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Mark after the Parade
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Isn’t Mark adorable?
I had a fun, but exhausting Pride weekend. Check out all of my Pride Sunday photos at Flickr.
June 2008
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Mon 30 Jun 2008
After the Parade
Posted by Big Fat Hairy Dave at 5:05 pm under Miscellaneous Ramblings
5 Comments
Thu 26 Jun 2008
Wisdom from Livejournal
Posted by Big Fat Hairy Dave at 2:23 pm under Politics and Web links
15 Comments
Thu 26 Jun 2008
So that’s what it’s like to be ooooold
Posted by Big Fat Hairy Dave at 9:01 am under Queer
3 Comments
Shorter Margaret Wente: Damn gays! Get off my lawn!
Tue 24 Jun 2008
Mark
Posted by Big Fat Hairy Dave at 12:36 pm under Pictures
4 Comments
Mon 23 Jun 2008
Pride Week
Posted by Big Fat Hairy Dave at 2:13 pm under News and Toronto
No Comments
Sat 21 Jun 2008
City of Toronto employees sure work hard
Posted by Big Fat Hairy Dave at 4:54 pm under Interesting Happenings
2 Comments
Walking along Wellesley Street this morning, I saw a dead cat lying in front of a city trash can, blood pouring from its head. I walked to the corner and got the attention of City of Toronto street litter collector and said “I don’t know if you’re the right person, but there’s a dead cat in front of a city trash can just along Wellesley.” His response: “If I’m not the right person, why would you ask me?” What an asshole. Maybe because I thought you’d call the right person?
Thu 19 Jun 2008
Stay classy, Conservatards
Posted by Big Fat Hairy Dave at 10:00 am under Politics
One Comment
Ah, Vic Toews. What can I say about him? He’s so conservative that he’s been dubbed the Minister of Family Values by opposition parties — not that his firm belief in the sanctity of marriage stopped him from cheating on his wife of 30 years and knocking up a Conservative party staffer. And he’s really classy too: the other day in the House of Commons, he called former Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour “a disgrace”. But who is Vic Toews to call Louise Arbour a disgrace? Let’s compare the two, why don’t we?
| Louise Arbour | Vic Toews |
|---|---|
| Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada | Former provincial cabinet minister and currently president of the Treasury Board |
| As Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, indicted Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes | As Manitoba Justice Minister, was responsible for a gang hotline that traced supposedly anonymous calls and that went unanswered for months |
| Current United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights | Homophobe who voted against extending hate crime protection to gays and lesbians |
| Criticized election violence in Zimbabwe and urged authorities to conduct free and fair elections | Has a criminal record for having violated election laws in the 1999 Manitoba election by exceeding campaign expense limits |
| “Freedom of religion includes the freedom to not be required to live by someone else’s view of morality” |
Believes that that religious organizations should be permitted to deny gay organizations the use of their facilities |
| Early in her career worked for the Law Commission of Canada, a highly respected independent legal research agency | Abolished it |
| Called a disgrace by Vic Toews | Is one |
Tue 17 Jun 2008
Irrationality
Posted by Big Fat Hairy Dave at 11:31 am under News
6 Comments
The next time someone says that psychics, astrologers, and tarot card readers are harmless, tell them the story of Colleen Leduc:
Leduc’s weird tale began on May 30, when she dropped young Victoria off for class at Terry Fox Elementary and headed in to work, only to receive a frantic phone call from the school telling her it was urgent she come back right away.
The frightened mother rushed back to the campus and was stunned by what she heard - the principal, vice-principal and her daughter’s teacher were all waiting for her in the office, telling her they’d received allegations that Victoria had been the victim of sexual abuse - and that the CAS had been notified.
How did they come by such startling knowledge? Leduc was incredulous as they poured out their story.
“The teacher looked and me and said: ‘We have to tell you something. The educational assistant who works with Victoria went to see a psychic last night, and the psychic asked the educational assistant at that particular time if she works with a little girl by the name of “V.” And she said ‘yes, I do.’ And she said, ‘well, you need to know that that child is being sexually abused by a man between the ages of 23 and 26.’”
Why are people infantile enough to believe in psychics allowed to teach children?
Tue 17 Jun 2008
Sex before marriage
Posted by Big Fat Hairy Dave at 11:00 am under Miscellaneous Ramblings and Sex
10 Comments
Staying a virgin so that your “first time” is “special” is like saying “My boyfriend and I love cakes. I want to give him the gift of a delicious cake that I’ve baked myself. I want that first cake to be really special, so I’ll save the cake for our wedding night. I will not bake a cake ever, and the first cake I ever bake will be on our wedding night.” And then, of course, the cake turns out like a brick.