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I Shaved My Head When Robert Stanfield Died

"...because Canadian politics is a baffling mystery that, when explained, still doesn't make sense, and has no bearing on anything." -Commenter on a Diefenbaker YTMND I made

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

HuffPost's Real Misery Index: Recalculating The Hard Times


It's an interesting metric Huffpo, but it's very middle-class centric. Your misery index doesn't take into account wages, income gaps, the working poor. It doesn't show the people who are working 60 hour weeks and bashing their head against the wall trying to make ends meet and actually succeeding, or workplace fatalities, postponed doctor visits, or any actual measure of waged income, just how tightly it's rationed. To borrow from RFK: The misery index measures all the terrible things happening in the economy except those that most frequently happen and hurt the most.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Monday, July 13, 2009

To www.antimisandry.com Seriously guys, you're not helping.

After some general e-battling on Huffington Post and doing some research, I've begun to wonder: Where in the hell are the articulate, liberally educated and complex-minded anti-misandrysts out there. Where's the scotch swilling man's man of a masculist who'll be in favor of sexual freedoms, opposed to homophobia and transphobia and ready to point out the cold hatred that spews from the pens of tenured professors like Janice G. Raymond? Where are the actual egalitarians out there beyond Nathanson and Young? We need your help people. Male post-secondary enrollment is down to 42%, there's legitimate evidence in the latest US census, that among Single people of similar experience and education, that the wage gap is going the other way. There are significant legal, political, and social inequities that are being built as an edifice of empowerment and the tipping point is being reached, and nobody is around to intelligently build a coalition of the egalitarians, reform and classical liberals, classical conservatives, and counter-cultural modernists into opposing the entrenchment of these barriers.

To wit: Give me an articulate left-wing anti-misandryst! Give her tenure! Give him a lecture series, a seat in parliament, a chair opposite Keith Olbermann! Give her a fourth party presidential run! Give him a New York Times Best Seller! Give her cohorts and a whole intellectual tendency, please!

Anyway, so ends my complaining, but that's an issue that's always nagged at me, one that'd get me back into party politics, one that would bring me back to academia. Give me someone to follow in this regard with some actual credibility, who'll make a political career over this.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Kids recant abuse claims after dad jailed 20 years


The same reason some people plead guilty to murders they don't commit. And because having your children testify against you might be considered traumatic, you know, the same reason people want rape shield laws, basically to weaken the court system to prevent aggravating an already traumatic situation.



How about you watch this documentary on Frontline for some answers on why 90% of all cases don't get to trial?



http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/plea/view/



ShakeYourComplacency. I'm officially becoming your new best friend. You're not going to be able to spread this kind of circular, blame-the-victim misandry unchallenged. Quoth the president: Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
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