These thaws are coming in very nicely. It was -18 C yesterday but it will be plus 40 F tomorrow. I can't explain why I am better with Celsius below zero but Fahrenheit above. Just another of my wonders. I think it is going to be OK. After all, I have gotten this far into winter and have not actually done anything wintery except shoveled snow and taken my life into my own hands on the hill from Hell. The cast comes off on the 19th, by the way.
- WTFF Update: Why did no one mention this before?
- Update: Surprise! You in fact can fail.
- It is always interesting to note how irrelevant the blogosphere is. This column in the Globe points to an interesting fact about Canada's recent Federal budget that stripped the ruling Conservatives of all vestige of conservatism - while bloggers fret over "principle", actual conservatives love it: "Mr. Harper could have nationalized the oil companies, abolished the monarchy and legalized bigamy in the budget, and most Conservative voters would have held their nose and supported it." Brilliant.
- Looks more like inactivity songs to me.
- In a related question, what exactly are the folk songs of New York?
- If I was from PEI, which Mike Duffy may or may not be, I would be livid at this pig of a man who was plucked from the world and placed in velvet without, apparently, any concern for the obvious conflict of interest he must have been harbouring for yoinks. Leaping from being the secret partisan in the sheep's wool of a journalist to being a obscene lout in the Senate. Reason enough to abolish the place.
- Does Mr. Taylor, our man of empire, have his own copy of Hints to Travellers?
I need a coffee mid-post.
- It is beer blogging Friday and we have added a Twitter thread to see if it makes any sense.
- Reason enough to accept Gitmo detainees, as far as I am concerned.
- Finally, the marketplace has discovered a way to achieve employment equity.
- I don't know if I particularly agree with the foaming at the mouth over Mr. Phelps. On one hand it is the marketer's money and they are looking for a easy way to drop costs. On the other, I hope all those boomers making these decisions are punishing themselves likewise for their unphotographed activities.
Surely that must be it. The Red Sox equipment truck leaves Boston for Florida today. I got my tickets for Canada v. USA this week. Summer is a'comin' in. Loudly sing coo-coo.
Comments
David Janes - February 6, 2009 10:19 AM
I would be livid at this pig of a man who was plucked from the world and placed in velvet.... Without a doubt, the angriest thing you have ever written! Today you are a blogger, my son.
Alan - February 6, 2009 10:22 AM
Angriest? I had no idea. I blush.
Ben (The Tiger) - February 6, 2009 12:47 PM
Wow, that's one heck of a maiden speech for Duffy.
But really, Alan, it's no different from all the lefties we've seen in journalism who sign up with their favoured political party when the time is right. Just doesn't happen to go in the usual direction, that's all.
Alan - February 6, 2009 1:21 PM
That has nothing, however, to do with the decorum of the office. To choose to use the imagery of illicit copulation in a speech before the Senate describing political disagreement is the act of a pig.
Temujin - February 6, 2009 3:59 PM
Mr. Harper could have nationalized the oil companies, abolished the monarchy and legalized bigamy in the budget, and most Conservative voters would have held their nose and supported it.
That's true of voters in general, not just Conservative voters. A while back I asked the conservatives at Dust My Broom why they continue to support this man and this party, despite the fact they are nothing at all like what they expected. "Incremental change" was their response, though they admit he is incrementalising in the opposite direction.
Bloggers are unimportant and irrelevant to people who don't read blogs. It seems as though the majority of voters do not read blogs. Though I could be mistaken.
As far as the piglet goes, what about free speech? :-)
Chris Taylor - February 6, 2009 5:22 PM
Sadly I do not have a copy of Hints to Travellers, but I am taking steps to rectify that.
As far as Puffster goes, I am with Ben. It is hard to get the outrage ginned up about his remarks, given the kinds of slander the Liberals used to deal out routinely to the Opposition, our men and women in uniform, our southern neighborus, et cetera. Could have used a better analogy.
On the other hand it is damn funny anytime anyone sticks a pin in thin-skinned Danny Williams. It is like poking a bee's nest. If I had millions at my disposal, I would run daily full-page "F**k you, the Hon. Danny Williams" ads in every newspaper in Newfoundland, no matter how small the circulation, just to see the hissy fit that would follow. He is just one of those people that are fun to harass solely on the grounds of how fast he goes from zero to nuclear.
Jay Currie - February 6, 2009 7:39 PM
LOL Chris. Of course our Danny would probably just buy every newspaper in Newfoundland.
Alan - February 6, 2009 8:33 PM
Like Harper doesn't. I prefer my politicians expressive rather than repressive.
Alan - February 7, 2009 11:45 PM
Apparently, he is an indecent pig, too.