Life in the Atomic Age

My Adoptive Country Sees the Light

Reality is a cruel, cruel mistress.

Ottawa — As greenhouse gas emission levels in Canada climb, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose says it’s time for the federal government to scrap its Kyoto plan and think about something new.

“We’re looking at all options,” she said yesterday, making it clear the Conservatives think it will take a lot longer [...]

Exactly

Or, why I left academia.

“Today’s youth don’t have dreams, they have illusions. To dream is to want to accomplish something difficult that is a challenge. Instead youngsters believe they have a right to everything and if things don’t go the way they want it’s someone else’s fault.”

Laugh all you want about the “lazy” French youths [...]

Sunrise, Rocky Mountain Variant

The view from the back deck at sunrise.

Scene from the front yard

A mother and son stroll through the woods at the front of our house (the bull calf is the one you can see).

How “brave” is Hollywood?

“Meanwhile, Theo van Gogh remains dead.”

WOW

Do you have cajones this big?

And notice the enlightened “rebuttal” - you are a blasphemer not worthy of rebuke. Sounds like what passes for political discourse in the US, eh?

What does a martyr look like?

Perhaps something like this

Another Utopian Holy Grail

Dies a slow, painful death.

But a Supreme Court ruling last June — it found that a Quebec provincial ban on private health insurance was unconstitutional when patients were suffering and even dying on waiting lists — appears to have become a turning point for the entire country.

Savor the delicious Irony

One wonders if people who throw the word fascist around so freely actually have any idea what it means. Any idea at all.

Via.

Another Persepctive on the Cartoon Frenzy.

Guess where the fault really lies. Go on, just guess.

Follow the link.

As a Cowboys fan, can I just say

Worst. Superbowl. Officiating. Ever.

Maybe there’s some remnant of the old Cowboy-Steelers rivalry coloring my thoughts, but I felt that the officiating was horrendous, completely slanted in favor of the Steelers, and directly determined the outcome of the game.

UPDATE:

From the Foxsports website:

Apparently a lot of you agree.

Who is Vincent Gallo?

The things you find on the internets.

If you don’t know - this is Vincent Gallo.

You can buy his sperm for $1,000,000 - as long as you have the right, um, “qualifications”.

SO many things wrong with the concept

You don’t even know where to begin, ya know?

I’m assuming that the artist won’t have to worry about suffering a similar fate to Theo van Gogh, however.