Of all the "-isms", extremism is the best. Mainly because it means nothing but also because in the 1990's...or was it due, like so much, to Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure that extreme became a positive. Anyway, Nixon was against it and had the CIA rooting it out in Canada in the 1970s right …

An interesting article in The Globe this morning on the recruitment of older folk, in large part established professionals, for the Canadian military:  •  “"In the last two years, our strategic intake plan has been heavily dominated by the combat arms," says Captain Holly-Ann Brown, a spokeswoman …

This is a pretty good clue:  •  “A police officer forced a young man whose clothes were deemed un-Islamic to suck on a plastic container Iranians use to wash their bottoms.”  •  Good luck if they ever try to pull that on the Australians. The question really is only are they all ready pulling that …

It is a very instructive day in the news if you are interested in constitutional law. Yesterday, the US courts confirmed the primacy of the person and the bar on making things up:  •  “The appeals court yesterday ordered the trial judge in the case to issue a writ of habeas corpus directing the …

By focusing so completely on avoiding international law, by presuming what has gone before is inapplicable or wrong, it's tough not to mess things up:  •  “...the chief military defense lawyer here, Col. Dwight Sullivan of the Marines, said he viewed the decision as having broad impact because it …

That was a good May. Good old May 2007. Caught two baseball games, worked only a couple of days in a ten day stretch and the seeds have come up. Plus the Tories in PEI got the boot which has made everyone happy. Now just wait for the fiscal review and next budget when we all find out what Pat …

In this edition, I review what I did this week and find it lacking. After being confused and disappointed by Twitter, I was simultaneously invited to Facebook by men in Alberta and Norway and I took the bait. Now I have 18 friends. I wonder whether I really had friends at all before that point …

A tough but perhaps telling comparison of neighbouring economies as GM pulls out of Massena, NY about two hours to the east but plans to expand in Niagara Falls, Ontario about the same distance as the crow flies to the west. The two plans are not related directly but we often assume that Canada is …

That is sort of what this is all about. Wake up. Read the news. Figure out what is whacky and see if I can write something. It's not so dumb.  •  It's a bit interesting that the Prime Minister has used Parliamentary privilege to suspend a court case. I would presume, as an election is not strictly …