Earl Scruggs
Banjo legend Earl Scruggs dies at 88:
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Snooze-fest
So sleepy MP Rob Anders has been booted off the Veterans Affairs Committee and is now a member of the joint Senate-House Scrutiny of Regulations CommitteeWell, if he had trouble…
What film industry?
Film tax credit won’t return: Premier Brad Wall says his government will not reinstate the film employment tax credit cut in last week’s budget, but it is willing to consider…
Can Mulcair fight the good fight?
As best I can, I have maintained my amateur status regarding the NDP leadership race by learning very little about any of the candidates.But I have liked what I did…
New comments now
OK I deleted the Haloscan comments and enabled the Blogger comments, so I hope this now will work across all of the various blogger homes. Let me know by email…
Great line of the day
From the Jurist responding to Christian Paradis refusing to resign and Harper refusing to make him: as usual, the Cons think law, order and accountability are only for people they…
Therefore, God?
My daughter was just telling me about the Singularity philosophy and others of the “I can’t understand it, therefore God?” ilk — and I was somehow reminded of The Philosophers’…
Comments update — use "ncr" after my blog address
So I wrote to Echo about the comment problem and this is the response: Your website URL which is associated with your Haloscan account and which is registered in your…
What did 94 Conservative candidates know, and when did they know it?
Sixth Estate has a brilliant roundup post gathering together all 94 of the ridings where fraudulent or harassing phone calls have now been reported: It’s become increasingly clear that there…
Comments problems?
For the last two days, when I open my blog, the “comment” form is embedded in the text rather than showing as a popup. And all of the previous comments…
Here comes the sun
Beautiful weather here for the last few days — it feels like spring today.
It lives!
No matter how hard the Harper Cons and their supporters try to pooh-pooh and minimize it, the robo-call scandal keeps growing and growing and growing. CBC News today: An investigation…
3.14
Happy Pi Day (3.14) Domino Spiral:
Turkey-head
For years I have confused Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, with Rowan Atkinson, AKA Mr. Bean. When I have written about the profoundly disappointing lack of leadership in the English…
Rush is taking the rest of them down with him
A hundred advertisers bail on right wing radio: To all Traffic Managers: The information below applies to your Premiere Radio Networks commercial inventory…They’ve specifically asked that you schedule their commercials…
Get those LOLcats outta here!
The Internet testifies at a parliamentary committee: “All right, we’ll carry on,” Mr. Preston sighs, removing a sloth from his lap and passing it gently to an aide.“Like!” someone calls…
Because shut up, that’s why
I think the word has gone out — everybody just SHUT THE F**K UP about the robocalls scandal. The NDP are still talking as are the pundits but the Harper…
Last refuge of a scoundrel
Samuel Johnson said patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.These days, its setting up a website.
"We are propelling the War Canoe"
Its fascinating to read the Canadian blogs today.The Galloping Beaver front-pagers are doing a bangup job keeping us up-to-date on the robocall scandal: among others, here, here, here, here, here,…
"Mistakes were made"
Ken Mehlman’s apology for going along with the Bush campaign’s anti-gay ballot initiatives in 2004 isn’t quite to the scale of McNamara’s apology for lying about Vietnam, but in terms…