Weekly roundup: November 21-27

Articles

When did the GOP lose touch with reality? from NY Magazine

Charity Intelligence: Transparent on Transparency? from Charity Village

Why not supply management for automobiles? from Ottawa Citizen

Buy nothing, except the counterculture ideal from Ottawa Citizen [You can read Andrew Potter and Joseph Heath’s The Rebel Sell (2004) for further critique of counterculture]

Polygamy [is] closer to home than we think from The Globe and Mail

A proposal for the House and the Senate from threehundredandeight.com

Beau’s beer delivery plan nixed by complaint from Ottawa Citizen

Pilot manoeuvre averted disaster at Pearson from Toronto Star

Defensiveness not helping CBC/Radio-Canada from Toronto Star

We have as many double standards on polygamy as Solomon had wives from The Globe and Mail

The direct approach isn’t always most effective from The Globe and Mail

Tweets

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-11-21T21:17:47.000Z. Aunt Diane (@YourAuntDiane). Looking for a great vegan Thanksgiving dessert? Breathe onto some river stones until they get hot and serve with one raspberry..

You want to know what the greatest contempt of Parliament is? Not taking the time to understand how it is supposed to operate. #cdnpoli

— Philippe Lagassé (@pmlagasse) November 22, 2011

Let's have a show of hands. How many of you were planning on marrying a bunch more people if the ban on polygamy had been struck down?

— Dan Gardner (@dgardner) November 23, 2011

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-11-13T23:34:30.000Z. Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon). The road to economic ruin is a preoccupation with the welfare of producers  at the expense of consumers..

^ The above tweet is out of context, but some times it is just better that way.

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-11-21T21:17:47.000Z. Aunt Diane (@YourAuntDiane). Looking for a great vegan Thanksgiving dessert? Breathe onto some river stones until they get hot and serve with one raspberry..

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-11-26T17:30:02.000Z. Greg MacEachern (@gmacofglebe). I heard today the universe is expanding. In THIS economy?.

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