Who cares? Who care that there is a new thingie that makes you hold it as you do basically the same thing you did with the old thingie - except that you sent more for the new thingie... and right after Christmas when you don't have the money. Stop stealing the money from the geeks, Apple. It's not fair and it's not nice. Don't you dare put the iPad out in neon colours next year, either. That is just cruel.

• Constitutional Violation Update: "This conduct establishes Canadian participation in state conduct that violates the principles of fundamental justice. Interrogation of a youth, to elicit statements about the most serious criminal charges while detained in these conditions and without access to counsel, and while knowing that the fruits of the interrogations would be shared with the U.S. prosecutors, offends the most basic Canadian standards about the treatment of detained youth suspects."
• It's a little funny realizing you are living in a country where you assume that the cops can take a beer from a kid when you also realize that it isn't the case in other countries.
• Monorail!
• You will like the Olympics. You will. Or else. Nothing can spoil it but you not liking it.
• If Harper packs the Senate to kill off the Senate is it really all that bad?
• And why the heck does anyone care what the PMO thinks the flaming rocket in the sky was? First climatology, now rocket science. What science has Canada's most average man not the mastered? Not just normal. Average.
• "[A] monument to creative failure."

Next week it is February. Spring training starts in February.