Posts Tagged: Books, Mags, Newspapers, Comics
Some Weekender Bullety Points For Yulesight
Posted by on Saturday, November 26, 2011 in - leave a comment
Yulesight. You can see the holidays coming but you are not quite connected emotionally yet. It was an interesting week. I was slagged in the British media. Beer magazine columnist with a chip on his tiny shoulders. Wrote a complaint to the publisher whose response was that they did not feel, that … read more »
Day 17: Thank Heavens The Word "Illegal" Was Removed
Posted by on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 in - 5 comments
Yesterday watching Twitter election 2011 flow by was one of the most bizarre things I have ever witnessed in politics. • Idle yapping about Iggy's wife citizenship suddenly breaks for the announcement that a confidential draft of the Auditor General's report on the G8 has been leaked and is out …
Hint: If A King Is Ruling, It's Not Socialism
Posted by on Monday, March 21, 2011 in - 13 comments
Sorry. You can't have a hereditary monarchy and pretend that's socialism: • Saudi King Abdullah demonstrated how effective socialism can be when he announced on Friday that — purely out of the goodness of his heart (oh, and also out of fear that the population might get antsy and try to oust him …
Friday Bullets For The Week The Rains Came
Posted by on Friday, March 11, 2011 in - leave a comment
Cold rains washed away the last of the sidewalk ice yesterday. With two full years now past since the deepest depths of the recession, it even has a feel like things are going to be different this year. This summer, I do things. Not like last summer. This year I will rearrange the shed. To make it …
America's Communalist Christian Foundation
Posted by on Thursday, March 10, 2011 in - 11 comments
I have been reading a lot this winter. Lots and lots of histories - mainly US but plenty about the founding of Upper Canada, too, though those texts are fewer and far between. Right now, I am reading John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father by Francis J. Bremer, a book about the first …
Friday Bullets For February's Melty Week
Posted by on Friday, February 18, 2011 in - 4 comments
Melty week. Is there any better week? Sure, it'll be under zero again tomorrow but today it's all a-melty. There should be melty week carols that we sing openly in the streets on our way to work. There should also be carols for Wisconsin state democratic senators who stay away from the assembly …
Do Rocks + Internet = Freedom + Democracy?
Posted by on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 in - leave a comment
The same photographer a few days later saw protester gathering rocks even as the blessed internet was revived. Molotov cocktails were in the air, too, some being thrown on the crowd from rooftops. What is it all about? Surely Syria won't get caught up in this, too?
Friday Bullets For The Month Of The Ho Ho Ho
Posted by on Friday, December 3, 2010 in - leave a comment
Man am I Christmassy. I am way more full of the cheer than you. The beer blog Christmas photo contest, now in its fifth year, is actually winding up already. It's a fun tradition. Fun. I seem to be more and more interested in fun. It's way better than exercise, diligence or thoughtfulness …
Friday Bullets For The Slide To Christmas
Posted by on Friday, November 12, 2010 in - leave a comment
Halloween and Remembrance Day provide an odd juxtaposition of dark thoughts, the first fantasy and the latter all too real. A huge turn out downtown yesterday for a number of ceremonies including the town's famous dueling pair of events that take place within a couple hundred yards of each other …
I Like George W. Bush A Little More Today
Posted by on Tuesday, November 9, 2010 in - 1 comment
A book tour by a former US President is always a great time for reinvention but, if this article in the Glob is anything to go by, it is really an opportunity for Canadians to feel badly about themselves in new and duller ways. Canadians right now fall into two classes of feeling badly. First …
