the woodshed

So it goes. Kurt Vonnegut dead at 84 “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and...

Civility and polarization -- which side are you on boys, which side are you on CC has issued a call for more serious civil discussion of the...

Drat! Foiled again And we would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for that meddling CEO! Plug it in, fire it up, Mr. Presi...

Hard-luck Habs and the midget of doom Hockey season is over, let the playoffs commence -- Not that I care who wins Lord's Stanley's ...

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Ki...

Looking it up Hey all you aspiring journalists out there, this week's Time magazine has a lesson for you in how not to report a story. I...

Dumbness As the man says "They walk among us.....and breed" Apathetic Nation: these stories are likely true... sadly...

The truth might not set you free, but it will get a lot of people off your back Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, having built his career ...

Now that is what I call snark With all respect to Canadian Cynic, Tbogg, Jesus' General, Norbiz, Atta J. Turk et al THIS is what we mea...

Surrounding himself with the best people R emember when George W. Bush was running for president the first time. Remember how he couldn'...

The Custer Doctrine Apparently the U.S. Navy has taken its rules of engagement either from the Japanese defenders of Okinawa who fought to t...

And speaking of clueless neofacists... Debito has the kind of roundup I'm too lazy to put together on the charming Japanese Foreign Mini...

By any other name.. . If Stephen Harper were Mr. Potatohead, he'd be a dick-tater. Scott Feschuk nails it down with his advice to Stepha...

Dis and dat The most dangerous professor to ever play wing, maximum leader and president for life of the We Are All Giant Nuclear Fireball N...

IN YOUR EAR Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer RY COODER My Name is Buddy Warner, 2,680 yen Call it a folk opera, a roots ...

"comfort women" - the story that will not die Japanese politicians keep harping on the same nonsensical point about how there ...

Major (General) Dick "I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is okay to be immoral in any way....

Welcome home Nine-year-old Canadian Kevin Yourdkhani will soon be coming home to Toronto from the Hutto detention facility where he and Iran...

Blonde hair, brown shirts Not content with using schoolyard bullying tactics and eliminationist rhetoric against those on the left, Ann ...

Presented without comment I have kids to feed and house payments to make so I'm not going to talk about the Japanese media vis a vis Pri...