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I know the scenery in the prairies can get monotonous but... "One moment, the quiet man near the back of the bus was minding his own b...

Shock first and ask questions later Imagine you're a small town cop in the heartland of America. You're responding to a report about...

A town called malice Why is it that the Excited States is viewed by many reasonsable people in other civilized countries as a sort of open-a...

Civil Cold War turning hot? The recent shooting in a Tennessee Unitarian-Universalist Church is a tragic event and as distasteful as it is t...

Throw the bum out Williams Lake B.C. Mayor Scott Nelson has decided that enough is enough. He has convinced the local RCMP detachment to arr...

Inkstained Wretches With his crabby "You goddamn kids stay off my lawn" tone that suggests he is probably wearing an onion on his ...

And speaking of "knowing what they know"... A brief round-up of the dimmer side of the blogosphere, just 'cause I'm feeli...

Logic, the Blogging Tories and Omar Khadr (expanded and revised from yesterday's intitial draft) A busy weekend this side of the pond an...

What I'm doing this weekend and you should be too, is going to the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, Texas with all the other libera...

"Epsilons don’t really mind being Epsilons” It seems that not only is John Derbyshire intent on challenging Doug Feith for the title...

A shining city on a hill Where if someone in authority doesn't like the way you look, you can disappear. Civil rights? Buddy, you ain...

This just in: Satire still dead Obviously some stereotypes have roots in imagination and legend, others walk among us. "Blessed are the...

A new spiritual leader of the moment Half-staff? I got your half-staff right here! They say it is wrong to speak ill of the dead and that if...

"I've suffered for my music and now it's your turn" Not my best performance ever, but I don't like to do more than one...

It's only torture when they do it Can we call it torture now ? From The New York Times: China inspired interrogations at Guantanamo WASH...

Drowning on Dry Land I dislike Christopher Hitchens for his knee jerk contrarianism and think he's a pompous ass most of the time, but I...

Clearly I was remiss in my earlier choices and left out some vital Canadiana - that's what happens when you blog on lunch hour! And I wo...

War on the press This article is four years old , who wants to bet the law hasn't changed?

Happy Canada Day, eh! Canada Day comes a day early on this side of the Pacific, and Tokyo in July is a bit warm for the traditional national...

Memories, misty water-coloured memories Go put on some polyester, crank up the Barry Manilow, set the wayback machine for 1974 and LET'...