Well, the car off the road situation is one thing but attacking tyranny is another:  •  The networks are the creation of a handful of North Korean defectors and South Korean human rights activists using cellphones to pierce North Korea’s near-total news blackout... The work is risky. Recruiters …

The middle brother's lot in life according to Facebook:  •  McLeod said ...  •  McLeod said nothing. He sighed, scowled and hunched his shoulders.  •  He retrieved a missing file and rewrote five headlines.  •  He inserted four nut graphs, corrected three errors, alerted City Desk to a breaking …

The months fly like weeks now. Even though there is a killing frost today and overnight, it's just a blip. February is almost a full month in the past. Summer sports sign ups start this weekend.  •  Find This Guy. Hunt. Him. Out. Update: "It's Gen X. They may look old to you but they aren't …

Hmmmm... it has to happen sometime. And we can't have signs that just say "Time for a Change!" or "Experience You Can Trust". How about:  •  "One Third Support = All The Power!";"We Are Better Than We Used To Be... Almost";"Working On The Issues Even If No One Else Cares"; "Almost Not Associating …

Is it that it is just contrarianness?  •  Why is this any different from a line as vacuous as "in America everybody wants to be black"? It's especially vacuous as the angry conservative script is about their entitlement, the entitlement to be heirs to and the sole expression of American …

Or spokeswomen for that matter.  •  So, Canada is now bad because a speech by Ann Coulter was canceled tonight. As far as I can tell the real trouble with Ann Coulter is that she comes across more than anything else as a poor thinker and a clumsy speaker. Look at what all the fuss is over tonight …

I watched the vote in the House of Representatives yesterday and was struck how was a real lesson in civility. For an issue that is undoubtedly going to "not only changes the relationship of the citizen to the state but the very character of the people" according to one famous Chicken Little {h/t …

I dunno. Wayne's World is on and on Tuesday I'll be over on the other side seeing how things settled out. Is tomorrow like the decision to accept human rights or like the decision to run two wars for a decade without funding them? I dunno.

I was in Ottawa yesterday and today on March Break stuff. So the Friday Bullets are the Evening Standard edition. And why not? If I the employers of any of you I would beg bloggers to post after the work day ends and quit this man in pajamas drinking coffee at 7:12 am stuff. Ottawa was fine. Found …

Could you imagine if this column were written by a male newspaper staffer telling us all how women lack the key capacity to blog.

I like that phrase "the rhetoric of opposition" which I picked up off a TV show the other day. I think it was about the English Civil War but it could also have been about basketball. It's really all we are about these days:  •  Whether it's correctly called a movement, a backlash or political …

Do you really think I am going to post on the Monday after the clocks go forward? It's like jet lag around our place. It's like being pushed though a wall of Saran Wrap, dehydrated and having a leg of your bed kicked by cruel elves all night. It's worth it to get the evening light but what a … read more »

There always seems to be a day off before these school breaks. The day before that is a day that nothing gets done, the ones before that focus on what you are going to do when school is closed. I will work - by comparison of significant degree - and work I will. Not with a shovel but with a …

News out of Quebec City that the relationship between French and English Canada is far more spicy and even licentious than we had imagined:  •  “Now don't get angry when I tell you that you are completely neurotic,” he said in his presentation. “You are like a sadomasochist couple. The sadist … read more »

You know there are times when you have to give the freakishly paranoid conservative panic movement a nod. You know when they say things like the nation is lost, the US is under socialist invasion, that eating your vegetables is a communist plot... well, note this out of Geneva from a couple of …

I am usually not one for the adjective "Canadian" to describe any cultural behaviour but this graph has captured it. h/t to pp. Click for a bigger image.

There was a forced march yesterday morning that led to such a feeling of well being and fundamental fitness that by mid-afternoon four of six people in the house were unconscious and snoring. There was good reason. Pre-season baseball was on the TV and what better way to celebrate that first game …

Ah, a whole work week has come and gone without any Olympics buggering up the TV. We have other things to think about... apparently. Some think we have little on our minds but I think the nation stands for more than that. Me, I stand for a shot at getting out the Weber char-bee-que tomorrow and …

It must be tough being a social engineer. All the long days and nights working at changing things to make them as the outta be and, you are convinced, as they really were at some past purer point in time. A time so pure that no one brushed their teeth let alone with minty floride paste. A time so …

Ottawa has become so irrelevant to the Canadian way of life that I thought I would try to think if there was anything a Federal budget could contain that would actually affect my life. Sadly, in addition to jurisdictional irrelevance through all patry shrinking, it is likely the current Federal …

Remember when you had that big party, spent far too much on the booze you gave to your friends, put out far too many types of corn chips and pretzels? Remember the feeling a few days later when you couldn't believe you blew a month's rent and now had nothing to show for it? Well, apparently the …

Previous celebrations: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009. It's already too late to start sprouting your asparagus seeds for 2010 planting. It's that close.