Guess what day it is today?
I always thought it was very clever of my mother to have me and my twin sister on International Women’s Day, too.
Cathie from Canada
Leonard Nimoy
I don’t know where this is, but isn’t it great?It was posted on the #LeonardNimoy thread at Twitter, where William Shatner is doing a tribute. Saw this a few minutes…
Nestor does it again!
Daniel Nestor and Rohan Bopanna have won the Dubai doubles championship in straight sets, 6-4 and 6-1 Canada is always proud of you, Daniel!
Responsibility
So yesterday I got into an argument about who was responsible for the tragedy of two children dying while adults squabbled: While the house burned early Tuesday, the truck sat…
Brer Justin
Canada’s commentariat is going crazy over what a VERY BAD decision Justin Trudeau has made in welcoming Eve Adams to the party.But it wasn’t Adams that Trudeau wanted, it was…
Duffster puff
I know everyone is hyping the Duffy trial, but I think its likely going to be a big pile of nothing.For the life of me, I cannot see how Harper…
Tennis, anyone?
One of the great things about being retired is that I can stay up til 3 am watching the Australian Open, on TV or just tracking scores on my tablet…
New Year resolution
Our one-word resolution this year: Clean.We have had a difficult fall and winter due to dealing with the illness and long term care of a relative, including cleaning out a…
Happy 2015
Three Dog Night – Joy To The World – Live – YouTube:
So dumb that its a classic!
Tom and Lorenzo review the world’s dumbest Christmas movie: Musical Monday: White Christmas , with the worst costumes ever worn on a fake stage.
With A Little Help From My Friends
Joe Cocker, RIP — dead at 70 due to lung cancer.
Another outstanding Harper choice!
Canada’s newest Harper-picked Supreme Court Justice may well turn out to be another Mike Duffy or Pam Wallin in the making.In this Toronto Star article, she sounds like an entitled…
Oh, you shouldn’t have!
Just a little bloggy roundup of some really bad gift ideas from here and there on the web.First, a jolly old elf, from Mock Paper Scissors: From Dr. Grumpy, a…
Shorter
Shorter US torture report: Bush and Cheney corrupted the soul of the United States when they adopted torture as a state policy — and in return all they got was…
Reflections on racism and the police
Two long reads from Gawker, of all places, on racism and police: Why Should Anyone “Respect” the Law?: How can you ask people to respect the law when the law…
Trying to put lipstick on a pig
The Harper Cons are trying to put lipstick on a pig: An aide to Prime Minister Stephen Harper has taken over as chief of staff to embattled Veterans Affairs Minister…
Taken to the cleaners in #Ferguson
Tabitha Southey has a brilliant column in the Globe and Mail Hey, white person, imagine if you were stopped as though you were black : …Let’s imagine, for example, you’re…
#BlackLivesMatter but not in #ferguson
The failure to indict Darren Wilson is a travesty. By Langston Hughes: Ferguson: Chicago: Seattle: New York: Los Angeles: Washington: And in Toronto tomorrow
Fantino "explains" government budgeting
So it has been revealed that Veterans Affairs had $1.1 billion dollars in unused funding over seven years. Now Veterans Affairs minister Julian Fantino is claiming that the Harper Con’s…