This is quite amazing. I wouldn't have imagined that someone has had a legal right to the rain that fell on your property but they are dealing with that sort of right in Colorado just now:  •  Who owns the sky, anyway? In most of the country, that is a question for philosophy class or bad poetry …

Too much to think about this morning. Never liked Ed McMahon. Never owned a Jack Michaelson album. Never had the Farrah poster. That Governor of South Carolina must be thanking his luck stars for short news cycle and Google's limitations as must be the Senators of New York. It's odd how we …

Forget the fact of who the case involves. Forget the politics. The Federal government has made the most extraordinary statement as it relates to your rights under the Canadian constitution:  •  The federal government is telling the courts to back off when it comes to the Omar Khadr case and leave …

Simply unbelievable:  •  Kim Barker, public health adviser for the Assembly of First Nations, told the Senate committee on aboriginal peoples she was “devastated” when she first heard that health officials were spending precious time debating the wisdom of sending hand sanitizer – which can … read more »

It's not the Doctor Who aspect to the story that is so interesting but the reminder that what the electronic and digital ages have really provided is the archive and with it the repeats:  •  Overall, it's impossible to divorce the Target books from the period we are talking about. Scarcely … read more »

Just as the Victorians made moose out of stone, apparently people from space made the rest stops along the 401 in the 1960s. They bled the local landscape for materials but applied their off planet design. What I really like is that the Ontario historic events plaque seems to have been installed … read more »

So how did spring 2009 turn out? We hardly judge them, springs. They are a gift after the bleak second half of winter. They convey none of the foreboding that can even creep in around mid-July. It's all give, give, give. Except it was cold. We had the air conditioning on for one day the whole time …

Ben has been a far more attentive blogger than me these days. He sits in the capital of the United States and been thinking about the power play(ette) between the PM and the LOTOO (my new favorite acronym) over UI which was scandalously changed to "EI" yoinks ago. But I don't care. Is it because … read more »

Having a back is like having a furnace or septic system. Hard to ignore when it gets whingely. It's been a while. I'll need to re-establish the sitting up regime. The pre sitting up world was very whingely.  •  But enough about me. Maybe I will look into those ferries on Craigslist as the meds … read more »

This is the problem with averaging: June's more than half done which means it's almost over which means it's almost July which means the year's half done which means which means it's almost over which means it's almost 2010 which means the decade without a name is almost over. By this logic I am …

Great googly-boogly! Nova Scotia has not collapsed economically since either the recession or last week's victory by the NDP:  •  As the recession has taken hold, wreaking havoc in the North American job market and gutting home equity, Nova Scotia actually seems to be getting stronger. It had the …

Yesterday David suggested by twit twenty years from now is all science fiction. Which made me ask how long back do you have to go for this present day to be the past's science fiction. Whose sci-fi future do we live in? Is this the 1964 unbelievable or the 1989 one? Every home does not have a …

If they never beat the Red Sox this year but win the division, that would be something I suppose. After all, they have lost all seven to the Sox so far and are only one game back. Yet it's how they lose that is so entertaining. Consider situation with Chien-Ming Wang:  •  Wang faced 17 hitters …

Didn't they also once call someone Uncle Joe?  •  “Darrell Dexter is starting to look like the avuncular Nova Scotia leader,” he said in the early days of the campaign. “It's like Nova Scotians are looking for a friendly uncle, someone you'd like to have over for dinner or a kitchen party …

Comforting is the news this morning that soon every mall security guard will have a little widget that will allow them to scan you with microwaves as you pass through the aisles:  •  British scientists have developed a portable microwave scanner to help police identify individuals carrying …

Two Interesting articles in recent days on how non-participatory Web 2.0 has turned out to be. Apparently Twitter is all about watching and doing not that much yourself:  •  A tiny fraction of those who use the fast-growing social network phenomenon Twitter generate nearly all the content, a …

Not only did the Wizards win but we did, too. Seeing as we've been to maybe six or eight games in total winning the 50/50 draw twice is clearly a sign that I am in good with the Druids of sport. Got the quasi-annual family photo with Mel Busler who was good enough to say "wow - have you guys …

Better late than never.  •  In February we dream of a day like this: 22C/73F, sunny, Friday. Also, lawn is relatively mowed but for the dandelions, going to a Wizards game tonight and planning on pie. Coconut cream pie. Somewhere between being 9 years old and forty-six, for a significant span of …

Twenty years ago I was working a summer job at law school after first year putting together the next year's materials together and did a very bad job. I was photocopying cases day after day and not checking very closely so that the upcoming first year students got to read cases where the text of …

Seeing as I am heading out to a 7:00 am meeting this morning, I thought you might enjoy this experience of time.

Despite having sourced all of my DNA there and a sticker in my passport that lets me get into the fast lane were I ever to go back for a visit, The United Kingdom is getting weirder and weirder. While the Flea has long been on the case, he's usually not safe for work or, you know, home, I can find …

Welcome to June. The halcyon days of May are over. Harsh reality slaps you back in the face. Reality like being listed as a loser on Tweeting too Hard or that you never got the passport. But things are that bad as the tragic lost plane or far less so Boyle might suggest. Shout Huzzah as the … read more »