Would it be blue and orange versus blue and orange?
I was pretty tired of the usual gang of playoff contenders. With the Red Sox 2 years ago, White Sox last year, and whoever wins this series this year, it is satisfying to see the crown deservedly move from city to city.
Does anyone else see a connection between the Yanks loss in the playoffs and their pitcher flying into a skyscraper?

As Conrad maneuvers to regain his citizenship sales of hemmeroid cream go up. Coincidence - we think not.

Dear Mr. Black, please get your snout outta my arse! Why the hell isn't he in jail already?

I had friends over for supper last night and in addition to solving the world's problems, they decided that Iggy would win the leadership race.

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Dear Mr. Black, please get your snout outta my arse! Why the hell isn't he in jail already?
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Yes, that dirty filthy richer. It's too bad a gang can't go over to his house and give him and his family some "social justice". How dare he create hundreds of millions of dollars of value for his shareholders, thousands if not tens of thousands of jobs and so forth _and actually have his own opinion that varies from his obvious superiors in a small number of urban regions in Canada_. Scum.

Could you remind me of a job he created, David? As a M+A guy who made his money off of downsizing, spinning off and tapping into pension funds I hardly see him as the Victorian industrialist bring the village into medoernity. We have to avoid that sort of ideological bent on reality if we are to be honest with each other.

Bullet Points: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_(typography)
Yes, one can only agree. Tis a silly term. And PowerPoint IS a brand name however Power User is a stupid term dreamed up to make people feel all "blue ribbon" to steal your term, and turn a simple use of a tool designed for business meeting flashiness into something miraculous. People apparently need backpatting, petting and constant preening to be motivated to just do their damn jobs nowadays.

Let's start with the National Post, outside the original FP staff, adding in the paper delivery services, increased demand for paper, ink, and all other related support that's required.

And seeing as he is being sued in a number of country for tapping into the shareholders' due reward, I am a bit at a loss of your defense of this particular example of the rise and fall of human folly.

Then do your subtractions, please. You are a man of science with a flair for math and have to take into account both sides of equations.

You asked for an example, I gave you an example. The National Post (bigger than) FP, therefore, more employees i.e. jobs.

We'll see about the suits. His company, his votes, his money. Shareholders are a lot worse of today than they were today than they 18 months ago.

Shareholders money, shareholder's company, shareholder's money. To miss that essential nature of corporations is to miss everything.

"...why does North Korea getting the nuke cause not a blip?"

North Korea is neither an oil producer nor does it have the capacity to interfere with the major sea routes for oil shipping. If some sort of military fracas ensues I would expect a blip.

And Ignatieff's "not losing any sleep" to "war crime" with no need for, say, evidence before, during or after his claim implies two things. First, that this guy is not ready for primetime. Second, that the Liberals have lost any prospect of earning my vote if this guy is not ridden out on a rail. It is a truly shameful performance and especially from a man whose sole supposed strength is his foreign policy expertise.

I would liek to know how the oil companies justify this week's 10-center perlitre hike if gas prices without an accompanying jump in the price of oil? The price of oil is at it's lowest price in 8 months and slipping, yet gas prices leap 13% overnight.

I keep forgetting this comments interface publishes my email address. If you find a moment to erase them I would be grateful.

Oh, just shoot me. Typo, typo, typo ... Mea culpa

I expect my marketplace players to anticipate the blips as a matter of course, to wrangle with future fear and risk with deft and early intervention. If North Korea is able to slip dirty bomb material that can be placed in the vacinity of corporate offices or industrial sites, as we are told and as the revelations in the British Courts appears to make a likely scenerio, I would have expected a blip. When is a blip blipable?

Gordo: There is the price of oil and there is the price of refining oil. I forget how long it is has been since a new refinery was built in North America... When the system becomes overloaded a price hike follows. Not that I am confident in the prices set by the various cartels along the entire oil supply chain.

I will erase. Remember, it is not mandatory to place either email or URL to post. You just have to reprint the "-A-Rama"-eqsue six letter humanoid test.

Alan: North Korean asymmetric warfare of the kind you describe is made no more or less likely by their supposed testing of a nuclear bomb. Also, I expect the Magic 8-Ball read "Signs point to no" and panic was thereby avoided.

The other interesting thing to me is that they and others that you have written about show the falsity that is the idea that the terrorists have no home address. There is a source of money and a source of arms. Both can be located on the map. Take away those and you may just have angry men in cafes.

Jaysus, I slip away for awhile, and when I return it is verbal deathmatch at gen x at 40 all over agin! I like Paul's turn of phrase, and metaphors, and I forgive Gordo his typos, but why won't you people get back to discussing the important stuff, like BASEBALL? And has anybody noticed hockey season began, but my teams stink? Thank gawd for football. maybe cm can join me in passing the blatherous banter.

