I sat in the cold rain last evening watching pre-teen softball. At least it wasn't pre-teen soccer. It takes about ten years for someone to get soccer. Don't believe the parents, it really does. But softball is actually a good game when played by equals even if they couldn't find the strike zone for love or money. But it was still in the rain. The cold rain. I am not used to a spring. We went from winter to early summer back in April but now we have a spring with nippy night frosts. Just tell me the god to appease. What deity to burn a twig before. I need to BBQ for heaven's sake.
- Inkless Update: Wells does a very proper job.
- Once again, I am so proud of my Federal leadership. Isn't it interesting to consider how they could each be replaced by other Canadians and not one of them would actually be missed.
- I got invited to southeast Ohio: what to do with such an invitation?
- A very good explanation in the NYT of the science behind that awful sink hole in Quebec that killed a family this week. It've stood by the Lemieux crater. It is eerie.
- Face it - the world is running out of internet addresses because you and all your friends are watching a chipmunk eat too many crackers on YouTube.
- Speaking buckeye, I had no idea that Columbus Ohio was first settled by Nova Scotians who supported the American Revolution.
That is it. Maybe more later.
Comments
Ben (The Tiger) - May 14, 2010 11:46 AM
Well, the Revolutionary War really was just another British Civil War...
Alan - May 14, 2010 12:56 PM
Listen.
Jay Currie - May 15, 2010 3:12 AM
Why should the nosy Auditor General have a look at the books on Parliament Hill? I mean even if she found 400 million is wasted expense would anything change. Hell no. So it would be a waste of her time to bother looking at all.
Wouldn't miss one of them.
Looney Canuck - May 17, 2010 6:28 PM
If the Christian Right had the same kind of zeal and anti-scientific bent that the Americans have, then she may have a point. That being said, I am not uncomfortable with Christians of different faiths influencing public policy. I had actually read 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' years ago, and believed somewhat in it. Not as far left now, and read 'Sleeping with the Elephant' by Gordon Ritchie. I recommend the latter, it convinced me that free trade in principle is actually good for Canada, but not what Chretien did with it.
Jay, you seem racked with cynicism, and not necessarily in a smart way. You seem to say that government is inherently rotten, so why bother investigating? Government needs to be held to some kind of standard, it should not allowed to be a bottomless pit.
Matthew Fletcher - May 18, 2010 1:17 PM
"I am not uncomfortable with Christians of different faiths influencing public policy"
So you would be comfortable with Christians of a single faith influencing public policy.
Alan - May 18, 2010 2:07 PM
"Christians of different faiths"?
What's that mean?