No E-mails please
on Nov 21, 2009Damn - I see that the good Doctor beat me to it! Well, since we are all talking about the hacked e-mails from the CRU, I suppose I should post about it as well. There are three points that I want to raise.First, I think this is one of the most desp...

The Maple Leafs
on Nov 21, 2009...forever.A couple of winters ago we had more snow in Ottawa than most folks could remember. We suffered, and shoveled, and grumbled, as windrows grew to twenty feet or so. Then we learned that we were literally inches from the all-time snowfall rec...

The Great Global Warming Conspi...whoops
on Nov 21, 2009One of the usual dolts asks, "Where's Dawg?"Here I am, after faithfully observing the 24-hour rule. Don't you wish you and your cadre of bloviating denialists had done the same?You've had your day. Great big searchable files. Where's the smoke? Where...

Conservative Party logo, updated
on Nov 21, 2009[H/t]...

Ñakaq attack
on Nov 20, 2009A bizarre story out of Peru today--with the backstory almost entirely missing, and the lede truly buried.Police say a gang in the Peruvian jungle has been killing people and draining fat from the corpses to sell on the black market for use in cosmeti...

Brother Gil
on Nov 20, 2009I can't add a single word to this moving tribute to my union brother (although sometimes he seemed more like an uncle) Gil Levine, a legendary trade unionist in these parts.A mensch indeed. Rest easy, old friend.

Man with a conscience
on Nov 19, 2009Everything has by now been dragged into the sunlight. The Harper government, beyond all reasonable doubt, has been complicit in the torture of Afghan civilians, and the Canadian Forces' leadership and assorted conniving bureaucrats have joined this g...

Torturegate: the Liberal leader's vanishing act
on Nov 19, 2009The Liberals drop the ball again.The Invisible Man is too busy reconnecting, it seems, even if he never actually connected in the first place. His descent into utter irrelevance continues.

There ain't no-flys on me
on Nov 18, 2009...yet.For the gentle folks who wondered if I was overreacting by suing for a retraction recently, this news:Transport Canada maintains its own no-fly list. The people in charge of your fate consist of a troika of representatives from CSIS, the RCMP...

Trash talk
on Nov 17, 2009Those pesky opponents of the foreign occupation of Afghanistan are due once again, it seems, for a ritual denunciation, and a couple of bloggers, Terry "War is not the answer" Glavin and one who shall remain nameless, have mounted their Stalinist pod...