I hereby promise to watch CFL this season. You should too. We can spend a whole year CFL-esque, between now and when the snow flies freezing SEC-grad second stringers as Calgary plays BC in the western semi-final. Here are some of the things I note surrounding my renewed CFL interest:  •  Because …

So there you are. Half the year gone already. How many years do you have? How many half years? The days are already getting shorter, too. Gather ye rosebuds while you may.  •  Update: This SCC ruling today on defamation is quite extraordinary...and I am not sure the court cited authority for this …

It is not pretty. The decision of Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals of Chicago in the case of Conrad Black is a wonderful example of the end of a concept. The concept of the manager as hero perhaps. The end of the immunity of the executive who is only looking out for the …

This seems to be the position of the Federal Conservatives as of yesterday. See, just because Stephen Harper doesn't tell you what his policies are doesn't mean hs is not telling others:  •  "We believe in a strong, united, independent and free Canada with a Quebec that is confident ... autonomous …

In a round about way. Seems like a lawyer in FLorida is presenting Google seach requests as an authority for what makes up "community standards":  •  "In a novel approach, the defense in an obscenity trial in Florida plans to use publicly accessible Google search data to try to persuade jurors …

A Metafilter tale good enough to link to and not just to steal: the newsman who was fired for telling the truth! Sounds like a great unjust dismissal claim to me.

George Carlin was the funniest guy when I was a kid. Doing his TV news anchor schtick 35 years ago I remember "there was a freak accident on the highway last night. Two freaks in a van hit another three freaks in another van." And there was the time he stood on live TV (The Sonny and Cher Show …

I am renewed. Plenty of house repairs and family get togethers were missed over the weekend with the new toy to play with. There are a few new tricks to indenting and other XHTML still to learn but all in all it is a heck of a lot easier to play with and also to personalize. The photo above is but …

I had no idea you were so dependent. A flood of emails have struck my gmail right in the mid-section screaming "Where are the Friday Bullets???" It was tough yesterday. I don't have internet addiction so much as blog admin addiction. I get the shakes when I can't patch into the rear end of this …

There is much to learn with the new and beautiful administration system that my blog masters have blessed me with today. I am now able to manage comments with four status levels which are selectable specifically for each comment. I can set a time for a post to appear later. I have a specific …

I have to play with the new toy.

OK, maybe not the TV but can I have the car? No, maybe the shoe rack. Yes, I can be master of the shoe rack.  •  “First, the father banned his 12-year-old daughter from going online after she posted photos of herself on a dating site. Then she allegedly had a row with her stepmother, so the father …

Don't get me wrong. I realize there are places expressing your opinion lands you in jail or worse. After all, I lived through apartheid, South American right-wing dictatorships and the Cold War. But the differences between speaking and publication in the pre- and post-Internet worlds have led to …

I don't usually get caught up in the bashing of various news sources. The Toronto Star gets its share of grief from folks with a variety of levels with incoherent thought - leaving the brighter stuttering when they see the error of their ways. But this column/article/piece, for me, is worth a bit …

About 35 years ago when George Carlin used to appear on TV's Sonny and Cher Show and things like that, he used to pretend he was doing a TV news anchor man reporting on quirky items - the sort of thing SNL ripped off a few years later. Once he told this joke: "Scientists have discovered that …

I don't particularly care for commenting on other bloggers, especially the self-promoting, in large part because much of what is written is so poorly thought out but this passage by Mr. Levant in his one-man ideological battle with the community is so awful in its revision of history that it is …

Begone, little man in blue who is in the midst of losing embarrassingly!!  •  Did you see? I saw because I took a two hour holiday at the end of Friday to ensure there was no way I would miss it. I didn't wear orange and I drank German beer but I was back in the arms of the great liberal republic …

The lilac has faded. Tulips are just a memory. It's really summer now even if the calendar denies it. Now is the time of mowing and sweating. The time of bug bites and knee scrapes. Of the valuing of shade and water and a radish. Of attempting home repairs you have no business doing.  •  You know …

I took no photos so that I could pay attention to the game. But the GX40 sound recording unit would have been a better choice as, if you are interested in hearing the sound of sides of beef being crashed into each other, international rugby could be your game. The game yesterday here in Kingston …

I garden but not as much as I should or could. It's good exercise, cheap and gets you tasty stuff. It's easy - I stuff bottles of olive oil with herbs I grow and use that all winter. I am a star. Apparently my hobby is taking off:  •  “Seed companies and garden shops say that not since the rampant …

Funny how the pros do not buy the "not in the nature of the country to investigate private individuals" line:  •  “"...it's important to understand that the RCMP is alive to the fact that organized crime, some terrorist groups, are proactive – even strategic – in trying to access our public …

Have you thought about Conrad Black lately? I don't listen to CBC, which seem to have an interest in both creating him and then taking him apart as best it could, so I don't know about these thnigs but I was quite interested to read some of his thoughts about his appeal sent via email from what …

I like the heat but maybe not from early June to late September. Over 30C on Friday night and about the same today. You forget pretty quickly how cold the second half of May was and start thinking that the climate changers are right and it will be 45F by next week, 57F in August. We're all gonna …

2,370 sat with we four and watched the Watertown Wizards play their opening game for the 2008 season in the New York Collegiate Baseball League. Sure they lost 3-1 but, seeing as we were a little late to the game, we missed the only three runs that Little Falls earned in the top of the first. Lots …

What is the bird that wakes up by making a call that consists of one cheep followed over a few seconds by seven to ten evenly spaced double cheeps in which the second double cheep is slightly highest in pitch, the rest following slightly lower and quieter? That is the one that made me realize I …

I still have my lps. Somewhere I have a box of 45s and in there I know I have a few marked "promotional - not for resale." I expect half the people who ever worked for college radio do, too. My greatest regret in life is actualy that I did not lift the Toto promotional lp that contained band …

I wrote the other day about how Ontario needs to get selfish within confederation. I've noted in the past how at some point my family sends around $8,000 a year into the budget for inter-provincial equalization transfers, a position which I am both grateful and a little frustrated with. But …

Nothing like waking up real late like yesterday. I don't think I've really woken up since Friday. If it wasn't for the actual effect of getting the brain going by doing a little writing, I would have dropped this blogging some time ago. I deleted around 215 spam comments so far today and …

Oh dear. Welcome to June.