le roncier

Le site de Fernande Bouvier, personnage principale d'Un capitalisme sentimental, dont la bande-annonce est visible en ligne. Séduisant. 

Le système électoral canadien ne connaît pas la proportionnelle. (Plus ici.) Selon FairVote.ca, suite aux récentes élections qui ont donné un gouvernement minoritaire à Harper (la situation à laquelle il tentait d'échapper par ailleurs), des milliers de votants ne sont pas représentés :

The chief victims of the October 14 federal election were:
- Green Party: 940,000 voters supporting the Green Party sent no one to Parliament, setting a new record for the most votes cast for any party that gained no parliamentary representation. By comparison, 813,000 Conservative voters in Alberta alone were able to elect 27 MPs.
- Prairie Liberals and New Democrats: In the prairie provinces, Conservatives received roughly twice the vote of the Liberals and NDP, but took seven times as many seats.
- Urban Conservatives: Similar to the last election, a quarter-million Conservative voters in Toronto elected no one and neither did Conservative voters in Montreal.
- New Democrats: The NDP attracted 1.1 million more votes than the Bloc, but the voting system gave the Bloc 50 seats, the NDP 37.

Copyright law must be changed. Here are just five changes that would make a world of difference: In Defense of Piracy, by Lawrence Lessig, co-founder of Creative Commons.

A Lebanese trade union is planning to sue Israel for claiming that the Jewish state has propriety over traditional Arab cuisine such as falafel, tabbouleh and hummus. Now it's war.

Le racisme latent pourrait coûter cher à Barack Obama. Ah... les petits arrangements avec soi-même dans le secret de l'isoloir.

Matthew Shepard : 1976-1998, sur Folk Furieuse. Je me souviens. Coco était au Canada, il m'avait raconté l'histoire de Matthew, j'en avais pleuré de rage. C'était vraiment la première fois où je me rendais compte qu'il y avait des gens suffisamment cons pour nous faire vraiment du mal. Je me sens bête de le dire, mais j'ai eu peur pour moi et pour mes amis. J'en avais même fait un article dans le journal du MAG. Ça fait déjà dix ans. Ça ne nous rajeunit pas. Mais on va pas se plaindre de vieillir et d'être en vie, n'est-ce pas ?

The can of mackerel is the new standard currency in US prisons. Weird. [via]

« Si le travail peut rendre malade, c'est parce qu'il nous construit » : Entretien de Rue89 avec Marie Pezé, psychologue et psychanalyste, auteur du livre « Ils ne mourraient pas tous mais tous étaient frappés, Journal de la consultation Souffrance et Travail (1997-2006) ».

I was reading the Fall TV Preview 2008 on EW, everything you need to know about the shows you need to watch, when I stumbled upon this : a real Megan Mullaly Alert in 30 Rock ! Hiiiiiiiiiii ! For the few straight people reading this, Megan was the much-loved Karen Walker in Will and Grace. And while you're at it, you can read this : Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert: Mock the Vote, where they re-create the controversial New Yorker cover illustration of Barack and Michelle Obama :

In the midst of re-creating the controversial New Yorker cover illustration of Barack and Michelle Obama for the cover photo that graces this week's print edition of Entertainment Weekly, Jon Stewart stops briefly to pose a taste question. As he stands by the catering table in secret Muslim garb, he ponders, Would it be weird to be dressed like this and have a bagel, salmon, and a schmear? Pseudo-blowhard Stephen Colbert has his own worries. Striking his best Michelle-as-Black-Panther pose, he glances at the original cartoon and realizes that he's hippier than the potential First Lady. Gesturing at his own waist, he moans, I could drop a baby like a peasant.

Not only funny, but also smart interview, as usual with those two. I love EW.

According to Michelangelo Signorile, Mark Buse, John McCain's chief of staff, is a gay man. John McCain is opposed to every single gay rights measure of recent years. More here.