Ontario's Progressive Conservatives Steal Parental Guidance Logo

Last night, Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leader John Tory unveiled his party's new logo. It's origin seems strikingly obvious:



Parental Guidance. Yep, that about says it.

Christianity and the Borg

I was visiting a top-notch blog (http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com) which used the following painting of the "Virgin" Mary with the baby Jesus in a piece about a sex-toy shop for Christians. Now, you tell me: was the guy who came up with the Borg making a comment about Christianity?:


Borg Queen: "Resistance is futile"

Christianity's Mary: "Reason is futile"

Happy 230th, USA!!

Happy birthday America! I could do no better, on this important day, than to quote Thomas Jefferson:

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government...

...We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...

Or, to hear and see the entire Declaration read aloud by some familiar actors (it's quite moving, despite the fact that some of the actors doing the reading are, in truth, collectivists who, as such, could not possibly believe in individual rights as described in the Declaration):

Declaration of Independence Performance DOWNLOAD VIDEO (QUICKTIME): 56k 100k 250k DOWNLOAD VIDEO (WINDOWS MEDIA):56k 100k 250k DOWNLOAD VIDEO (REAL MEDIA): 56k 100k 250k "Produced by Norman Lear and Rob Reiner, and hosted by Morgan Freeman, this dramatic reading of the Declaration of Independence features actors Mel Gibson, Michael Douglas, Kevin Spacey, Whoopi Goldberg, Ed Norton, Benicio Del Toro, Renee Zellweger, and Winona Ryder."

...This is your Brain on the Sun

I write, today, at the great risk of looking like a guy who teases the mentally challenged. Here it goes anyway...

Garbage in, garbage out. If you are looking to spout garbage, I've got just the raw input that you need. A confusing, unprincipled, idea jumble, which is disguised as an editorial in today's Toronto Sun Newspaper.

Today's Sun "editorial" is titled Don't ban radical imam, expose him. "Good headline", I thought to myself, knowing that it concerns calls, by some, to prevent an English Imam from visiting Toronto to give a speech on Islam. The usual suspects are all lined up like attendees to a witch-burning, cheering "burn him, burn him"...er, maybe that was "ban him, ban him".

Photo from the most recent
Witch-burning rally I attended

In any event, the experience of reading this editorial is perhaps similar to that of listening to a person who has just downed about 1/2 of a 40 ouncer....or who advocates continued public funding for education. Just try to make sense out of THIS train of thought:

"Haq, who denigrates moderate Muslims, Jews, Hindus, homosexuals and others, has been invited by the Islamic Foundation of Toronto to speak to a conference of Muslim youth.

It's not clear whether he'll show up (other planned appearances in Canada have been cancelled) but in any event, The Muslim Canadian Congress, Canadian Jewish Congress, Hindu Dharma Mission and Egale Canada want him banned.

...as far as we can tell, Haq has never been convicted of hate speech or inciting violence. On that basis, we do not believe he should be barred from Canada...

...banning Haq could create the false impression, particularly among young Muslims, that we fear his absurd ideas.

The way to deal with such fanatics is to refute them...

Finally, if the police have grounds to suspect anyone may engage in unlawful speech, we urge them to attend [Haq's speech in Canada] as well.

The lesson to be drawn from all of this?

This is your brain.


This is your brain on the Toronto Sun.

Just say "No, I would not like a free, complimentary copy" to mediocre newspapers...on second thought, one exception: "...unless it has a Sunshine Girl in it".

Now, back to work, where I can forget my shame for reading that editorial...but not for seeing Lisa Anne on the third from last page ;-)

Colonel Sanders to Sue Ontario Government?

Word has it that the estate of the late Colonel Sanders is about to sue for trademark infringement by the government of Ontario (Canada). Ontario, which announced yesterday that it has spent $219,000.00 for a redesign of the provincial government's trillium flower label, is alleged to have simply cut and paste it from a special part of the the stylized artwork of the Colonel's face, found on the side of the Colonel's chicken packaging: his facial hair.

Exhibit 1, below. Remember, you heard it here first.

Above: The colonel next to his
trademark packaging artwork.

Ontario's new $219,000.00 provincial
government trillium flower logo (see
Colonel's facial hair in the photo above)

Wilde about Truth and Lies

The person who voices truth is indeed a lonely person most of the time, because so many people have no motivation to question what is false. Tax returns were due today (in Canada, for self-employed persons) so, rightly feeling raped by a government the very power of which is founded on a lie, I share with you the words of one who described some of the most moving truths about truth and falsehood: Oscar Wilde...

"A thing is not necessarily true
because a man dies for it."

Religious Suicide Bomber

"Truth is what's left over
when you run out of lies."

The semen-stained dress of Monica Lewinsky(courtesy of arch-half-truth-teller Bill Clinton)

"The pure and simple truth is
rarely pure and never simple."

Charles Darwin.

"Beware the half truth: you
may have gotten the wrong half."

"I did not have sex with that woman...Monica Lewinsky"
("sex", Clinton explained, means sexual intercourse...
whereas clinton merely received a blow-job and
penetrated Lewinsky with a cigar)

"As long as the truth is naked,
men will continue to
take liberties with her."

Neurologist Wilder Penfield. His research provided evidencethat thought is the product of the brain, not of a mystical soul.
Yet, closer to the grave, he allowed for mystical interpretations ofhis research.

"Man is least himself when he
talks in his own person. Give him
a mask and he will tell the truth."

"Deep Throat", a.k.a. W. Mark Felt

"If one tells the truth, one is sure,
sooner or later, to be found out."

Galileo, who demonstrated that the Earthrotates about the Sun, rather than vice versa, and who suggested that the Catholic church was "Simplicio" about the subject.

"Lie and the world lies with you;
tell the truth and the world lies about you."

Philosopher Ayn Rand,
who discovered and explained the proprietyof rational egoism.

Oscar Wilde