December 2005
Gifties!
Posted by on Saturday, December 31, 2005 in - 4 comments
Let not the New Year come without acknowledging the grand gifts we received from Marian, our correspondent in Budapest. Most gratefully received and you can expect something within the next, oh, 12 months after my guilt overcomes my slackness. Check here if there is any doubt in your mind as to my …
Day Thirty-Three: Time To Go Negative
Posted by on Saturday, December 31, 2005 in - leave a comment
The Globe and Mail reports today the following startling news: • “The Conservatives plan to air a negative television ad, warning that Paul Martin's Liberals are preparing to unleash a negative campaign, as the Tories aim to forestall attacks against their own leader...They have been …
Resolve
Posted by on Saturday, December 31, 2005 in - 2 comments
The Flea makes his resolutions. I make only one: • “vi. This is the year the Flea becomes famous for being famous.”
Six Years
Posted by on Saturday, December 31, 2005 in - leave a comment
It's six years past that 24 hour show about people ringing in the New Year time zone by time zone. Six years after we found out that Y2K was meaninglessness and a bit of a consultant's dream. The could probably run that show again this year digitally adding a little stick to the final "0" making …
Best of 2005 Friday Chit-chat-a-roney
Posted by on Friday, December 30, 2005 in - 48 comments
I'm going to work. Are you going to work? We have to be productive today. This is a gravy day. Money made today is pure profit. So nose to the grindstone everyone. To that end, to be the "heigh-ho, heigh-ho" in your day, what have been the highlights of your year? Here are some categories …
A New Museum
Posted by on Thursday, December 29, 2005 in - leave a comment
I love a museum where you can take the kids and throw a rock or splash or take a hike as part of the experience. Nice to see, then, that this coming July coming will see the opening of the Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks in Tupper Lake, NY. • This places it on the first afternoon of a …
The Thing I Thought This Day
Posted by on Thursday, December 29, 2005 in - 16 comments
I thought this. I really did. I thought that it is actually theoretically hypothetically possible given all I know that I could actually vote Tory this time. It was early in the caffeine cycle and so I will have to check back with myself later. Harper has time to grow a moustache before the 23rd …
Day Thirty-One: Dangers of Blogging II
Posted by on Thursday, December 29, 2005 in - 4 comments
[Ed.: Read the GX40 election 2005/06 archives.] • I wrote this over at Ben's this morning about the relative hugeness of the refusal of Federal finance minister Ralph Goodale to step aside while the RCMP conducts a criminal investigation into a possible leak of information from his department …
Glaus Trade
Posted by on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 in - leave a comment
Now I am really starting to wonder about the AL East. With the Yankees staying with its weak-ish starting rotation, the Bosox strong in pitching but less so elsewhere and the Jays actually acting like they were in the business of not choaking in August it may actually be a three horse race. The …
Disorganized
Posted by on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 in - leave a comment
Last time I wrote about this, it was the day before the London bombings but London Mayor Ken Livingston's comments again remind me of that question of how will we know if this slow war against shadows is over or even changed? • “The terror threat faced by London is "fairly disorganised" and …
Day Thirty: When To Sue
Posted by on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 in - leave a comment
With 27 days to go in the Federal election campaign and the party riding as high in the polls nationally as it ever has, it seems to be a very odd for the Greens to launch a law suit against former members of its leadership but that is what it appears to have done with its time off school this …
Day Twenty-Nine: The Dangers of Blogging
Posted by on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 in - 5 comments
I parked this over in the sideblog during this time of the great head cold, but the question still has to be asked: was this guy the country's dumbest blogger? Paul Wells tells us who the guy is (now was.) Forget for a moment the shameful sense of humour and the shoddy use of such humour for one's …
Christmas Foods
Posted by on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 in - 8 comments
Even though my weakened condition finds me eating Habitant pea and ham soup laced with an ungodly amount of Sambal Oelek, a firey Indonesian or Malaysian red chili paste, I am still able to think of foods of the last few days: • Fish feed for Christmas Eve. Mike Mundell's shop is a gem which I …
Irony Revisited...Again
Posted by on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 in - leave a comment
In my very slow battle against the neutering of the word "irony", it was gratifying to see two references to the word in Sunday's New York Times. The First was in Randy Kennedy's column on the words of 2005: • “The facination of such a chart would be to watch in great detail how quickly …
Good Bird Flu News
Posted by on Monday, December 26, 2005 in - leave a comment
Just in case this is not the panicky story of 2006, it appears that Yule may provide further joy this year: • “"Our research has shown that 2-to-3 per cent of the biomass from various pine, spruce and fir trees is extractible shikimic acid," Biolyse principal Claude Mercure said yesterday …
In The Millennium Just Past...
