An interesting quandry from the world of beer labeling over at A Good Beer Blog. It appears the makers of all the crappiest beers in the UK have gotten together to create a "good taste" arbitration panel that just happens to focus on their smaller smarter competition. What do you think? Sounds …

Being the leftist libertarian that I am, I have a certain affinity for what Jay is writing about these days, like this one, on the theme on better regulation of the regulation of free speech - though we are not on the same page in any ways and I think he wanders in unnecessary and potentially …

I had no idea there were spam gangs out there. I was trying to figure out the headline in the context of a canned meat product before the caffeine had properly settled in:  •  The closure of a web hosting firm that is believed to have had spam gangs as clients has led to a drastic reduction in …

I just watched an odd interview on the CBS morning show at around 7:20 am in which David Frum suggested rules needed to be changed about how the media works because of the stories going around about Sarah Palin supposedly started by McCain staffers. Reporting anonymous source should be banned …

It has been an interesting week. Both the Democrats and the conservatives in the US are hopeful for different reasons: one is in power and one is in the desert. As if to inform each, it has been inordinately warm this week in the northeast of the continent. It's like all nature heralding the …

Interesting question Ian poses: if a church in the US advocates for a certain political position, should it lose tax exempt status? What are the issues? Would it not be better for churches to stand on their own? Isn't tax freedom a form of state support? As a somewhat recently reconfirmed …

Right: Levi Veney, ex-slave who lived in Amherstburg, taken at J. D. Burkes’ store, 1898. Archives of Ontario. Click for large view.  •  I am not one of those anti-MSM, "the boogiemen are just round that corner now that Democrats are here" sorts of persons that have been so tediously active in the …

An interesting story in the Toronto Star about how Canadian border guards suspect the new Nexus fast-track ID card is a conduit for smuggling:  •  The cards, along with so-called Fast cards used by truckers, are issued by both American and Canadian authorities to travellers who are deemed low-risk …

It has been crazy. Fall's first month has seen me in the car for about 5500 km, been in the States as well as at three conferences, the last of which finishes today. I think I can sustain having my brain blown by possibilities only so many times in a 30 day span. Good gatherings are quite amazing …