Although I continue to post here at the God’s Politics blog on occasion, and I believe in the power and potential of the blogosphere, I share my friends’ frustration with the kind of disrespectful dialogue that frequently ensues in the comments section of so many blogs. The majority want to have substantive and respectful dialogue, [...]

Is anyone able give me a link to where Halton MP Garth Turner personally says:
Garth Turner says his webcast is downloaded by about 30,000 to 40,000 viewers every night.
That is the sub head on an article in The Hill Times about Bruce Sutherland, a free lance video technician who has been producing MPtv. Can’t [...]

Alan Chambers directs Exodus International, widely described as the nation’s largest ex-gay ministry. But when he addresses the group’s Freedom Conference at Concordia University in Irvine this month, Chambers won’t celebrate successful “ex-gays.”
Truth is, he’s not sure he’s ever met one.
With years of therapy, Chambers says, he has mostly conquered his own attraction to men; [...]

Lawrence Martin - Globe and Mail
Members of Parliament head off for a three-month break this week. Animal house mercifully shuts down, not to be reconvened until late September.
The consensus around the capital is that this session ranks as one of the more ugly ones, which is saying a lot.
Rancour ruled. No one ended up looking [...]

The General’s Report: How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties.
In The New Yorker.
They knew.
They lied.
Mainstream Baptist:

This administration’s debasement of the public trust and its criminal contempt for even the most basic human rights and decency, as revealed in this article, ought to prompt righteous indignation in every American. [...]

As of today if you plan to board a commercial flight in Canada, you are checked off against Canada’s new no-fly list. Federal authorities say there are ‘only’ about 1 thousand names on it (which airlines haven’t seen yet) but since this was done by regulation (not by legislation) your name could be on it.
No-fly [...]

Brilliant of The Guardian to live blog this.
10.23pm: This final half hour has fallen on its arse. But brilliant comment from one of the Kombat Breakers “I can’t imagine meeting the Queen. I got starstuck meeting Ant and Dec and Simon Cowell”. Well, he said it. Everyone in ecstasy about potentially meeting the Queen. I [...]

via: The Tea Makers
CBC News has hired this firm to revamp, er CBC news. This is depressing.
Bleck.
You’d think I could come up with something intelligent and rational, but I can’t because I have a visceral response to these kinds of decisions.  
I hate this.
I hate this when people in offices worrying about branding and how news departments [...]