Holy Moly. Really. Holy McMoly of the Imperial Molonians:  •  “ The widow of former B.C. MP Chuck Cadman says two Conservative Party officials offered her husband a million-dollar life insurance policy in exchange for his vote to bring down the Liberal government in May of 2005. The offer, which …

A meme! I haven't seen one of these things since 2005. Remember: it's pronounced me-me. Anyway, Jay tagged me for a little pre-Facebook nostalgia on this one:  •  “The Meme: Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.”  •  So here they are:  •  one: I only posts blog posts on odd …

Good news out of Seattle's spring training camp:  •  “He does not have an ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. None. Dickey either was born without one, or the tissue simply disintegrated when he was a teenager. A dozen years after discovery of his situation cost him a virtual …

How boring. No election. Because everyone likes that we've paid off 2.3% of the national debt while not cutting anything much. We can actually just save money now to avoid paying taxes. Yawn.  •  Canada is the nice boy your father wished you had married.

This is a big day. If the Federal Conservative Party can actually convince the nation through today's budget that they are better at rolling out the Liberal agenda, they may win the election that the Liberals may force by voting against the budget. It will be interesting to see if the tiny and …

A sad view out of the front window driving up Yonge Street Toronto this noon hour. Is there anything sadder than a big outdoor video screen that has been turned off? That wasn't in Blade Runner. Maybe the spinning LP neon signs that are either gone or busted. Oh for a barn that had the interior …

A while ago I got greased out - there is simply no other word for it...as shocking as that is - for suggesting that Canadians could more troops on the field in Afghanistan. The greasing parties were (and are) more knowledgeable and experienced in matters military and I usually bow to their wisdom …

This weekend needs it's own name - the last weekend of February when there's still a crud-dispensing storm or two floating across the continent just those jerks in grade six holding you down giving you a cherry belly. Cabin Fever Weekend. What to do? Wash the car in your shorts despite the sleet …

BFPS. I knew it. How am I suppose to emotionally meet the day when I know we are suffering from BFPS:  •  “a new survey finds the Stephen Harper Conservatives the first choice of 39 per cent of Canadians, 12 points ahead of Stéphane Dion's Liberals, at 27 per cent...The poll, conducted by The …

You could see this coming years ago. As boomers go, so goes golf. Being dedicated to golf is sorta like eating ham salad sandwiches in a public setting other than a church hall - just something you don't see anyone much under 45 taking on in a big way any more. Why?  •  “The men gathered in a new …

It's all about the new style. I need a little new style. Gotta get me some. See, universal replacement flappers won't work. It's that peg hole to flapper relationship that marks the new style. There's elevation. Gotta get me the new style.

Now that Wisconsin has fallen, how will they folks in Ohio not follow? Is this out of Clinton's control now? It is an odd race but now one at this point that the wheels are close enough to coming off that something like truth might be peeking out. Obama's website (which you apparently have to give …

Even if Stephen Harper or Parliament makes some statement, isn't the delay taken already a bit telling? We are on the side of Russia and China - and, to be fair, Spain and Cyprus. Places where the desire to be free and separate are problematic. Just to recollect, Canada had a hand in setting the …

Four years ago, all I thought of was snoozing. Three years ago I wrote about the joys of an extra day off through the good graces of the good folk who figure out what days off. I had a premonition that the western Canadian notion of "family" would move in on the space eventually and here we are. I …

An interesting stat in an article this morning about public radio and TV in the USA:  •  “Lately the audience for public TV has been shrinking even faster than the audience for the commercial networks. The average PBS show on prime time now scores about a 1.4 Nielsen rating, or roughly what the …

If we do end up having an election, the open secret in Canadian politics is that most people want things to remain exactly as they are. The worst thing that could happen to the Tories would be an early spike in the polls as that would inevitably be followed by a horrified reaction, akin to the …

Doesn't February cling on this year, demanding one 24 more hours before we get to the month of hope? Well, February is half over as of noon today. I hate February. I really don't know why particularly as there never were exams or a rush to get a paper out. Never a particular drain on the budget or …

Three faces of angry  •  What a gorgeous photo atop The New York Times's report on the Clemens testimony before Congress yesterday. The night's sports talk radio was hot with the response of fans as to the treatment one of the greatest of all time received as well as the treatment one of the …

Has it come to this?  •  “Obama, McCain both win. (Yawn.)”  •  We have to remember that this is not bad given that four years ago, it was George Bush and John Kerry. Both Obama and McCain are the sort of leaders who have put integrity, leadership and vision on the table and are staking their claim …

I suppose the 45 rpm manufacturers associations of American scrambled to find other ways to market the seven inch disk with a hole in the middle, too:  •  “But Texas Instruments, the chip maker that developed the digital light processor most commonly found in most rear-projection TVs, is holding …

Sad Cappielow tidings from Saturday:  •  “Two injury-time goals saw Clyde leapfrog Morton and the home side drop into the relegation play-off place. The Greenock side looked on course for a valuable victory after Chris Millar's deflected shot gave them the lead. However, Clyde substitute Ruari …

I got to tick two new to me diners off the list during this weekend's central New York, The Glenwood Pines Restaurant in Ulysses down near Ithaca as well as the Crystal Restaurant in downtown Watertown. I think the first place dates in part from the late '40s while the second is an all-1920's …

Four thousand posts. Why do I do this? It's just a cup of coffee in the morning. A way to get things going. I've met a lot of interesting ideas as well as a lot of tedious egos along the way but the best thing's the incredible strength I have developed in my fingers. My God they are huge. More …

...yet a work day, too. Consider the sound of snow being shoveled as the cogitations of this morning.  •  There. That makes 3,999.

You know it is bad when even Wolf Blitzer, the man whose name I cannot say or even think in anything less than a shrill staccato scream with a Bavarian twist, can't inform me. I have been looking for a diagram which best captures the results of the Super Tuesday primaries and not been satisfied …

I've been a big guy most of my life, though when I look back now at pictures of me from when I thought I was too heavy makes me shake my head. You do what you can, put down the seventh Ring-a-Ding Junior, do an insane number of sit-up yet still you get to wake up to news like this:  •  “While New …

Ok, they are nerds but this is sort of a weird look into what happens when you don't put away the telescope when you are thirteen and swap it for a healthy dose of teenage angst:  •  “They have grudgingly become accustomed to being seen as "propeller-headed geeks" who "poke their finger in the …

First, I have to admit that the situation is no unlike that song by the Smiths, "Girlfriend in a Coma", in which I always took (perhaps wrongly) a guy who has just started dating a girl, kinda likes her but that's it, faces the fact that she is in a coma after an accident and is sort of a jerk. I …

Why isn't it called The Supreme Bowl? You know: good, better, best? Good, superior, supreme? The hedged their bets that something else better could still come along, I suppose. Maybe today will prove that point, given that New England could smoke the Giants and make a snoozer of this one, leaving …

I don't know if Justice David Jenkins was a Grit or a Tory in his pre-bench life but he is a fine judge. He sat on the hearing I was involved with which led to the recognition that political discrimination had to end in Canada's last hold out for Victorian values, Prince Edward Island. I think my …

All my life I had been looking forward to January 2008 and now it's gone:  •  Dirt coming.  •  The Hall of Fame Game at Cooperstown was announced this week and it will be the last. Here's what it looked like in 2006.  •  Google's losing ad money and Yahoo's about to be bought out. It's over. Back …