Would it have been too much to ask to have this published on one of the other six days of the week?  •  “Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once-battered worldwide terror network and over the past year have set up a band of … read more »

Tyrannies are not great hot beds of the giggles. Sure there were those in the dictatorships of, say, South American junta, Nazi Germany and South Africa under apartheid who got the best seats and access to champaign but overall they were not really known as fun houses. That is the problem facing …

When I was seven, I had to go to the hospital in North Sydney. I had something but the doctors couldn't figure out for a week they poked around me, one day taking so many blood tests that they ended up having to hold me down. They ended up figuring it out and I was out in about ten days. Andrew …

These sorts of passive weapons are always interesting. Mini-badman Noriega will be released this year and he was brought down by amplified heavy metal as much as anything...or was it Wham? But with it well below freezing out, I want the home edition of this puppy:  •  “The prototype weapon … read more »

We don't have these. We have the Speech from the Throne. We get to be told, not have an explanation given to us. Ours are never remembered as we know to expect them to be diverted from, losing their value faster than an new car driven off the lot.  •  But we Canadians watch these things southern …

This is how dopey the all-fear-all-the-time set can be. Apparently the recently rounded up included a "leader" - quotation marks required - who was going to set El Norte ablaze:  •  “A Toronto man who infiltrated a group accused of plotting terror attacks on Canadian targets, including Parliament …

I have to admit, I like China's style. What other nation would spend a bazillion dollars to smash its own lo-fi satellite out of the sky with a lo-fi ICM with its steering wheel removed, aimed only up.  •  “China’s apparent success in destroying one of its own orbiting satellites with a ballistic …

Friday is the new Saturday in the work world. Remembering working Saturdays in the years of schlepverk, retail wages funding weekends reminds me of dressdowns and finishing the afternoon ending with the Beat Authority:  •  Make a flake. Go ahead. You know you want to. Post them on the fridge in … read more »

This is great. Four years of war and thousands dead to create a democratic foothold - and this happens:  •  “Giovanni De Stefano, a member of the men's defence team, said he heard the news from a colleague in Baghdad. "I was stunned because we were assured there would be no executions until at …