Posted by on Monday, December 26, 2005 in - 31 comments
Up in the wee hours of Boxing Day with a bug and not being Roman Catholic, it is an odd thing to consider parsing the words of Pope Benny's first Christmas gig but the first words of this passage caught my ear: • “"In the millennium just past, and especially in the last centuries, immense …
A Well Spent Holiday
Posted by on Sunday, December 25, 2005 in - 1 comment
I thought having 50% of us sick in bed was a dull way to spend Christmas but the manual spammer from India at 221.135.247.213 who has left eight comments at the beer blog this afternoon wins that race hands down. • I dub him Emmanuel Spam.
Hippy Chrismoose
Posted by on Saturday, December 24, 2005 in - 8 comments
Brussel sprouts Thursday and again on Friday. Must be Christmas! • Just a short note today to say thanks for all the comments and emails. It is quite fun to have created this space on the internets and be able to turn to it for other points of view on the stuff that I am day dreaming about on …
A Gift
Posted by on Saturday, December 24, 2005 in - leave a comment
Is it just me or does Stephen Harper look much less...grouchy...when he has his glasses on. Its that squinty sort of thing he does that gives the impression. I'd bet if he started wearing his glasses on the campaign trail he'd pick up 3% to 5% on that alone.
Christmas Eve Eve Chatteroo
Posted by on Friday, December 23, 2005 in - 14 comments
...it's off to work I go... • Things to note: • Despite it being December 23rd, and it falling on a Friday, I full intend to be as productive as I would be on April 17th. Really. I. do. • I don't plan to take a holiday break from blogging. Plenty do. Not me. I will have nothing to write …
Gotcha
Posted by on Thursday, December 22, 2005 in - leave a comment
Never a bad moment when the evil are detained. From The Globe: • “London's Metropolitan Police identified the man as Adel Yahya, 23. He was arrested Tuesday at Gatwick Airport as he got off a flight from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He was charged with conspiring with four other men, all of whom are …
One Thing To Remember At The Border
Posted by on Thursday, December 22, 2005 in - 1 comment
“ In the context of a border search, asking the respondent to turn his pockets inside out was no more invasive than a search of baggage, or a purse, or a pat down or frisk of outer clothing. At no time was the respondent strip-searched or patted down. ” • The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled this …
Winter Solstice Madness
Posted by on Thursday, December 22, 2005 in - 2 comments
Oh, my aching head...and ankles. The Morris dancers just let and hour ago and I have to get to work. No statutory holidays for pagans even in Canada. Oh, well. It was a blast. And the light has won again. • This year the birch log is a good three feet through the middle so with a slow flame and …
Best Beer Pics Yet
Posted by on Thursday, December 22, 2005 in - leave a comment
Just in case some of you are not readers of A Good Beer Blog, I would like to brag about my photos of imperial stout.
How Much For The Ferry?
Posted by on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 in - 2 comments
Bad news for whoever has a soft spot for the Rochester to Toronto ferry bought by that US city's Council just this spring: • “The city had set aside an $8-million cushion but had to borrow an extra $2-million from ferry operator Bay Ferries Ltd. to keep afloat. On Tuesday night, the City Council …
Johnny Who?
Posted by on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 in - 26 comments
“The Red Sox knew they could be in the market for a new center fielder to start the 2006 season, but that didn't lessen the shock late Tuesday night when Johnny Damon signed a four-year, $52 million deal with the New York Yankees.” • I am disgustified and bamzoobled. Tens of thousands of …
Up Way Too Late
Posted by on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 in - leave a comment
Jumping as putting on sock late, pouring water on the cat instead of plant late, calling children wrong name as heading out the door late, Kramer entrance to 9:00 am meeting late... • Late.