Master Flea, blaming an increase in refining costs for the recent increase in gas prices doesn't follow logic. Labour/mainteance costs do not spike overnight and suddenly slide again. If that were truly the reason, then the price would go up and stay there (except for the periodic price-fixing of oil costs) for some time. Given the absence of market indicators, greed is the only logical explanation. Besides, the oil companies don't generally waste any time with trotting out excuses like diminished refinining capacity or leaking pipeline. Where's the press release?

Gary, thank you. I was trying out Firefox 2 yesterday and love it's built-in spell checker, but it's not stable enough for my use yet.

Of course there is no crime or no shame to earn wealth or be born into it. However, when a wealthy man wants more and uses his place to steal from all those who are rightfully entitled to it, well that does get my fur up. It makes no matter to me whether he is "captain of industry" or a silver spooner. In fact, given his wealth, perhaps all of his alleged actions (raqueteering, money laundering , obstruction of justice, mail fraud, wire fraud, etc.) should be judged to a higher standard than those of pauper who steals milk.

The fact that he prances about in search of farcical titles while trying on citizenships like sunglasses just makes it easier for most to realize how detached the man is from any of the realities, legal or otherwise, that most of us use to get from one day to the next.

Anxiously awaiting testimony from David Radler in '07.

Paul, I have declared a KSPC event at 4:31. All of you elsewhere, do likewise.

I'm afraid I have to turn "heel" here (or "face" depending on whose tag team I was supposed to be on) and back neither Alan nor David.

I am extremely grateful to Lord Black for giving us the <i>National Post</i> (and a revitalised <i>Financial Post</i>). On the other hand he has SEC civil fraud suits pending, criminal fraud charges from the US Attorney, and now charges of racketeering, obstruction of justice and money laundering.

If he were any other potential citizen we would be withholding any determination on his citizenship pending the outcome of his criminal trials. The same ought to be occuring here and, if he is convicted on any count, he should also be removed from the Order of Canada for bringing disrupte on it.

Also the Tigers are the One True Team and Leyland is their Prophet (peace be upon him).

Perhaps I'm wrong but people who generally badmouth Black did so _long_ before the latest affairs.

Not I. Never. Nu'uh. Nada. Not a chance.<p>Well, I did think he was a pompous dork with a habit of bullying. That has nothing to do with being a successful capitalist, if he could ever be described as that being the M+A and debt bubblista that he has been throughout his career. I think we have thousands of far more admirable Canadian entrepreneurs who we do not - to choke on the furball of a Gzowskian word - <i>celebrate</i>.

Barring massive snows, Alan, I will be at your office at 4:29 for the KSPC event with a pocket full of loonies.

Oh shoot, I'm busy today, crap....

Gordo: Labour and maintenance costs may not spike over night but the amount of oil waiting to be processed by the available refining capacity can. And other exigencies, such as the notorious hurricane which struck New Orleans, can temporarily shut down refining capacity.

That said, and to repeat, I do not trust the cartels at any point in the oil supply chain to more than approximate a "market price" at the pump, however that might be construed.

Alan, as soon as I buy a new home and stop having a commute that gets me in the door at 6:00 pm, I shall join your Playing of the Catch events, be in invited.

Update: looking at new loggish cabinish home on Moonday next. If said abode is accaptable, twill be an offer made.

Hoy hoy!

Good for you. You will, no doubt, enjoy the extra expenses home ownership provides as much as I do.

I would like to refute the assertion that Canadian cheddar is better than British cheddar. There are no Canadian equals to Pilgrim's Choice export specialty cheeses.

I will stand in the city square with a round of Pilgrim's Choice Whisky Cheddar and take all challengers, man or dairy. Loblaws sells it on this side of the pond, and if you like your cheddar loaded with whisky or other alcoholic accessories, there is only One True Cheddar and UK Trade & Investment is its exporter.

A valiant and useful addition to the cause, good sir.

I don't suppose there's a GX40 "Good Cheese Blog" out there somewhere? Sooner or later all that beer and dairy is going to spawn the Cholesterol Reduction Blog.

I do have a cheese category so that is one step away from <i>A Good Cheese Blog</i> - I also thought that <i>A Good Sherry, Port and Dessert Wine Blog</i> is warranted, especially with the winter months coming on.

Oh, Iggy is ready for primetime, just not the Prime Ministership. Unlike PET, to whom he bears very little resemblance having written actual books and all, Iggy seems to give a rat's ass about what his own spinners tell him he should care about. This means he backs and fills. PET would have left well enough alone with the initial "not losing sleep" remark and said to Quebec, "Me or Harper, your call."

