Cathie from Canada

Emily Yoffe (Dear Prudence) on the difference between phoning and texting : I think the world is beginning to divide into two groups of peop...

Right-wing anti-Obama journalist John Perry says if Obama doesn't give the generals more troops for Afghanistan, he should be afraid of ...

Nancy Nall says Roman Polanski is guilty, guilty, guilty. The older I get, the more com­fort­able I am with sit­u­a­tions that are muddy, co...

Rabble is running a poll: What was the most disturbing thing that came out of the G20 meetings in Pittsburgh last week? --The heavy-handed p...

Whenever Iran or the Middle East are in the news, I go to Juan Cole to see what he is saying about it. In his piece about Iran's Qom Enr...

Huffington Post has as its headline today " THE NUKES OF SEPTEMBER along with a photo of a bomb being launched. Glenn Greenwald point...

Well, we don't have to wait any longer to see someone from the Bush administration prosecuted for torture -- it was on tonight's La...

When I was a teenager, it was conventional wisdom that Canada was always several years behind the States in terms of things like fashions an...

So I have some new links on the blogroll - to the right, under (you guessed it) New Links. Here's why I like Nancy Nall -- she begins on...

Digby describes what differentiates the American right wingers: ...the Religious Right operates out of fear of sex, while the Populist Righ...

Firedoglake is off my blogroll. Sadly, I have reached my limit of tolerance with the Obama-trashing commenters on this site. Want examples? ...

In British Columbia, they're marching in the streets against the HST, the so-called "harmonized sales tax". In Ontario, the ...

So often we think, I'm only one person so what can I do? Well, Christopher Reeve broke his neck in 1995 and died in 2004, but research ...

When I read this tragic story I realized again that just being a teenager can be a death-defying act. Our kids did some pretty dumb things...

Good - Trudeau, Tewksbury among first inductees into Queer Hall of Fame Bad -- the latest from Afghanistan Ugly - Brian Mulroney's long ...