Be A Coffee Snob
Posted by on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 in - 14 comments
I've watch chunks of the three-hour TV documentary series Black Coffee on TVO over the last few weeks and it makes me want to campaign for coffee snobbery. The show explains how the international coffee trade is the second largest commodity market after oil but how it is driven by movement of the …
Day Twenty-Two: Who Is Harper (Revisited)
Posted by on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 in - 34 comments
“ • “[Ed.: My confession later in the day - I pasted the quotation below from my own source code and it has a dead link from the past. Here is the full text of the 1994 Harper speech if only from a Liberal Party of Canada site. I can find no other version. Nope - I am undone. That is not that …
Day Twenty-One: The Great Ennui Sets In
Posted by on Monday, December 19, 2005 in - 15 comments
Are other peoples' elections this dull? The more I think about the two debates the more I am stunned by how ineffective they were. The Globe and Mail reports this morning: • “Twenty-one per cent of those who saw the debates or heard about them afterward said Mr. Martin won, compared to 15 per …
Team Zissou
Posted by on Sunday, December 18, 2005 in - 2 comments
I finally saw The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and was moved. I think if I knew the soundtrack was an accoustic version of early Bowie in Brazilian Portuguese by a character called Pele dos Santos I would have gone to the theatre. • But I do not go to the movies when the offering is too close …
Christmas Cheese
Posted by on Sunday, December 18, 2005 in - 3 comments
As part of our time of extra consumption, we try to corner the market on cheese. I think we have about ten types of cheese in the house. We are lucky around here as we have a small producer of fine cornerstone cheeses, Wilton, makers of an excellent extra old white cheddar, and also perhaps a …
Yuletide
Posted by on Sunday, December 18, 2005 in - 5 comments
I am convinced there is a third or maybe fourth thread running through this time of year. The first is the birth of Christ which, for better or worse, has receded in terms of importance for most people. The second is the bacchanal of spending - the fear that you have spent too much or not enough …
Reading Others
Posted by on Saturday, December 17, 2005 in - 2 comments
As my fourth calendar year of maintaining this site and maybe my seventh of reading and commenting on the blogs of others approaches, I should be getting weary or wary but there appears to be some sort of peak of writing quality going on right now. This post by the Flea over one Liberal …
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Buy This CD
Posted by on Friday, December 16, 2005 in - leave a comment
I did not rock this year. My 2003 and 2004 was full of music and even rock. I saw Elvis Costello in July 2003 and yelled along with every song making the full circle of my adult life from rec room 1978 complete. I saw, lost my hearing and stood around with Sloan in October 2003. And in spring 2004 …
Friday Again - Time To Yap
Posted by on Friday, December 16, 2005 in - 16 comments
Sharing from you to me that is... • Things are going well here in the snow belt. I think we had more snow in the last 12 hours than in the last two winters. Good for the Christmassy feeling. We are not going totally insane with the shopping this year and all but one package to be mailed has been …
Day Seventeen: Being Rude For Gain
Posted by on Thursday, December 15, 2005 in - 3 comments
The election is going to slide soon. I feel it in my achy joints: • You have these words of Mr. Harper from 1997 popping up again: • “Bilingualism is largely propaganda, Mr. Harper tells the group. Canada "is basically an English-speaking country," he says. In describing Canada's political …
Microformats And Control
Posted by on Thursday, December 15, 2005 in - leave a comment
David has been writing a lot about microformats and I have to admit it has gone completely past me as I assumed that he was talking about some sort of thingie. Now that I pay attention and have a look at this explanation I think that it is something like the thing I day dreamed about in October …
Why God Created The Skydome
Posted by on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 in - leave a comment
The US government has barred the Cuban team, likely the best or at least one of the very best national teams in the world from the World Baseball Classic, despite the general acceptance that sports and politics have no place in bed with each other. • OK, I know...but it is time to bring them …
Meet The New Ed
Posted by on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 in - 2 comments
Other than by cloning Ed Broadbent and bringing him back a few decades younger, what could be better news for the NDP? • “Former governor general Ed Schreyer will announce Thursday he's entering the federal election campaign as an NDP candidate in Manitoba, an unprecedented move for a former …
CBC Election Roundtable
Posted by on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 in - 54 comments
Well, it is up now. I have been invited to join the CBC Election Roundtable of five bloggers from across Canada. It sits on the analysis and commentary page of Canada Votes 2006 at cbc.ca. So, yes, my words now sit in the same server farm as Le Brent. • We are to give our views on the events of …
Mr Softee's Song
Posted by on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 in - 1 comment
Anone who has seen the great Christmas time film from Scotland's Bill Forsyth, Comfort and Joy, knows that the ice cream van business is no laughing matter but I was a bit surprised to read this in the New York Times this morning: • “A year and a half ago, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg sought to …
Day Sixteen: Foreign Policy
Posted by on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 in - 5 comments
I was not going to write this every day but the gods do conspire and this is a pretty good election we have going in terms of ideas. I can't believe I wrote that. I can't believe I could actually write that with some basis in fact. Do you remember foreign policy? That means that your government …
Big News
Posted by on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 in - leave a comment
I have big news for me anyway but I can't say anything about it until tomorrow. A really cool project...but I can't write about it now. It is not that astounding so much as neato. Somewhere between cold fusion and Segway. No...err...that would be nowhere. This is actually a nice little something.
