the woodshed

Game on! Ontario is already going to the polls in October, but it looks like we may be facing a winter election in the Great White North. I...

Clowns for all seasons St. Thomas More, the man for all seasons, was entirely correct when he said "The devil, that proud spirit, canno...

Death to all violent extremists! I agree with Pete King , but not in the way he might think. He says: There are too many mosques . Imagine t...

Listen and repeat: Karma's a bitch, ain't it? Branch closings dim Nova's future The Yomiuri Shimbun English-conversation school ...

Offensisensitivity Many have tried over the years to craft the perfect response to the stunned cunts who complain about bad language and inc...

A bloggy night in Tokyo town Hola amigos, it's been a while since I rapped at ya, but I've been busier than Rick Allen trying to pl...

Akash Bhairab is my co-pilot Faith-based aircraft maintenance , an idea whose time has come...and gone. I think I'd rather walk. Go ahea...

CPC - Criminal Party of Canada Remember how Harper and his gang of merry conservatards won the last election by running around calling the L...

Like Lee Harvey Oswald, he was acting alone An update to the story about the Conservatives appointing "local representatives" in r...

Serious Ontario Politcs blogging Brent speak - you listen! Commentary on the upcoming Ontario election from a Green perspective.

How about now ? Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom they say, and also of blogging. I took a few days off blogging this week to deal w...

Okay, can we call call them facists now? Digby turns over a rock and shines a light on the brownshirts of the group Family Security Matters ...

British General says "Bring the boys back home" When the commander of the army says it's time to pull the troops out , it'...

Stranger than Fiction This is just too bizarre to have been invented from scratch -- I'll be interested to see how much of it checks out...

Spies and spirits haunt Gibson's 'Spook Country' Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Spook Country By William Gibson G.P. Pu...

"The mother, the father, the serpent, the priest. The foreman, the woman, the widow, the beast. " One for Peter "Chainsaw...

"I never heard anybody up on murder charge try to pin it on Pete Seeger" I was thinking about a guy from my old stomping grounds i...

Some like it hot I don't. I grew up in Sault Ste. Marie, north of the Great Lakes, in a grassy subdivision where everyone had a lawn and...

Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer To mark the opening of the their chain of clubs, the bookers for Billboard have scored something ...

Head rat to leave sinking ship The man alternately known as Bush's Brain and Turd Blossom (and who says it wouldn't be the same thin...