Here is an easy one for the dog days of summer: was Karl Rove a force for good or evil? Remember - on his way out he called you all "the mob" as in he was not going to leave at a time dictated by the mob. When was the last time a public official in a democracy could call the people "the mob" …

I am not exactly a candidate for NRA membership but this bit of news about shutting down a Toronto university shooting range with a perfect track record smacks heavily of something very smelly:  •  “While news of the closing came to light recently, the university made the decision months ago …

A fairly alarming report in the NYT this morning detailing how the Iraqi government appears to have little interest in getting control of the rebuilding being undertaken there:  •  “ In one of the most recent cases, a $90 million project to overhaul two giant turbines at the Dora power plant in …

This, of course, is the real question, the real angle on the Conrad Black trial - the Mrs.:  •  “As the judge in Conrad M. Black’s fraud trial began reading through the verdict in the criminal fraud prosecution against him last Friday — finding Mr. Black guilty on four counts — Mr. Black’s wife …

Can there be 100 comments without ry? That was the question I asked myself last night. We have settled into a kind rapport even with our differences. Is this middle age? Yesterday at the beer blog, I cited a post that I wrote in October 2003. That's a long time ago. When do blogs hit middle age …

Humid night. Bad sleep. What to write about. I write this to write every morning, you know. That is about it. Waking up habit. Things could be worse. If what the not-convicted two in Britain are right, the face another trial while they try to explain how they were tricked by the others into being …

Benny's just doing a great job to reach out and make the world a better place:  •  “The Vatican said Tuesday that Christian denominations outside the Roman Catholic Church are not full churches of Jesus Christ. A 16-page document, prepared by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which …

How will I remember this week? How will it sit in the past? I loaded and unloaded a canoe by myself this week. I bottled a hefeweizen. I ate well-roundedly and got a decent amount of sleep. If a nuclear holocaust were to come and I survive like those few in A Boy and His Dog or even Mad Max this …

...and not teaching them to kill us? Sure we need a better statement of purpose being enunciated by the government (a point well made by Ben here) but this makes it very difficult to see how I could vote Jack in the near future:  •  “NDP Leader Jack Layton told a news conference today that Canada …