Somebody get Mike Wallace to look into this
We eat a lot of instant ramen noodles here at the Woodshed. I wish to the FSM they would stop calling these little packets of instant noodles "ramen" since they…
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Anarchy in the U.K.
Some thoughts and links on the riots across England:Not everyone in London is either a rioting, firebomb-throwing yob looter or an authoritarian "send-in-the-army" wannabe aristocrat. Some of them are good…
Sometimes they just make this too easy
Yesterday, the Toronto Sun asked readers to suggest three "quick fix" ideas for things that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford could do right away to make Toronto a better city. Well,…
Pompous and wrong as always
Shorter Conrad Black: A gentleman such as oneself is apt to miss the comforts of the fairer sex when unjustly incarcerated by one's inferiors and one's good lady wife declines…
Help Japan and support your local bookstore
2:46 aka #Quakebook has finally hit the shelves in bookstores around the world, and is selling well.All the proceeds go to the Japan Red Cross for earthquake relief work -…
America’s new national anthem
Not sure how the pictures connect with the music, but I look forward to hearing this played before sporting events.Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Best newspaper movies of all time
A discussion around the copy desk today- what are the best newspaper/media movies?A short list in no particular order:1. All the President's Men. Woodstien and Bernward eat Nixon's lunch. A…
stihl bisy
But not so busy that I can"t remind you to read David Climenhaga on why Canadians need to stand on guard for thee against Rupert Murdoch. Tweet The Rev. Paperboy…
Sun Papers tire of knocking collective heads against bottom of barrel, decide to get rid of barrel and start digging
One wonders what the politically correct straw was that broke the reactionary, knuckle-dragging, often bigoted, always pandering-to-the-basest-instinct-of-the-mob camel's back? Does this mean, per Blatchford, that the Sun papers are now…
Enough with the uniform fetish already
"Wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross" indeed.Didn't thousands of brave Canadians die in World War Two just so we could avoid exactly this kind of creeping militarism and…
One for all parents everywhere
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Bisy Backson
Having upped stakes and relocated the pulpit--if not yet the entire family--to the Royal City and having started a new job as a night watchman at a place that makes…
the new media is the new message
I'll be hosting one of my occasional Maple Syrup Editions of Virtually Speaking tonight, discussing the work of one of Canada's most famous thinkers, Marshall McLuhan, with another of our…
Huzzah!
I am once again temporarily in the employ of a great Metropolitan newspaper and shall be moving to fortified compound in the tri-city area forthwith! Excelsior! Tweet The Rev. Paperboy…
the woodshed 2011-05-20 00:43:00
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What could go wrong?
From the same brilliant commonsense school of "thought" that gave us a high school dropout as Minister of Education in Ontario, the same braintrust that appoint a creationist quack as…
Election images
Aislin, for my money, is still one of the most eloquent political and social pundits in this country in either language.Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
It just happened here
To paraphrase Sinclair Lewis: When fascism comes to Canada, it will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a hockey stick. Coach Harper won his majority last night thanks to…
a song for election day
"I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush" ...actually the song is about the use of agent orange in Vietnam, but...well, make up your own metaphor, I'm not sure…
where better to spend election eve?
FSM willing and the skype doesn't crash, Scott Tribe will be my guest tonight to talk Canadian politics on Virtually Speaking Sunday: Maple Syrup Edition at 8 pm EDT/5 pm…