If we do end up having an election, the open secret in Canadian politics is that most people want things to remain exactly as they are. The worst thing that could happen to the Tories would be an early spike in the polls as that would inevitably be followed by a horrified reaction, akin to the …

Doesn't February cling on this year, demanding one 24 more hours before we get to the month of hope? Well, February is half over as of noon today. I hate February. I really don't know why particularly as there never were exams or a rush to get a paper out. Never a particular drain on the budget or …

Three faces of angry  •  What a gorgeous photo atop The New York Times's report on the Clemens testimony before Congress yesterday. The night's sports talk radio was hot with the response of fans as to the treatment one of the greatest of all time received as well as the treatment one of the …

Has it come to this?  •  “Obama, McCain both win. (Yawn.)”  •  We have to remember that this is not bad given that four years ago, it was George Bush and John Kerry. Both Obama and McCain are the sort of leaders who have put integrity, leadership and vision on the table and are staking their claim …

I suppose the 45 rpm manufacturers associations of American scrambled to find other ways to market the seven inch disk with a hole in the middle, too:  •  “But Texas Instruments, the chip maker that developed the digital light processor most commonly found in most rear-projection TVs, is holding …

I got to tick two new to me diners off the list during this weekend's central New York, The Glenwood Pines Restaurant in Ulysses down near Ithaca as well as the Crystal Restaurant in downtown Watertown. I think the first place dates in part from the late '40s while the second is an all-1920's …

Four thousand posts. Why do I do this? It's just a cup of coffee in the morning. A way to get things going. I've met a lot of interesting ideas as well as a lot of tedious egos along the way but the best thing's the incredible strength I have developed in my fingers. My God they are huge. More …

...yet a work day, too. Consider the sound of snow being shoveled as the cogitations of this morning.  •  There. That makes 3,999.

You know it is bad when even Wolf Blitzer, the man whose name I cannot say or even think in anything less than a shrill staccato scream with a Bavarian twist, can't inform me. I have been looking for a diagram which best captures the results of the Super Tuesday primaries and not been satisfied …