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Yeah, because ideas like this have worked so well elsewhere in the world where there have been disputes between ethnic groups. I used to wor...

Having followed the Twitter frenzy over events in Iran and having read whatever else I could find (I would especially reccommend a few of th...

105 years ago today..... " STATELY, PLUMP BUCK MULLIGAN CAME FROM THE STAIRHEAD, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor...

but it sure as hell is being tweeted . I am ashamed to admit that my initial kneejerk reaction to seeing the first messages on Twitter abou...

There are certain individuals who used to be with the union who have since chosen to go it alone. This despite the fact that without the uni...

I can't wait to hear Bill O'Reilly and Lou Dobbs explain how these three murderous Minutemen were actually secret left-wing  socia...

I don't think Thomas Wolfe meant that phrase to be taken as literally as it seems to be interpreted by Stephen Harper's minions in t...

Sure the OPP could have waited a few hours, but then no one would have gotten arrested or injured, and how much fun would that have been? Th...

Possibly the strangest use of bandwidth I've seen in a while , but oddly comforting and smile inducing, at least until Bill Cosby comes ...

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c End Times thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Newt Gingrich Uned...

I'm not sure what music these young ladies are dancing too, and frankly, I don't really care. At least they don't look like some...

How did I not know about this? This is the very idea that won the Nobel Peace Prize a couple of years ago and now its gone viral on the int...

Wow! The girl I was so in love with all through high school and university and even a large chunk of my 20s -- you know, all those years whe...

Apologies to Greg Palast for borrowing the title of his excellent book, but how else to describe the New York State Senate shenanigans of bi...

This is from a few weeks back, but listen to Stuart McLean talks about why newspapers are important .  I couldn't agree more. I've ...

"Hey, what's that little grease stain at the bottom of that smoking crater?" "Oh that? That used to be some douche bag th...

PSA shows us how blogging is done .

The plunge continues. Veteran newspaper guy suggests a new pay-for-content model that others see as an online ritual suicide pact . Sigh.

In a week when one of the main stories in the news was about a man walking into a church in Kansas, pulling out a handgun and shooting anoth...

Apparently feeding prisoners is become too expensive for some prison systems in the U.S., so they've decided to cut back a bit, by drop...