Day Fifteen: Great Tory Blogging
Posted by on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 in - 4 comments
One of the worst and most useless things about blogging is that it is derivative, people copying, cutting and pasting and adding a line or two of observation that is about as original as the other 2754 blogs that have copy, cut and pasted the same thing. Kinda what I mostly do. • But have a look …
My Last Hour
Posted by on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 in - 4 comments
Nothing like being up in the night because of a cranky kid, killing an hour on the blogs and coming across this at NYCO's place: • “For me, my biggest problem with the Internet has been those times when I just sit mindlessly an hour too long, waiting for something interesting to materialize …
Rioting
Posted by on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 in - 5 comments
France five weeks ago. Australia this one. I keep thinking about how riots in the one place are like the riots in the other: • “Prime Minister John Howard called the violence "sickening," but denied it was rooted in racism. Arab community leaders said the unrest would heighten racial tensions as …
North Korean Photos
Posted by on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 in - leave a comment
A rare view of life in rural North Korea is shown at the BBC where pictures an anonymous western business person was allowed to take are posted: • “I could travel more or less where I pleased for my work, and even though we always had translators and minders, I was rarely prevented from taking …
Day Fourteen: The New Politically Correct
Posted by on Monday, December 12, 2005 in - 35 comments
Without taking sides whether the policy is right or wrong, I find something sad about this: • “One of Paul Martin's top aides apologized to Canadian parents yesterday after saying on national television that they would buy popcorn and beer with the money the Conservatives are offering for child …
Christmas Cards
Posted by on Sunday, December 11, 2005 in - 5 comments
So because I have finished the Christmas shopping way before the usual afternoon of the 24th, I actually pulled out the address book to do a few cards. Then I realized that the internet has destroyed whatever relationship I ever had with the global system of postal services. The "sent to" address …
Ontario Wine Blog
Posted by on Sunday, December 11, 2005 in - 2 comments
Nicholas at Quotulatiousness has accepted a poke in the ribs from me, given after I read a few of his wine related posts, and struck out with the Ontario Wine Blog, a great opportunity to gather information about this province's wine industry. • Who is next? Who will next join the League of …
Elmer Gantry
Posted by on Sunday, December 11, 2005 in - 1 comment
The excellent thing about modernity is all the storage space. Things can sit around for decades and still be brought out brushed off and considered again. In Gray's poem "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard" he writes: • “Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid • Some heart once pregnant …
Twenty Killed in China
Posted by on Saturday, December 10, 2005 in - 4 comments
In another time this week's massacre in China of farmers protesting the taking of their land for development might have been the main news item of the day: • “A small group of villagers was chosen to complain to the authorities about the plant in August, but the members were arrested …
Office Party
Posted by on Saturday, December 10, 2005 in - leave a comment
We went, we were merry and we left at a reasonable hour. When did I get so grown up?
World Cup Draw Madness
Posted by on Friday, December 9, 2005 in - 4 comments
World Cup 2006 fever has done mad here in Casa GX40 what with the crowd of staff, guests and volunteers just dissipating now after this afternoon's announcement of the draw. • Trinidad and Tobago, chosen team of the crowd here at the HQ today, face England in round one and I look forward to a …
Friday: You Want Chat? OK. Chat!
