We stayed up for the whole game. What the hell is the dea with the 8:25 pm starts? The game ended at 12:45 am. It's a work day for flibbertyjibberty's sake - though there is some question whether Friday is still a work day. After game one, I heard Joe Morgan on ESPN radio say that he didn't care …

Because, you know, we wouldn't want anyone to miss out on making an insane windfall profit or anything. Canada was built on a cornered marketplace and monopolies. Our current tidal wave of fantastic resource-based revenue continues that tradition. Why deny our anti-free-market heritage?

I just heard that on Watertown NY morning TV as a description of a humid day. That is up there with the Pictou Co., NS phrase "it was darker than the inside of a cow."  •  ...and are they "mash potatoes" or "mashed potatoes"?

Having roofed before, as with laying large amounts of sod, I do not do it any more. As you might be aware, I am what is known as not handy half by choice. It is not because I am lazy or fabulously wealthy but when (not if) I made a mistake I would likely leave it and then would hate that mistake …

A new $320 canoe has been sighted. Ungabelievable.

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 …

When I saw them I knew that I had to have them. Could one buy such a thing in Canada? I have no idea but from now on this is the one thing that I will think of when I think upon how great it is to live in an economy driven by consumer product acquisition. Click on the picture for a bigger view.

“Here we are now,  •  Entertain us!”  •  More news out of some trade show that the world demands to replicate kids copying the deaf dumb and blind kid playing pinball from Tommy even though we all know the kids are really like the kids in Quadrophenia:  •  “The head of the world's biggest maker of …

You have to suspect any article that includes quotes like this:  •  “I don't think people will recognize the work force between today and 10 years from now in terms of...the way we work, the people who are engaged in the work force and the work that people are doing.”  •  You can replace work and …