the woodshed

Walter Cronkite was a newsman's newsman. His departure from the airwaves in 1980 pretty much ended the heyday of television news (as op...

I wonder how many people seen in this series of photos are also somewhere in this series of photos ? I also wonder why anyone would celebrat...

So Palin, who brags about being a mom like she invented it and trots her brood out at every possible opportunity, says that her family is of...

I'd like to offer Sarah Palin the same advice that usually given to people whose abilities don't equal their grand ambitions - don...

DJ Rev.Paperboy will be spinning the virtual stax of wax at the Red Zeppelin on Sunday Night from 5 pm to 7 pm (PDT/SLT) 8 pm to 10 pm (EDT...

The pulchritudinous and perspicacious Molly Lewis gives us a three part ukulele mini-musical about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Ye...

This would be hilarious if it weren't for the fact that a significant portion of the American (and probably Canadian as well) electorat...

Oh those witty conservatives , with their clever slogans on t-shirts - what a zany bunch! I think people should be allowed to wear whatever ...

Have they changed the national motto to " You can never come home again" or something ? I'm starting to wonder whether they wi...

You don't see a lot of obituaries that start like this: "Well, the aptly named Robert Strange McNamara has finally shuffled off to ...

I'm a little behind in my podcast listening, so it was only this morning on the way to work that I heard the wonderful Canada Day editi...

Talk about taking the piss. I don't think this plan is going to hold water if it is ever challenged on constitutional grounds (not that...

Much of the total traffic on this blog once came from an early posting of the video for the Asylum Street Spankers song "Stick Magnet...

Stolen from Jennifer over at Runesmith's Canadian Content , who stole it from Skwib stolen from Scott over at The Tattered Sleeve ...

I've been living in Japan for a dozen years and I've only been home to Ontario a handful of times, so obviously I don't miss my ...

While I have a professional vested interest in stylish writing and rhetorical eloquence, I still think content is more important than form. ...

There ought to be a law that allows directors and writers to chop off the hands of greedy studio execs who chop up and repackage their work ...

I don't read Kos on a regular basis, but he tweeted a few choice quotes from this bit of prize-winning hate mail he received. Glenn Beck...

I want to print a stack of these up to leave by the door to swap for copies of The Watchtower. They might make a nifty companion piece to th...

Let's see, today we have Border fail , which sounds like a bit like Boehner fail , which was about energy, which lead us to this Nomencl...