Posted by on Friday, December 9, 2005 in - 4 comments
The big news, other than I got up too early, is: • Ben at Haavaad had a few last night and joined in the Canadian conservative song of the long knives which has broken out early in this campaign. The polls are not annointing their own so it is time to pack it in even though there are six weeks …
Pickle Sandwich
Posted by on Thursday, December 8, 2005 in - 1 comment
There are simple truths. • One is that yum yum (aka bread and butter) pickle sandwiches are good, with or without extra old cheddar cheese. It is too bad that other things in life are not like a yum yum (aka bread and butter) pickle sandwich, with or without extra old cheddar cheese because a …
Day Ten: Act Two
Posted by on Thursday, December 8, 2005 in - 11 comments
OK. It is now act two. We have passed the first act, established a whole bunch of stuff, the main players have made their best opening statements and we have a sense of where the story is going. And we know we are nowhere near act four because the stage is not yet littered with bodies. • The …
Lockerball
Posted by on Thursday, December 8, 2005 in - 9 comments
I have this memory of being in the car really early on a Summer morning when I was five or so. We are driving around Montreal, there for Expo 67 or Man and His World, and it is the day a Bealtes album was released and the car radio is just playing the lp straight though. I also remember the day …
The Center of Omnitopia Research
Posted by on Wednesday, December 7, 2005 in - 1 comment
OK, now I am interested as I have - or this blog -been noted by the thinker whose thoughts were noted which notation was then noted by me. Now I have to think a bit more about this.
Routemaster
Posted by on Wednesday, December 7, 2005 in - 1 comment
The BBC reports that: • “From Friday 9 December, this quintessential London scene will disappear forever as the last of the capital's veteran red Routemaster buses reach the end of the line. On that day the last Routemaster route - the 159 running from Streatham to Marble Arch - will convert to …
Good News For Lumber
Posted by on Wednesday, December 7, 2005 in - leave a comment
I am no enonomist but...just a minute. If I can be a citizen journalist and a amateur radio station maybe I can be a citizen economist. Sure I can. The internet makes me whatever I dream I can be. • So with that new self-...what is the opposite of self-deprecation?...it is good to see that the …
Plodcasting
Posted by on Wednesday, December 7, 2005 in - 8 comments
If there ever was a movement waiting to die and not be missed it is podcasting. By "podcasting", I don't mean mean internet audio downloadable and probably downloadable maybe by an automated format like RSS as that sort of thing has basically existed since the internet began except for maybe the …
Famous Last Words?
Posted by on Wednesday, December 7, 2005 in - leave a comment
I don't wish the Blue Jays ill but I sure don't love them. Attending a couple of games at the Sky Dome was enough to do that for me. But they have a tough row to hoe given they are being to two biggest budgets in baseball and really have to do something dramatic to break out of a race for third …
Krampus
Posted by on Tuesday, December 6, 2005 in - 9 comments
Marian in Budapest commented earlier today about this evil-twin sidekick of Santa in Hungary by name of Krampusz. This photo of the same goat-gent as seen in Austria was on the BBC website today with the following caption: • “Krampus, a terrifying companion to St Nicholas, is seen in an age-old …
How's Your Yule?
