No glib snark today. No bullet points. Where are you eight years later? I wrote this in 2003. Five years ago, I posted my comments from three years earlier made at my pal Steve's blog, Acts of Volition. Here they are again:  •  Alan McLeod  •  [7:48 AM September 17, 2001]  •  elal@pei.sympatico.ca …

I am up too early with children's shows on in the background to think too heavily about things so I ask you to consider whether:  •  03 03 03 is the square root of today. I can't recall what I was doing exactly on 3 March 2003 except that I was packing up the house on PEI to move here to Kingston …

I heard about about what was going on in the world of swimming and was was shocked to hear that Michael Phelps [Ed.: pronounced "MEE-kla FLEP-see"] is quitting because he got beat:  •  Mr. Phelps’s defeat came in the 200-metre freestyle event against Germany’s Paul Biedermann. Mr. Phelps was …

Pressed for time today but noting Jack Granatstein has a good article in today's Old and Male about the issues surrounding Canada's exit from Afghanistan scheduled for 2011. Given that it will be the year of the tenth anniversary of 9/11 in 2011, what will our exit say about what we have learned … read more »

Ben has been a far more attentive blogger than me these days. He sits in the capital of the United States and been thinking about the power play(ette) between the PM and the LOTOO (my new favorite acronym) over UI which was scandalously changed to "EI" yoinks ago. But I don't care. Is it because … read more »

They have been nuts for going on six decades now and you just never know what to do with the nuts on the block but is it more serious now?  •  North Korea, defiant in the face of international condemnation of its latest nuclear test, fired two more short-range missiles off its east coast on … read more »

When you are out looking for a social gathering, do you ever thing - hey I hope I run into a bunch of puritans? Of course you don't. And whey you look for a community to live in, do you think "Gee, I hope it only has things in it that I have already encountered." Of course you don't. So why would …

Canadian citizenship up for sale? Seven firms in tiny PEI rake in $144 million or well over half of the AIG bonus money that ignited the US? And yet it's not a story, it's something no one really cares about in Canada. At least no one other than Dan:  •  There is not 144 million dollars worth of …

Because I went to a university with a journalism school, I have undergrad pals of the highest order who work at the CBC. People I respect and like to be around. I also do not watch or listen to the CBC. If I hear the tone of certain voices, I rush to change the channel. There. That is the …