Will you come back if the Habs make the playoffs next year?
Legendary sportswriter Red Fisher announced his retirement this morning after 58 years of covering the Montreal Canadiens.Just when I was about to maybe have the chance to say I edited…
Kevin Wood
This blog post kills fascists
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Doc Watson – RIP
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Make a little noise
I don’t think this is about tuition hikes anymore. Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Back on the air
As you can hear (automatically, if you don’t want to hear, just go to your right and hit the pause button) Radio Woodshed is back on the air after a…
But the boomers were ‘entitled to their entitlements’
Nice piece by John Moore in the National Post on just who is and is not whining about entitlement. Setting aside the fact that this intergenerational hectoring dates back to…
Credit where credit is due
Hurray for Constable Bubbles. He has done the right thing in identifying fellow police officers who broke the law. More cops should do the same. Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
No bad jobs, just lazy Canadians
“There is no bad job. The only bad job is not having a job.You do what you have to do to make a living.”–Finance Minister Jim Flaherty (WARNING: As with…
Apparently you can’t make a casserole without pepper
How do you get half-a-million Montrealers into the streets when hockey season is over? Pepper-spray them off the terrace at the corner cafe. (if the title of the post confuses…
holiday Monday is all right for uke fighting?
the originalthe cover For 14 years in Japan, this was my homesickness theme song. I even got to perform it with a local jazz band in my local pub a…
Why I Support the Quebec Student Protests
Because this is what the other side does. My French isn’t good enough to follow the conversation very precisely, but that doesn’t really matter. There is nothing anyone could have…
Abso-fucking-lutely
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That will teach them
Masked thugs run amok at G20 summit in Toronto So another report has blasted the Toronto Police and OPP for their misdeeds during the G20.I’m sure the harsh punishment meted…
The vilest thing I’ve seen in a long time
Dear human race,I am very, very disappointed in you.Sincerely,Rev.Paperboy P.S. Is it something in the water in parts of the country? Does repeated exposure to loud bangs cause some kind…
Reading list update
An update on my Read 50 Books This Year project: 17. Another Day Another Dungeon by Greg ConstikyanA lighthearted comic fantasy novel that reads like a session of Dungeons and…
A proud day
Not only did I start a new job today as copy editor for a national newspaper chain (that’s right Canada: I M IN UR PAYPUR EDITIN UR NOOZE) but my…
Harmonica Players Suck (Except When They Blow)
Free 28-page guide to blowing (and sucking) your brains out.Make music (or a reasonable facsimile thereof)!Amaze your friends!Confound your enemies!Annoy the hell out of your roommates and neighbours! Click here…
Ford threatens to (b)eat reporter
As comical as I find the latest shenanigan involving duh Mayor of Toronto, the underlying story that Star reporter Daniel Dale was researching when he was mugged by duh Mayor…
"How can you run when you know?"
13 seconds, 67 bullets fired, four killed, one paralyzed for life, eight others wounded. RIP Jeffrey Glenn Miller, Allison B. Krause, William Knox Schroeder and Sandra Lee Scheuer Tweet The…
‘this machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender"
Happy 93rd birthday Pete Seeger! Would somebody give this guy a Nobel prize already? (btw, this has been the wallpaper on my computer desktop for about the last six months)…