If this story is correct, Nova Scotians should be deeply, deeply embarrassed by their government: A transgender man in Nova Scotia has filed a human rights complaint after he was handed a $3,400 bill for a hysterectomy that he claims was… Continue Reading
Charles Lewis, writing in National Post, on his run-in with the Secret Service: I happily told the agent all about Seth, and what an idiot he was, and how he once got his younger brother to jump out of a… Continue Reading
At Blinded Trials (probably my favourite sub-blog here at the League), Rose has a post up titled, Why male circumcision is (sometimes) morally kosher. I could not disagree more (keeping in mind that we’re talking about routine infant circumcision –… Continue Reading
National Post‘s Jonathan Kay has some interesting thoughts on the Derb and The Talk: This is not ordinary racism. It is more interesting and antique than that: explicitly racialist in substance, but also ornamented with editorial grace notes and exhortations… Continue Reading
With Rick Santorum out, the Mitt Romney nomination is even more of a done deal. It seems to me that Romeny has left everyone feeling a little underwhelmed, so… Yes. This was just an excuse to post the video. I… Continue Reading
Friday brought great news. Hélène Campbell (whom I wrote about in January) received a double lung transplant. She had been waiting for such a transplant for months and, recently, it had been reported that before the surgery, her lungs were functioning… Continue Reading
Stumbling through the Canadian blogosphere today, I found this post by Maclean’s Jaime Weinman, responding to Rose’s post arguing that Classic TV is Bad TV. A trailer: The TV drama era that started with Twin Peaks and culminated in The… Continue Reading
Following up on Murali’s post from last week, Jenna Talackova is (potentially) back in the Miss Canada competition: Beauty queen Jenna Talackova, who was kicked out the Miss Universe Canada competition last month, will be allowed to compete after all,… Continue Reading
Dan Gardner disects a recent Team Obama video, The Road We’ve Travelled, and suggests its core message is unlikey to resonate: The strategy here is not to say “maybe things aren’t so good but they’re better than they were.” That’s… Continue Reading