Posted by on Tuesday, December 6, 2005 in - 14 comments
I am having an inordinately early Yule. And its not just the Andy Williams special reruns on PBS - though, bouy the Jaysus, them Osmonds can sing. I've got most of the shopping done. I've been to a Christmas concert already. I have worn a brighter sort of tie to work. Madness of the northern …
Andy Williams
Posted by on Monday, December 5, 2005 in - 1 comment
I knew the world was a really cool place when one evening in undergrad I first heard The Beat aka The English Beat's cover of "Can't Get Used to Losing You". Applying the goodness of ska to Andy Williams' hit was masterful, slamming and respect. • Andy William's growing up from 2 to 12 from 1965 …
Voice of Vietnam
Posted by on Monday, December 5, 2005 in - 2 comments
I rigged up an antenna the other day and thought I would try to old 49 metre band and there it was booming in - the Voice of Vietnam from 10 pm to 11 pm at 6175 Khz. Who knew? • And there are not a lot of not quite post-Communist stations left out there with their bland mix of the elevator music …
Baseball Thoughts
Posted by on Monday, December 5, 2005 in - 3 comments
Even though we are in an election campaign, the holiday season and dealing with the on-set of winter, it is important to keep baseball in mind because you know spring training camp opens in two months and the grapefruit league begins in three. There really is not that much time to fret. • Good …
Don't Ask
Posted by on Sunday, December 4, 2005 in - 4 comments
People say strange things. In the Toronto Star today there is a report that someone actually said this to one of their reporters: • “"I suggest you don't pursue this any further," said the official, who asked not to be named.” • That the official was being asked about secret-ish CIA flights …
Posted by on Sunday, December 4, 2005
We All Lie
Posted by on Sunday, December 4, 2005 in - 8 comments
Two and a half years ago I liked the idea of wikipedia. But the New York Times article on wikipedia today points out the obvious fact that has made me lose faith in its usefulness: the amateur web encyclopedia is jam packed with falsehood. This, unlike much of the content of wikipedia, in fact is …
Day Six: Pay Off The Debt
Posted by on Sunday, December 4, 2005 in - 1 comment
The best policy announcement this weekend has not come from any of the political parties. It has come from Jay Currie and it is his plan to pay off the Federal debt in a timely manner: • “Instead of throwing away eight billion dollars on pre-election promises or 4.5 billion on a GST cut, we are …
Canadian Satellite Radio
Posted by on Saturday, December 3, 2005 in - 3 comments
As you all know all too well, I am a radio nerd. I was a member of the Radio Prague Listeners Club, have received reception report confirmation cards from many nations, held a trans-Atlantic reception record for a while when I heard local East German radio in my old Nova Scotian home, listen …
Cricketing Powerhouse
Posted by on Saturday, December 3, 2005 in - leave a comment
Odd that the Pakistani bowler Shoaib Akhtar should celebrate victory over England by running through a crowd of his teammates, flinging them into the air. But it is a different game and, as the BBC reports: • “Inspired by Kaneria's exploits, Shoaib then summoned up all his energy to deliver a …
Vote Flea
Posted by on Saturday, December 3, 2005 in - 1 comment
Now that I have admitted my place is not in the spotlight, I must encourage you to vote Flea. Who else can cover the Kylie story like he does and still looks good in spats?
Day Five: The Asymetrical Question
Posted by on Saturday, December 3, 2005 in - 14 comments
Interesting stuff happening and at a pace I don't think anyone anticipated. For me the quotation of the day is not about health care or taxes but this one from Giles Duceppe: • “"Is Paul Martin in the process of telling us that if we win the election (in Quebec), he is going to negotiate Quebec …
CBC Sloan
Posted by on Friday, December 2, 2005 in - leave a comment
On my travels to the Big Smoke, I got to listen to a CBC Toronto interview with Chris and Jay of my rock acquaintances (and web servers mates) Sloan. My bits pass their bytes all the time. And it turns out that they are going to revive the late 80's CKDU radio thing on the new digital satellite …
Friday Chatfest
Posted by on Friday, December 2, 2005 in - 11 comments
Not only am I letting you do all the heavy lifting this Friday, I am also not getting anywhere near a computer until later. So I better post this now. Ideas.... • GST reduction v. income tax reduction - which to drop? This is such a luxurious election. I can't remember one ever that was …
Don Valley Loveliness
Posted by on Thursday, December 1, 2005 in - 1 comment
Here I am in Toronto at the Royal York waiting for a rubber chicken plate and a presentation on the Gomery findings. As a civil servant with involvement in purchasing these kinds of things are interesting and I don't expect the question of who lied will even come up. More about process and how …
Holy Moley!
Posted by on Thursday, December 1, 2005 in - 8 comments
I have not yet gotten into the NHL again but I still know enough to know this is a massive trade: • “The San Jose Sharks swung a shocking, blockbuster trade on Wednesday, acquiring Joe Thornton for a trio of former first-round draft picks. San Jose swapped Wayne Primeau, Marco Sturm and Brad …
Day Three: What Phoney Campaign?
Posted by on Thursday, December 1, 2005 in - 6 comments
You didn't think I was going to do this every day, did you? I couldn't imagine pretending there was something of interest in every day of the campaign. But yesterday there was. • The Conservative's call for a public prosecutor is very interesting. It places the accountability argument into the …
