Jonathan McLeod
Jonathan McLeod is a writer living in Ottawa, Ontario. (That means Canada.) He spends too much time following local politics and writing about zoning issues. Follow him on Twitter.
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Wait, they're arguing that the prisoners in El Salvador are no longer under US control? That they ar…on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Well I suppose making everyone hate us in one way to encourage world peace
on Trump’s Most Insidious Scheme (So Far)You can if you want... although this kind of stuff is the big reason I didn't vote for him. At some…
on Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came ForApparently, you have to keep an eye out for the guy who loftily explains that the time for argument…
on Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came ForNot to our general liking. We are stuck between a rock and a hard place because much of the further…
on Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came ForAnd yet Trump seems to be speaking for you quite regularly.
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Meh, another tempest in a teapot by folks that can’t or won’t use the English language correctly. Kind of like folks that object to the word niggardlyReport
So we can put you down for the pro-rape crowd? Why am I not surprised…Report
Being a republican, I certainly am.Report
I brought this up in a post a while back..over a year…and wasn’t believed…until I posted a Wash Post link to the story about a guy using niggardly in a meeting and being suspended/fired.Report
Please tell me this isn’t going to be one of those threads where folks point to a guy who called his white co-workers cheapskates but found an archaic synonym that sounds like an ethnic slur for his black co-worker, and say “this proves liberals are wrong”Report
Actually, he said it to a group of black people and one took offense. Demands were made. He was fired. He was offered his job back when the “full investigation” determined that he used the word “niggardly” not “the n word”. It’s a nice intersection of ignorance, racism, bloated outrage, and entitlement politics. Your nation’s capital.Report
Al Jourgensen could not be reached for comment.Report
There’s a reason the Knack named it “My Canola”.Report
@mike-schilling
Don’t plant the seeds of bad jokes.Report
Great. Now I’ve got Stigmata stuck in my head.Report
I remember when I learned this was the source of the album name.
“Can’t POSSIBLY be true”, I thought.Report
If the Washington NFL team were called the Rapists, not only would they not change it, they’d insist that most women didn’t find it offensive.Report
. . . and then the fans would come up with a “cheer” consisting of mimicking . . .Report
Mike
We could call them the washington strawmen in honor of your nonsensical post.Report
I believe the Washington Strawmen prefer to be called the Generals.Report
Funny thing is I can totally see a city naming it after real rape, cause you know, all those indigenous peoples getting raped a killed during the white migration and such…Report
Don’t you mean because they keep on raping the women now?
There are funny laws about Indian property, and there’s more than one small town thinks they got the right to rape women.
Oh, no, the bastards weren’t too happy when someone decided to set up a women’s shelter.
So unhappy they dared to burn the place down…Report
Ortega famously argues that the state originated out of rape and abduction.Report
I’m glad we kicked his ass out of Nicaragua.Report
We almost got Missouri Loves Company as a slogan.
It made it into the final round, it did.Report
Solution – give Salt-N-Peppa honorary citizenship and make the slogan “Land of Rappin’ Honeys”.Report
Also, from the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board c. 20 or 25 years ago.
http://www.funnysigns.net/files/pork-love-400×269.jpgReport
They should get together with these people.Report
They should change rape to rapeseed to clarify for all they poorly educated folks out there. It’s sad that folks have been dumbed down so much. It’s also sad that Canada isn’t immune from this growing phenomenon.Report
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As I noted last time, because of your past your leash is shorter than most when you try to push the envelope like that. Come back in three weeks.Report
And this is why it’s called canola now.Report
@katherinemw
Canola and rape are not the same. Canola is rape that has been bred so that its oil has different properties.Report
They’re very similar, though, and they did change the name for PR/sales reasons so that they wouldn’t be selling it as “rapeseed”.Report