In what has got to be [Ed.: oxymoron alert!] the most excruciatingly boring Canadian election ever, it is nice to realize that today is the last working Monday left before the vote. Yes, the days have dwindled down to a precious few and the only recent trend I can see is that steady slipping of …

...and especially for you, little Jimmy.  •  We stayed up again for a speech. I like speeches so I am something of a sucker but I thought there was just the right measure of menace and warning to the Republican party that my expectation that he would govern as an unfettered independent remains in …

OK, it didn't change. It's pretty much the same as last week - but it is really like that week twenty-seven weeks back if you think about it. It's kinda eerie when you think about it like that. Or mid-May 2005. It's like that, too. Weird:  •  Georgian military update: Castle Aaarrgh knows all.Best …

I don't mind "stay-cation" except that you can't spell it without the hyphen. Better than being called an unimaginative twerb who can't get it together enough to take the family camping. I have excuses - I always have excuses. First, family reunion on Saturday. Then, the annual vintage base ball …

Part of the problem is that all the interesting stuff happens at work and I don't write about that. Add to that getting up at 7:53 am so it ain't going to be exactly an epic one today:  •  It appears the Argos suck again.I can't believe Vatican Radio is not tuning a profit.Read this ruling …

George Carlin was the funniest guy when I was a kid. Doing his TV news anchor schtick 35 years ago I remember "there was a freak accident on the highway last night. Two freaks in a van hit another three freaks in another van." And there was the time he stood on live TV (The Sonny and Cher Show …

About 35 years ago when George Carlin used to appear on TV's Sonny and Cher Show and things like that, he used to pretend he was doing a TV news anchor man reporting on quirky items - the sort of thing SNL ripped off a few years later. Once he told this joke: "Scientists have discovered that …

What is the bird that wakes up by making a call that consists of one cheep followed over a few seconds by seven to ten evenly spaced double cheeps in which the second double cheep is slightly highest in pitch, the rest following slightly lower and quieter? That is the one that made me realize I …

Episode 1, Part 1  •  Episode 1, Part 2  •  Episode 1, Part 3  •  Captain Scarlet.