the woodshed

Ten steps Yeah, its been posted elsewhere and its been around for six months but to paraphrase Atrios: Naomi speak, you listen

John Cleese gets political A bit dated and UK specific toward the end, but I like his bit on extremism

New Zealand's gift to the world If I had to choose between Flight of the ConChords,the All-Blacks and Steinlager, it would be a close ra...

I am no longer the whitest guitar player in the known universe There's nothing wrong with this lesson, but I have to wonder how useful H...

But would he meet with the new Premier of French Columbia, Heywood Jablomi? So Fred Thompson finally took part in a Republican Canadiates de...

On the other hand...life is good Given the tenor of the previous post, you might think I'm depressed, pissed off, and annoyed with life ...

Why we drink This purpose of this post is partly to vent (isn't it always?) partly to inform, partly to show off my behind the scenes k...

It takes a noble man to win a Nobel Prize Al Gore and Canada's own Sheila Watt-Cloutier are being touted as possible winners of the Nobe...

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...