Toulouse Le Grandfig’s Summer Vacation: Onions
Shattolott City, 1932 The man who loved onions. He loved onions Loved em. Really. He loooved them. If you catch my drift. The authorities frowned on his vegetable affections, but…
Did I say yes to Muskrat? I meant “no”: Jones
Political decisions in Newfoundland and Labrador are apparently like the local weather at least as far as the current crop of party leaders in the province is concerned. Wait a…
Aquaculture centre opened three years behind schedule, more than 100% over budget
Premier Kathy Dunderdale opened an aquaculture centre in the south coast community of St. Alban’s on Thursday three years after it was supposed to be finished and at more than…
Things Which May Be Connected
Kate's Butt.Sun Media's decision to pull out of the Ontario Press Council:The Toronto Sun must be getting too many complaints about its decision to publish that embarrassing Kate Middleton photo.…
Des Nouvelles De L’Avenir
Good day to you, gentlemen, gentleladies and other various gentlepeople. It is I, Professor Flamingo Jones of the University of Oxbridgeshire, writing to you once again. For the next week…
An overdue verdict on Guergis
The Ethics Commissioner has ruled that Helena Guergis did indeed contravene ethics guidelines when she promoted a company that her husband was connected to in a letter to her local…
Rupert Murdoch and the Fox News Gang
For the last two weeks I was lucky to have been in Britain as the Rupert Murdoch / News International scandal hit that country like a massive meteorite, rocking its…
Canadian media’s narrative of the Afghan war suspiciously like a fairy tale
The Intercontinental Hotel, Kabul, as it’s supposed to look: About as real as Canadian reporting on Afghanistan. Below: Helicopters hovering, above the Intercontinental, as shot by Reuters News Service; in…
Shorter
Shorter Eric Bolling: I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard was not what I meant.
Pulpit and Politics soon to be a book
Dennis Gruending, a popular Canadian religion blogger will be publishing a book in the fall, titled after his blog, Pulpit and Politics: I have been struck over the past few…
Packed and ready to go
Have I missed anything? Hope not. I'm mostly ready to go. Of course the last thing is computer related. I managed to wipe out the virtual machine I use to…
Proof That Cowboys Are Kind of Morons
Apparently riding bulls whose nuts have been twisted to drive them into a frenzy of pain and rage is a stupid, fucking thing to do. According to a recent study,…
Today at the Beach
Rare and perfect summer weather–sunny and 26 (79)–lured me to the beach with M & H. We waded in the water; we collected rocks, just a handful of small ones…
Who knew that stuff you learned in school…
...would be useful someday. Well in all seriousness I did, but this made some of the theory a little less theoretical. My bi-monthly edition of SkyNews showed up shortly after…
Gazebo memories
Here's today's Globe and Mail cartoon. Remember the gazebo in the middle of nowhere? Good times...You know, the horrendous G8-G20 spending debacle was revealed just three months ago.Why is our…
British Columbians Support Carbon Taxes, What’s Holding Up the Rest of You?
A FINE IDEA, BUNGLED - THANKS JACK A solid majority of British Columbians surveyed by the Pembina Institute support their provincial government's carbon taxation. Here are some of the findings:"…
Socialist duckling
Luckily for this duckling the authoritarian ducks were too busy hoarding to notice.H/T: Political Carnival
Great line of the day
At Balloon Juice, Angry Black Lady takes on Jane Hamsher's Obama-bashing: Jane, you are a mindless twit. You are wrong about everything, like, ALL THE TIME. Your blog posts are…