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With thanks to Friendly Atheist.

As usual, Mr. Condell lunges straight for the jugular. You've gotta love it!


What a great image for a Tee-shirt.

Thanks to God is for Suckers!



With thanks to Pharyngula.

Thanks in part (1/2 exactly) to Richard Dawkins, justgiving.com have reached their goal of £11,000 with half that from Dawkins himself.

The aim of their campaign is to put advertisements on buses in the UK with the following message:

After hitting the front pages of various sites and their goal, donations have doubled in a single day to more than £ 25,000.00 as of this writing.

It's sad when a server has better uptime than Canadian Parliament. ~$300 million later and all that was done is a reboot of our government. Sigh.

This photograph is of the main room in U of T's multi-faith building/centre/whatever it is. The building (or maybe just interior space) was designed by Moriyama & Teshima, and I can say after having spent some time in the building this past summer, I'm officially a fan of theirs.

The image is from a few months ago when the building was pretty much deserted. I was out mapping GPS and Wifi points on campus and the Koffler Institute building (the multifaith centre now) was on my list. I had the place to myself for at least an hour. Wandering around and doing wifi scans, I saw someone had left this chair perfectly aligned with the wall panels in an otherwise empty room.

I didn't like this image at first, but I think the austerity and isolation of the chair sort of mirror my feelings about being in the building in the first place. I suppose I unconsciously rejected it at first because I'm not used to my photographs evoking my own emotions like that. It is interesting to hear what people have to say about the photograph without the personal context. For the most part feedback has been positive and to the effect that the feeling is of an aged photograph from the 50's or 60's.

Anyways, here it is:

I really don't think that most Canadians want Canada to become a right wing country. But this is what Stephen Harper wants; Harper's goal a right-wing Canada. We have to remember that Mr. Harper was one of the main players of the old Reform Party and his right wing ideology comes directly from the Reform Party handbook. And his senior cabinet ministers and insiders like Baird, Clement, Flaherty and Giorno all harken back to Mike Harris era Ontario. If Harper and his Conservative henchmen win a majority, here are some of the things that Canadians can expect to find on the agenda:

• More cuts to government services.
• Deregulation beneficial to corporate interests.
• Acquiescence to American interests.
• The selling out of our natural resources.
• Continued denial of environmental problems.
• Disproportionately harsher prison sentences.
• An increase in rates of incarceration.
• A for-profit privatized prison industry.
• Privatized health care.
• Re-opening of the abortion debate.
• A ban on same sex marriage.
• A Canadian "war on drugs".
• Further cuts to culture and arts funding.
• Increased military spending.
• A continued aggressive role for our military.

And we also mustn't forget that prominent evangelical Christian organizations have Mr. Harper's ear. What influence will the likes of "Dr." Charles McVety have on government policy when Harper has free rein? Will we see a new cabinet position for the administration of faith-based initiatives? It's not as far-fetched as it might sound as our American friends to the south have shown.

A majority win will allow Mr. Harper to re-mould our country into something that is not recognizable as the Canada we have come to know. All Canadians of voting age need to stand back, look at the big picture and ask themselves if this is what they really want.