While I am dutiful most times, I missed this over at Unkabugs unt Auntie F's:  •  It will be important to know, in the coming tight times after twenty years of lavishing ourselves on credit, how to entertain. Music hall matinées will make a comeback, not needing the electricity that other …

Last night's by-elections are enough of a win for both the Grits and Tories that nothing really changes:  •  “Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River in Northern Saskatchewan was expected to be a close race. But it turned heavily toward the Conservatives after early results and Rob Clarke, an …

Well, sorta. He did say he wishes he had kept to gardening and watching TV sports. OK, not really. But he did say this:  •  “Sir Tim said he did not want his ISP to track which websites he visited. "I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to …

Being the novice masters shot putter that I am, I am keenly aware of the importance of athletic excellence. Yet I have to point out again that the connection of athleticism and the Olympics creates at best strange bedfellows and at worst a catalyst for tragedy as we are seeing this weekend in …

Another Friday. They flow by like the days of the week. A week or so from spring and still there's feet of snow. That's not exactly helping. Morton's teetering and the Orange are gone. At least things are going better for me than they are for Eliot Spitzer. WFAN had an interview with his …

The juxtaposition is pretty fun:  •  “Liberal MP Garth Turner (Halton) told reporters that when the House of Commons returns on March 31, after a two-week break, there will be a different tone. "I think there is a growing level of testosterone in our caucus, who would actually like to go and do …

Here we go again. Torynomics at its best. But they know how to run business, right - except few of them actually have. If anyone actually ran a business by making sure that revenue failed to meet expenses, well, the outcome is obvious:  •  “One thousand more combat troops in Kandahar is just the …

With more than a foot or two standing here and much more as soon as you move off the lake, there is a fat chance I am going to see a robin anytime soon so popping into the brew pub for a late lunch yesterday provided the treat of watching the Mets and the Red Sox play in a pre-season game. I was …

I don't buy seal pelts or eat flipper pie. Nor do I eat veal. But I gobble lamb and trade craft beer for venison, both chucks and ground up. I have represented a slaughterhouse. I do not rank age as a particularly important aggravating factor whatever experience of pain or disappointment that an …