the woodshed

Since no one is using it, maybe we could rent out the building   It might make a good homeless shelter this winter. "Canada suffered it...

Vive la revolution de sirop d'erable! All praise to Skdadl for coining the phrase "Maple Syrup Revolution" to describe the cu...

We interrupt this revolution... In these difficult times, with Canadian soldiers at war in Afghanistan and the world economy turning to shit...

Buh Bye Steverino! With friends like these who needs to worry about the possibility of a coalition? Stephen Harper appears to be poised ...

Vote, you click monkeys, VOTE! The first round of voting is over for the Canadian Blog Awards and as the dust settles, The Galloping Beaver...

Faster Pussycats, Kill! Kill! Now that it seems like the opposition leaders can at least agree to be, y'know, oppositional and all, form...

A blacker Friday than most Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people? On the bright side, I suppose a few people saved a dollar and a h...

More weekend music Some recent discoveries I'm enjoying Jake Thackray - the Bull Roy Zimmerman - Defenders of Marriage Billybob Neck - C...

40 years ago A little seasonal something for our friends south of the 49th parallel. And still relevant and just as funny after all these ye...

Canadian Blog Award While the Woodshed has once again been tragically overlooked by the members of the academy (in other words I never got a...

Live or Memorex? Remember those ads with Ella Fitzgerald and the taped voice shattering the glass? The Onion has crossed into that same terr...

Change we can believe in Paging John Hinderaker , John Hinderaker to the white courtesy phone please....

Ending torture should be painless I don't expect the Obama presidency to be an endless parade of magic sparkling ponies and cake for al...

This week in Blogtopia While I've been spending much of my time since the U.S. election dining on the sweet schadenfreude of the wingnu...

Really, how dumb are they? You know, for people who claim to hate marxism and communism so much, and think it is so vile, who consider it wo...

Obamarama! Regular readers know I am a proud Canuck, but as the Flying Spagetti Monster is my witness, I swear that if Obama opens his inaug...

It ain't over 'til it's over, but believe me, it's over With 24 hours before the polls even open, I feel confident in predic...

Mon pays c'est ne pas un pays, c'est hiver While the whole world holds its breath waiting for Nov. 5th and I ponder whether it is ti...

Eternal vigilance and all that you know...

Excuse me, I think I have something in my eye Seen somewhere in the blogosphere: "Rosa sat so Martin could walk. Martin walked so Barac...