Iggy would, however, be a great host on the CBC.

Lord Black has provided hours of comic relief to a grateful nation. I especially enjoyed his stint as a moving man at Hollinger HQ so wonderfully captured on surveilance video and, if I could find it, his impersonation of a military officer as the honourary colonel of one of Canada's regiments is Pythonesque in its selfless absurdity. And, lest we forget, he has honoured us with not one, but two, autobiograpies chock a block with unintentional humour and pompous turn of phrase. Plus, as an added bonus, he saved the Toronto literary world from the continued sexual predations of über-cougar, Lady Black.

We shall not see his like again.

I loved his turn off phrases, though I do not disagree with your characterization.

My favorite "Lady Black" story is the quote: "I knew Barbara Ameil before she had black hair and tits".

I will not have a word said against predatious lady cougars!

Whiskey cheese sounds brilliant, btw.

I would think whisky cheddar would be miles ahead of whiskey cheddar.

I knew that "e" would get me in trouble round these parts. I stand by it nonetheless.

Bravely said! And do ask around the Queen Street West dancehalls about the news on cheese this weekend. We do need all the information we can get.

Home: Yes Alan, The added cost. I allow my financial manager to take care of such things and apparently I shall be in the hole for 35 years or until I become famous and such, oh well. My actress friend who lives in Coldheart Canyon has been sent he link to the MLS listing. I shall go with her opinion.

A Good Cheese Blog.. I posititively love English Cheeses, Ales and Bitters. As one who would gladly LIVE on cheese alone, I would gladly be an avid reader, reviewer and contributor.. mmm, stilton, wensleydale, Shropshire, Cheshire.. mmmmmmmmm.. I positively dislike Danish and German blues. This from the fellow that has (due to his healthinsanity) fat free cheese slices in the fridge.

MISTER Currie.. must you defame the name of my hero PET at the beginning of such a nice weekend.

OK, Alan, here is the challenge. Obviously 'whisky' is Scots and Canadian style whisky, whereas 'whiskey' is Irish and American Bourbon style whiskey. Are you so sure a monster, 101 proof Bourbon wouldn't spice up a nice Wisconsin, New York or Vermont cheddar???? There would not be smoke, but there would be fire. The gauntlet is thrown, gentlemen.

Obviously I am going to need to expand my cheese knowledge if I am to keep up with you gentlemen. I have yet to meet a cheddar I like, but then I've been sticking to the mass-produced grocery store brands, which may explain a lot (and will no doubt get me banished from further cheese conversations).

Please refer to actual cheese, gentlefolk. I cannot bear another one of those hypothetical bloggy cheese discussions.<p>On a related note, I have made whisky sauce for baked salmon. Good for any fatty fish. Do up flour and butter to make a fairly nutty <i>roux</i>, add milk to make a <i>bechamel</i>, add white pepper and a nip of good smokey Scotch. Maybe an herb if you are that way inclined. If you add a smidge of onion before the milk, you have whisky <i>soubise</i> which deserves a name of its own.

Or save yourself a whole lotta trouble: slice the damn cheese onto a plate and pour a tumbler of Scotch and watch football all afternoon.

I am delighted to endorse Black River cheddar.

Now thinking of a Maker's Mark bourbon bechamel.

Flea, I knew you were a man of taste. We were a Wild Turkey family until we realized that a few bucks more gets Maker's Mark, which is thoroughly heavenly. It is proposed that next year's gen x at 40 field trip goes to the source in Kentucky.
SU football hangin' tough so far, at the half.....

I know nothing of bourbon to a fault. If we go to Kentucky, we are going to the Welsh settled towns where you can get buffet BBQ mutton.

It has been a year and a half since I was at Black River. Their Maple Cheddar marks spring around here.

A number of years ago when I lived in PEC I went on a cheese tour. Empire is quite good betwixt Stirling and Campbellford for their basic elder cheddars (they make salsa cheese as well and should be fined for such). Mapledale is still my fave.

I used to go to a place called Forfar Dairy, near Smith Falls. Very nice cheese curds. Most people aren't into them, but I have fond memories dating back to my yoot. I'm a purist about curds, so I like them un-refrigerated. I also like a nice old cheddar as much as the next cheddar snob.

Nice to see Marian doing OK, with tough times in Budapest.
Syracuse football did not do OK. I am glad I listened to the rather exciting first half only, as the second half showed what a top team like WVU can do. Cornell and Colgate played here yesterday, and although Cornell has rarely won that game in recent years, they killed Colgate. And whassup with the Mets? I expect full postings and commentary on these important issues later, Alan.