the woodshed

Ontario poised to embrace lack of democracy According to the latest polling, the effort to improve Ontario's electoral system by adding ...

Pass the salt...and the fire extinguisher I can see the advertising campaign now "Our food is so spicy, they had to call out the fire ...

Please don't hit me with this olive branch As regards the recent flame war that took place (mostly over at the Galloping Beaver) over ...

Getting a leg-up on Hallowe'en This sounds like a script suggestion for the Trailer Park Boys , and I wouldn't be at all surprised ...

Sometimes you can't even make a joke And it isn't just the mangled utterences of the preznit, it is also stuff like the lifework of ...

High School of the Americas In case you don't read Jesus' General (and if not, why not? Are you some sort of pinko subversive?) you ...

A tale of two elections With only 11 days to go until the Ontario election, John Tory seems to have been hoisted by his own petard. He trie...

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'...