Just kidding.  •  Please provide your ideas for any party to make a change, capture the national imagination, bust out of these doldrums. Maybe the Greens should come right out and promote attacking Yemen. Maybe the Tories should promote a useless infrastructure project in a dumb place like the …

There is a funny thing about the word ridiculous. Anyone that uses it in serious discussion makes me think of Don Rickles. Nothing in a serious discussion is "ridiculous"...yet...  •  “Prime Minister Stephen Harper defended his government's decision to pursue free-trade talks with Colombia despite …

Can there be 100 comments without ry? That was the question I asked myself last night. We have settled into a kind rapport even with our differences. Is this middle age? Yesterday at the beer blog, I cited a post that I wrote in October 2003. That's a long time ago. When do blogs hit middle age …

I wonder what the real risk is? If I was in Afghanistan, would I be pleased with the huge outlay for military stuff that will never be used?  •  “"Canada has a choice when it comes to defending our sovereignty in the Arctic; either we use it or we lose it," Harper said. "And make no mistake this …

There's that reference to the flying of the Red Ensign that I might have been thinking about last Friday - the Harper government decided to fly it at Vimy year round despite that being against the rules of protocol:  •  “Prime Minister Stephen Harper, after lobbying by some veterans groups …

Oh dear. What else can one say?  •  “In the latest administrative nightmare to emerge from Public Works Canada, auditors say high-level bureaucrats lost control of a $24-million contract with cost-cutting consultants.”

I am a bit at a loss at the political plan - you know, the plan to get re-elected. If making everyone unhappy is the road to electoral success, it seems the Not Pre-existing Government is doing a great job:  •  “The receding tide of electoral support for MacKay defies most of the rules of politics …

Why can't we make a cheaper simpler and secure tool like the US is planning:  •  “Ms. Harty said a planned introduction of a passport card - "that card will be wallet-sized and about half the price" - should ease the problem for Americans who cross into Canada for work or on day visits. The …

It appears Ottawa is awash with straws these days as there are any number of neato ideas with which one can grasp so as to make one feel better about oneself, such as this:  •  “"It's getting harder and harder to reach people through the regular media. Fewer people are watching the network news …