the woodshed

...and btw, has anyone managed to get a comment from loud and proud anti-elitist populist John "Foghorn of the People" Baird o...

A little mood music... ...and a special thanks to Theo for the seasonal postcard painting & poem.

Today's headdesk moment comes to us courtesy of The General , who recently came to the attention of s ome genius at CounterPunch, who...

For starters, they are much bigger crybabies . Michael O'Hare delivers the initial scolding and Brad Delong administers t he much neede...

First, conservative propagandist Kory Teneycke finds someone has placed a pistol with a single round on his desk at   voluntarily steps ...

If this is the biggest complaint the Parti Quebecois has, then I think we can safely start throwing soil on the coffin of the notion of an ...

A Bit of Fry & Laurie

Pretending to be reporters, that is. The new head of the Ontario Provincial Police says it is against policy for officers to pose as journa...

Video by Pale over at ACR with some assistance from fellow Galloping Beaver inkstained wretch Alison of Creekside . Needless to say, I wo...

Don't the White House press corp have more important things to write about? Like the two wars America is involved in or the ongoing econ...

One of my favorite poems by one of my favorite poets re-enacted by one of my favorite rock singers. I met Al Purdy a couple of times whe...

35 years ago, this was comedic exaggeration, now it's pretty much par for the course on any cable news program and is restrained compare...

Make that the kilo-stoned kops. Via Cathy from Canada we get another example of the boys in blue burnishing their reputation for trustworth...

We've all arrived safe and sound at our new home on and native land at an undisclosed location in Southern Ontario. And most of our twe...

Moving day! See you all soon in the Great White North! Sayonara Tokyo!

the more traditional version the slightly more contemporary version

A few days at the in-laws and then...