I’m posting this strictly for the lulz. Eric Dondero, a self-described libertarian Republican who once worked for Ron Paul, is spitting mad about President Obama’s victory. And when I say spitting mad, I mean that literally. If I meet a Democrat in my life from here on out, I will shun them immediately. I will [...]
Category Archives: Humour
Top 10 ways the Liberty Summer Seminar is better than Occupy Wall Street
Posted by Terrence Watson on November 11, 2011 13 comments
As many of you know, Peter Jaworski, editor and writer for The Volunteer, hosts a libertarian gathering on his family’s property each year. For more than ten years now, this event, the Liberty Summer Seminar (LSS), has brought people together from all over the world for a weekend of lecture, discussion, fine dining, and camping. It’s [...]
Horseshit with Jerry Agar
Posted by M.J. Sheppard on August 4, 2011 1 comment
Thanks to your friend and mine, the great Hugh MacIntyre, we learned yesterday that anyone with a talk radio show shouldn’t be listened to. I’ll be the first to concede that drugs addicts are notoriously brain-addled, but I couldn’t get through the first three paragraphs of Jerry Agar’s column without drinking. Or shooting up. Not [...]
Why I hope Harper gets his majority
Posted by Terrence Watson on April 5, 2011 7 comments
Because the disappointed cries of partisan knobs on both the left and the right is sweet music to my ears. The left will be disappointed when the Conservatives don’t build any concentration camps for gays, disabled people, and those whose names begin with the letter “L”. The right will be disappointed when the Conservatives fail [...]
Here for Canada bought by Liberal Party?
Posted by Peter Jaworski on April 4, 2011 1 comment
UPDATED BELOW I was checking our site stats, when I discovered that we were getting a lot of traffic from the somethingawful forum (a popular website), for this post that we put up in October of 2010. The post is about the fact that the Conservative Party had released a slogan — “Here for Canada” [...]
Moneygami or: How to put a hat on Lincoln
Posted by Peter Jaworski on February 10, 2011 Comments Off
Suppose you have money and nothing to spend it on. What should you do? Why not put a hat on the world leaders? Here’s Lincoln sporting a killer cap: Here’s Jefferson in a cap: ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
Sarah Palin is incoherent, confuses conservatives (updated)
Posted by Terrence Watson on February 7, 2011 Comments Off
There are two facts that are endlessly reaffirmed: (1) Sarah Palin is incoherent, and (2) Social conservatives are confused. At the same time, conservatives don’t often seem confused by Sarah Palin. No matter what nonsense leaves her mouth, they’ve tended to treat it like the softly decaying wisdom of zombie Ronald Reagan. Then, there is [...]
Australian comedian Steve Hughes on the CHRC
Posted by Peter Jaworski on February 6, 2011 1 comment
Okay, so he doesn’t mention the Canadian Human Rights Commission by name, but what the CHRC does is just what this heavy metal-loving funny man rips into. Enjoy: I think Steve Hughes might be a libertarian. Take a look at the rest of this particular skit, from which the above is an excerpt. He talks [...]
“Fox don’t do French”
Posted by Terrence Watson on February 5, 2011 3 comments
During a joint press conference with President Barack Obama yesterday, the Prime Minister was (I think) asked a question in French. As is custom, Stephen Harper gave his answer in the same language. Or maybe the French reporter specifically asked for a French reply. Apparently, Harper speaking French kind of freaked out Fox News’ presenter [...]
Headline Mishaps: Bill Blair appoints accused Nobody attackers his personal spokespersons
Posted by Mike Brock on December 10, 2010 Comments Off
The news editor was on a coffee break when this was posted, I think. ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
Our singing, dancing, piano playing prime minister
Posted by Peter Jaworski on December 9, 2010 3 comments
Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes me grumpy very often. It makes me sad to think that, once upon a time, he was a libertarian (although he told me he didn’t like that word and preferred “classical liberal”) and then, once in office, he went on a crazy spending spree, banned stuff, and is busy trying [...]
Andrew Cohen and the case of too much noise
Posted by Terrence Watson on December 7, 2010 Comments Off
Don’t you hate it when a writer uses plural pronouns like “we” and “our” throughout an article, as if describing a shared attitude or stance, when in reality he’s listening to his own voice echo off the walls of an empty room? Andrew Cohen, founding president of the Historica-Dominion Institute, writes like that. Except he [...]
Ayn Rand and freaking out
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on November 29, 2010 3 comments
Reason Magazine in its usual insightful way sums up my feelings towards Ayn Rand exactly: ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
Midnight musings: getting scanned by the man
Posted by Terrence Watson on November 26, 2010 3 comments
Tuesday, I flew from Ottawa to London, ON, via Toronto, in order to see a talk by Professor Jeffrey Goldsworthy at the University of Western Ontario’s law school. Great talk, which I’ll say more about later. For now, let me explain how I frustrated airport security without even trying. Airports are hideous places. Technologically, convenient [...]
How to deal with the media: Tell them you’re busy eating a cookie
Posted by Peter Jaworski on November 22, 2010 Comments Off
Is this a clip from Yes Minister? No, it’s a real-world example of how a politician ought to deal with the media. Here’s Dr. Steven Duckett, President and CEO Alberta Health Services responding to questions from media by chomping on a cookie: ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
My endorsement of Lord Voldemort
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on November 19, 2010 2 comments
For too long the Ministry of Magic has been encroaching on the lives of wizards and witches. It seems like the Ministry has laws controlling every aspect of day to day life and departments for every little detail of the wizardering world. Everything from telling wizards how they should travel to what potion ingredients they [...]
Everybody Ram It
Posted by Peter Jaworski on November 11, 2010 2 comments
UPDATED! This may be the greatest thing ever: This actually happened, in the real world. UPDATE: I’ve found a behind-the-scenes, making-of video which is really worth watching. It may be more significant and important than the video that resulted from all of the hours of tireless ramming: So did this, courtesy of the Miami Dolphins: [...]
The break up of the United States
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on November 4, 2010 2 comments
Peter Jaworski here at The Volunteer has been writing about what he terms micronations. Well it turns out that a poll recently conducted in the United States show that a surprisingly high number of Americans are in favor of breaking up the country into smaller bits: Among the 86 percent of poll respondents who were [...]
Is Obama a Keynesian, or was he born in Hawai’i?
Posted by Peter Jaworski on November 1, 2010 2 comments
Reason tv may have skewered the partisans, but The Partisans from Second City skewered the economic literacy of Rally for Sanity/Fear attendees this past weekend with a really clever bit. Apparently, you can’t be a Keynesian if you’re born in Hawai’i… Who knew? Check it out: (h/t Stephen Taylor) And, just in case you still [...]
Miniature trebuchet fires on flies and bees and bugs
Posted by Peter Jaworski on October 29, 2010 Comments Off
This is pretty amazing right here: ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail