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There is no joy in Mudville.
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End of the road
I don't suppose the Canadian Wheat Board ever thought there was really any hope. But they're going ahead and doing the responsible thing by holding a plebiscite on whether farmers…
Showing the rich people we can do what we want
Booman notes this BBC interview with two young English women looting a liquor store and he discusses what America should learn from the England riots:Different countries chose different ways of…
Pot, meet kettle
Isn't it priceless that after all the harrumphing and pontificating on the part of the Conservatives and their media supporters about how awful that Nycole Turmel accepted a leadership position…
Sounds like something weird is going on in Brazil
This is beyond bizarre. First, Canadians are reading about how Harper locked himself in a bathroom and wouldn't come out until the speech schedule was changed to his liking at…
Signs of the times
From a Manchester sandwich shop today:"Due to the imminent collapse of society, we regret to announce we are closing at 6 pm tonight." And a flyer of advice to the…
I love the internets
Here's a little corner of the internet I'll bet you didn't know about -- a bunch of people apparently learned how to play guitar on the Google Les Paul Doodle…
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Shorter Boris: And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
Gonna get along without you now
After the Berlin Wall fell, the world thought that the United States had won.So did the United States.Reagan talked about the shining city on the hill. Bush the Elder talked…
Stop me before I invest again!
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The US government shutdown which won’t happen now
With all the criticism of that terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Obama debt limit deal, there is one aspect that the critics seem to be missing.The deal that Obama…
Paranoid
It's creepy.A while ago I ordered some shoes over the Internet. few days ago, I was looking up various table lamps and lighting fixtures. And I also checked out some…
Shooting themselves in the foot?
Steve is right that the Nycole Turmel story speaks to the emerging media narrative that the NDP are cynically trying to be popular in Quebec by pandering to separatists.By letting…
Yay, Sheepdogs!
They're on the cover of the Rolling StoneCongrats, boys.
Cover your ears
Sounds like the US Congress is working on a debt ceiling bill that might actually pass their disfunctional political system.Cue the right-wing hysteria and the left-wing flip-out in three, two,…
Well, that was weird
I posted a little item about an elderly woman in Ontario who needs to get the governor general's office to award her the Order of Canada, and the rest of…
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Shorter ethical oil campaignCanada: we're not as bad as those guys
Black Friday?
Oh, dearI suspect that today's the day that the big investors will sell, sell, sell, and the stock market will tank. And the Republicans will blame Obama.
Picking leaders
Steve is right. All the sturm and drang about whether the NDP will "survive" without Jack Layton is just silly. Over the years, the NDP has done a pretty good…
Boom goes the dynamite?
So the Republicans have screwed the pooch on raising the debt ceiling and Obama is speaking to the nation tonight.With any luck, he'll tell the Republicans to sit on it…