Posts Tagged: Non-partisan blog posts
Monday Morning Quarterback: Victoria Day Edition
Posted by on Monday, May 19, 2008 in - 1 comment
Is there a lazier day than Victoria Day. First it celebrates nothing we much like any more - social frigidity and colonial empire. Then there is that honest truth that for most of the Canadians out there, you have hungover. May 2-4 and all that. God has even blessed us with a rainy day so there is …
Victoria Day's Weekend's Very Own Bullets
Posted by on Friday, May 16, 2008 in - 3 comments
May two-fer. That is the level to which the legacy of England's fourth best • Queen has been relegated. Drunks at the cabin. I know one. He's there already. • While I prepare to go to my day's labour. It's going to rain all weekend, too. • No gardening for me and less fishing for the man in …
Manny's High Five
Posted by on Thursday, May 15, 2008 in - 3 comments
Which of you do not love Manny??? Manny is to be loved. • Ooops - it's already down. Try here and here and here.
No One Told Chuck About That Other Building
Posted by on Thursday, May 15, 2008 in - 2 comments
Errr...you're telling me no one is doing this on our side yet?? • “...an Air Force colonel is suggesting the U.S. military build its own “botnet,” or network of remotely controlled computers, to be ready to attack the computer networks of foreign enemies. The proposal Col. Charles Williamson III …
God May Love Aliens More Than Us
Posted by on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 in - 4 comments
There must be plenty of fun around the water cooler when you work at the Vatican's observatory: • “Writing in the Vatican newspaper, the astronomer, Father Gabriel Funes, said intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space...The official Vatican newspaper headlines his article …
Too Slow For The Funny Mens' Health Headline
Posted by on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 in - leave a comment
At supper time last night, the headline read "If stressed, men more likely to crave alcohol than women: study" but not any more. I think the first draft was more honest. It seems to be tough news all around for stressed men as they also suffer from significantly higher heart attack rates …
Monday Morning Quarterback: Coco Goes Wild
Posted by on Monday, May 12, 2008 in - 4 comments
Even with the split over the weekend, it feels like the Sox are not quite in the groove. The knuckleball wasn't there for Wake yesterday. Lowell is sputtering after being WS MVP last year. Sure they are on top but, really, you can't be dwelling on that. Nonetheless, Coco was gorgeous. An easy …
Captain Scarlet: Understand This, Understand All
Posted by on Friday, May 9, 2008 in - leave a comment
Episode 1, Part 1 • Episode 1, Part 2 • Episode 1, Part 3 • Captain Scarlet.
The One Set Of Friday Bullets You'll Need Today
Posted by on Friday, May 9, 2008 in - 3 comments
May. Almost mid-May. This is the best part of the year, right? Is there anything better than the pre-black-fly world? It's like mosquitoes (is there an "e"?) don't exist, let alone wasps and hornets. It's still all about the plants but not quite yet the mowing. May is a time of imagination … read more »
What A Surprise - Putin Is Appointed As Prime Minister
Posted by on Thursday, May 8, 2008 in - 1 comment
Did you know the Russian constitution barred two consecutive presidencies for one person? No wonder the Putinese powers have placed him as Prime Minister. I wonder how long the gap has to be? Can he be el presidento, say, next Tuesday and the week's intermission be enough to satisfy the …
