Sunday Linkblast - July 29

• Here we go, here we go, here we go...
  Byelections are like exhibition games for politics junkies.
  
  
• Would you like to reconsider your bullshit statement? Sir?
  At this point, God help me, Gonzales makes Edwin Meese look good. At least ol' Porny McHatey knew when the writing was on the wall.
  
  
• Dow Jones may be slipping out of Murdoch's fingers
  The Bancroft family rebels.
  
  
• Warren Ellis is liveblogging Nerd Prom
  From out of the floods of England, Ellis has arrived in the insane heat of San Diego for it's infamous Comicon. I think he's hitting Arizona too. Let's watch as the lack of sleep and Comicon's weirdness makes his postings more and more hallucinatory...Read Crooked Little Vein.
  
  
• The Weekly American Editorial Cartoons
  From Bob Geiger.
  
  
• Never Get Busted, gets busted
  Ex-cop threatens blogger who gave his DVD a bad review with a lawsuit.
  
  
• Yes he was crazy, but the Tories can keep the money.
  Millionaire leaves millions to the British Conservative Party to aid in the fight against sexually perverted pharmaceutical company executives out to destroy "freedom, democracy and human purity". The court rules that yes he was crazy but giving to the Tories isn't, necessarily... um..., OK, case dismissed.
  
  
• Ecological disaster? What ecological disaster?
  Contractor responsible for Vancouver spill isn't taking questions.
  
  
• Chickens come home to roost
  The decline in Alberta's health care quality had a political motive as Ralph Klein pushed hard to dismantle the public system. For awhile the public still bought the people who caused it, decrying the system's deterioration. Are you ready to place some blame Albertans? 'Cause now's the fucking time. Hat tip to Eugene.
  
  
• Canada drops Sikh name change policy
  Really, how could they not?
  
  
• Another Insurgency
  Two hundred years ago the first successful slave rebellion took place when the African population of Saint Domingue defeated and expelled their white rulers and Haiti was born. Numbers and guerrilla tactics beat advanced technology and training. Millenarian Voudon was a precipitating factor. It all ended in tears and the perpetuation of misery but it changed the equation and laid the groundwork for the spirit of revolution that helped end the colonial era.