Sister Sage's Musings » flying monkeys http://sistersagesmusings.ca Center-left blog from Canadians across the country and beyond Thu, 04 Jul 2013 02:46:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 New shiny object: the word “barbaric” http://sistersagesmusings.ca/2011/03/16/new-shiny-object-the-word-barbaric/ http://sistersagesmusings.ca/2011/03/16/new-shiny-object-the-word-barbaric/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:20:42 +0000 Orwell's Bastard http://sistersagesmusings.ca/?p=6975 Oh dear. Justin Trudeau seems to have made a boo-boo – er, gotten tangled up in the semantic weeds (Cue the Jesus Facepalm).

Watch as the Conservative Attack ParrotsTM crank up the squawking and the national conversation gets sidetracked into a giant foofaraw about honour killings.

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