After this year's performance, highlighted by an irresponsible nuclear trade pact with India, efforts to not hold companies like Blackfire accountable for their crimes, a truly bed-wetting performance at the Copenhagen Climate summit, and a refusal to be accountable on Afghan torture allegations, the Prince of Prorogue Steve Harper will have a lot to answer for in the new year.

Anti-Olympic Torch marchers and their demands for indigenous rights, social justice, and free speech are the cause of the latest epidemic of "spastic delirium" and "verbal diarrhea" in BC newsrooms, production studios and even the Legislature, reports say.

Please join us in supporting ex-hockey player and struggling Vancouver Island resort developer Len Barrie. This week, we inducted Barrie into the WTF? Hall of Flame and awarded him the first annual West Coast Wetiko Prize.

If you really want to survive the coming economic crunch you might get some pointers from the Indigenous population of the America's. For over 500 years we’ve lived in abject poverty, given promises and false hope and left with nothing in return. Our ways were taken from us and we live in squalor for the most part. Some call us a conquered people, others call us freeloaders but in all reality we are survivors of a regime who used lies and deception to take our land and natural resources. Now, it’s your turn, eh?

Your dream vacation awaits you in the "other" Alberta. While most tourists know Alberta for its rodeos and mountain views, new oilier destinations are expanding now. Come frolic on the black sand beaches! Paraglide the methane gas updrafts over tailing ponds the size of 12,000 football fields! Try your hand at water diversion surfing!

Every four years or so the hen house at Lake Pottahwuattabe hosts an
open house for its stockholders' annual general meeting.
One year some animal rights' activists disrupted the proceedings and
in the ensuing mischief ................

Comparable to carbon offsetting (and making just as much sense), Cheat Neutral provides a framework for you to offset unavoidable cheating on your partner.

"Cheatneutral offsets your cheating by funding someone else to be faithful and NOT cheat. This neutralises the pain and unhappy emotion [you cause] and leaves you with a clear conscience."

As friends leave her state-subsidized seniors’ building, “Goodbye for now” becomes goodbye forever. Afraid to die alone, Zophia Žvirgzdas hunts for the perfect gay grandson. Can a topless walkathon, a marriage proposal, or the misadventures of a seeing-eye monkey distract her from her pursuit of progeny? Will the Angel of Death convince her that life is for the living – before it’s too late?

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[Forward by Joan Malerich]

CNN has Norman Solomon on to talk about the vices of GE-owned NBC. But, Solomon doesn't stop with NBC, he heads on to ABC and eventually hangs out CNN's dirty laundry.

Anarchist action figures were discretely placed on store shelves at Target and Wal-Mart stores across San Francisco, waiting for unsuspecting consumers to pick them up this holiday season.

[Thanks to the anonymous person who posted this. You made my day! -ron]

This is a special edition of these nominations. They all have to do with religion...Here, then, are the real Assholes of the Week. Amen.

Top 10 reasons B.C. MLA's deserve a 29 per cent pay raise and average of $800,000 in retroactive pension benefits.

Robert Newman: History of OilRobert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years - but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at school, the places oil centre stage as the cause of all commotion.

This innovative history programme is based around Robert Newman's stand-up act and supported by resourceful archive sequences and stills with satirical impersonations of historical figures from Mayan priests to Archduke Ferdinand. Quirky details such as a bicycle powered street lamp on the stage brings home the pertinent question of just how we are going to survive when the world's oil supplies are finally exhausted.

Highly recommended!

ONCE UPON A TIME, there was a cloud who was very tiny and very lonely and used to stray far from the big clouds. She was very little, barely a wisp of a cloud. And whenever the big clouds made themselves rain so as to paint the mountains green, the little cloud would come flying to offer her services. But they scorned her because she was so small.