Well, that is another week in the books. My halfth birthday is past history now, the Mets are out and there is a bed sheet ghost hanging in the tree out front. What a game that was last night - tied from the first to the ninth 1-1, then the Cards pull ahead in their last at bats and the Mets lose …

Amid the gnashing of Tory teeth over their own decision to turf Garth Turner has popped up the delicious idea that our former Finance Minister will now become Canada's first member of Parliament for the Greens. Sure it came from brother Doug, usually not a hot national news source despite his …

You know he would double dip the chips if you invited Kim Il-sung over. Nick the trinkets and baubles from your bookcase when you weren't looking, too. Look in the medicine cabinet. Why? Be cause we are all apparently at war with him so he don't care no more.  •  “Satellite images indicate North …

“North Korea immediately rejected the resolution, and its UN ambassador walked out of the council chamber after accusing its members of a "gangster-like" action which neglects the nuclear threat posed by the United States. Ambassador Pak Gil Yon said North Korea wants talks but warned that it will …

So why are they bullet points anyway - or power point or power users for that matter. We so love to give ourselves the blue ribbon. They are not bullet points. They are dots. Dots on a screen. Just as we are not power users but geeks and power point is a reminant of the video dance party. Stare at …

In the bizarro Bondian bad guy world we are living in, Japan seems to be taking the step we all should support:  •  “ Japan took steps to punish North Korea for the test, prohibiting its ships from entering Japanese ports and imposing a total ban on imports from the impoverished nation. North …

Up so late and spun by the odd bug that both robs and demands sleep, I am struck by how there is so much passionate advice being given about about YouTube and Joe Torre but no one has a clue what to do with North Korea. To be fair, we do not yet know whether the boom that was the size of half a …

Is it coincidence that the North Korean regime chose Canadian Thanksgiving to play the nuclear card and perhaps move the international goal posts? I think not.  •  “North Korea faced a barrage of condemnation and calls for retaliation Monday after it announced that it had set off a small atomic …

You do get the sense that there hasn't been a fish in North Korea for the best part of a decade but one does wish their soldiers would be more careful:  •  “A midday incursion Saturday by North Korean troops into the southern side of the no-man's-land separating North and South Korea only stoked …