Yulesight. You can see the holidays coming but you are not quite connected emotionally yet. It was an interesting week. I was slagged in the British media. Beer magazine columnist with a chip on his tiny shoulders. Wrote a complaint to the publisher whose response was that they did not feel, that … read more »

That is a shocking sentence to read. Gets the brain going. Here is the nub of an excellent post over at the always excellent The Last Exile:  •  Globalization was suppose to make us all free and rich. Although, it has not worked out that way for most of us. I am not any richer and my wages face a …

One of my favorite holidays of the year is the day I take a vacation day to go over to the US and help out with the NCPR membership drive. I have to deliver some prizes for draws given by helpful Kingstonians and these are received with great fanfare... or is it that they are received by exhausted …

I was on a platform in a curling rink in Summerside, PEI after giving a presentation when I heard. I got home as soon as I could and six days later I started writing comments on a blog. For some reason, we had guests from Sweden, in-laws of in-laws who didn't speak English and for a time had a … read more »

I have been waiting for this arrangement of holidays for years. We are off today so I got up at the crack of 10:15 am. The authorities have noticed. I should mow the lawn, too, but it is stinking hot. I haven't even been out yet and I know that. Then we roam. Looking forward to the Rochester … read more »

I have been writing this thing for over eight years now and, except for the beer stuff, it's been largely driven by the facts and opinions surrounding the weakness of the Federal government. Way back then Paul Martin killed off the Liberal Party by slow drip poison starting almost a decade ago by …

Here's my problem. I am looking for a post about Harper, the one with that image being used in the Liberal attack ad tonight, and I can't find it. Because I appear to have spent the last seven or eight years obsessing about Stephen Harper. Steve. Now "Hap" because I really think "Hap" is a … read more »

Yesterday watching Twitter election 2011 flow by was one of the most bizarre things I have ever witnessed in politics.  •  Idle yapping about Iggy's wife citizenship suddenly breaks for the announcement that a confidential draft of the Auditor General's report on the G8 has been leaked and is out …

Ah, the old "Gen X 40" election logo. I came up with that over five years ago during the 2005/06 campaign. Remember that? Remember when people blogged about elections and even paid people to do it? That was nuts.  •  Well, break out the 8-track player and the wide leg jeans because we are going …