::snicker::

Little bit of Parliamentary snark from MP Alexa McDonough, re the corporate liability bill passed last November, right before Paul Martin became prime minister:

My question to the hon. member is whether he shares the unease people feel that the government has already let this matter die twice on the Order Paper and that we now have a prime minister in waiting who is a corporate clone if there ever was one. Does he share the concern that Mr. CEO, who ... very likely will be the new prime minister, in fact is likely to put the corporate interests ahead of the interests of workers?

You go, girl :)

Oh, and there's an excerpt from the judicial inquiry into the Westray mine explosion that killed 26 workers. It was aptly titled "The Westray Story: A Predictable Path to Disaster", and it didn't pull any punches. Quote: "a story of incompetence, of mismanagement, of bureaucratic bungling, of deceit, of ruthlessness, of cover-up, of apathy, of expediency, and of cynical indifference".

geeking around...

Taking a break from my plunge into the world of corporate liability and exploding mines, I somehow ended up reading about Danny Pintauro, who was the little kid in Who's The Boss. Damn, I think I watched about three hours of that show in its 8-year run. You know, a few minutes here and there between commercials for shows I was actually watching.

Yeah, so I'm reading about Danny Pintauro (heathers, this may be your fault) and somehow I get to this link. Which I thought was pretty neat, so I'll post it: from The Advocate, Stars speak out against the Federal Marriage Amendment. Most were kind of no-brainers - Barbra Streisand, Yoko Ono and Cyndi Lauper are for gay rights? ::gasp:: What a shock!

But others were kind of cool. Ice-T. Itzhak Perlman. Flea. Peter, Paul, and Mary. Kris Kristofferson. Steven Page from the Barenaked Ladies. Neat.

( small Steven Page quote )

Oh, and while I've got heathers on my mind - thanks for the lj update on the game. I had no idea it was going on, but Justin asked to see Fantasia at dinner time and as I was fast-forwarding over the 'abstract' section at the beginning, we saw a bit of it. Justin immediately said, "Go Sens Go!" (except it came out more like Go Sams Go - he's only learned about hockey from the day care.) And Daniel asked me if Ed Belfour really was the best goalie ever. Thanks to you again, heathers, I was glad to be able to answer "I don't know, but he's pretty good," instead of Eddie Who?

Anyway, Daniel and I were kind of interested in it, but Chris and Justin were pretty blase, and Justin wanted me to put on his movie. So the score was 0-0 when I last saw it. I'll have to tell the boys the Sens didn't win after all.