Ah, standard time. Time to sleep. Time to get up not in a rush. Time for bullet points. What were we saving all that daylight for anyway?  •  Update: note the subtle underlying concept - no one is as smart as me and my friends:  •  “"I think he's a sincere and honest man," Mr. Manning said …

Could it be that the NuGovs have put their social engineering plans aside? They have actually decided that people can make their own minds up and released each family from well over 1,000 bucks of a single earner family's tax obligation on one day:  •  $201 is from each member of a couple is …

Somewhere around the archives there is a discussion about...umm... let's call it "plogging" - the political blogs - in which I insisted that it is screamingly obvious that poltical bloggers are within the line of the parties. In Canada, at least, the conservatives apparently have admitted it …

We stayed up for the whole game. What the hell is the dea with the 8:25 pm starts? The game ended at 12:45 am. It's a work day for flibbertyjibberty's sake - though there is some question whether Friday is still a work day. After game one, I heard Joe Morgan on ESPN radio say that he didn't care …

We've talked about it before but it appears that our rural overlords are now considering abolishing the Senate or at least making that the only option to reforming it. How would you vote if Mr. Segal, my Senator if such matters were more particularly regional, has his way?  •  “If a majority of …

Up way too early, the story that pops out to me is more of this stuff about being a citizen and the politics that goes along with it. Last year it was just about Conrad...again...and his need to undo his abandonment of his citizenship for the splendors that no doubt awaited him. Now, it appears …

Up half-way to the crack of noon with a very weird bug that is going around - all ache and weary, no sneezy - I was shocked to see that the per diem for John Manley is $1,200 and $1,400 a day, according to The Globe and Mail:  •  “Former deputy prime minister John Manley, who was appointed last …

I think things have gone so far in Federal Canadian politics that, as they say in Lunenburg County, the arse is out of it. The speech from the throne yesterday was on all appearances, if a little nutty, reasonably moderate...but that may well be bad. It may have been prepared to smoke out an …

I am now seriously considering taking down the Paul Martin posters in the rec room:  •  “On the eve of Parliament's re-opening, former prime minister Jean Chrétien has driven a new wedge into the federal Liberal Party with his indictment of Paul Martin as having blood on his hands over the …