the woodshed

"Where else would you go when you have an ax to grind?"

Thursday, December 16, 2010

In which aspiration gets followed down a dark alley by reality

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and wakes up with a headache hours later in dumpster without its wallet, watch, cell phone or pants. People wonder why reporters h...
Monday, December 13, 2010

hey, all you kids out there

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here's one for you to watch and practice the next time yer down at the rink. The great Jack Todd, the Montreal Gazette's best sports...
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Thursday, December 09, 2010

Clearly I woke up in some sort of alternate dimension this morning...

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I...uh...holy sh...I mean...WHAT?!?! If my life were an old cartoon (and it often seems that way) this is the part where I would reach in...
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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Down the memory hole

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I had kind of an odd experience today at work and I'm not exactly sure how I feel  about it. I work for a newspaper (it's not a very...
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In which I channel David Letterman...

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( I know I said I wouldn't blog about my new job - and I'm not. This is more a reflection on my long history in the newspaper busine...
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Lest we forget

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I came across this video recently - it was made for a United Church service and inspired by the reminiscences of a man who navigated bombe...
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Monday, November 08, 2010

More like 'UNwanted"

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To be honest, I don't want Philip 'Flip' Benham.  He is not wanted. I do NOT want anyone to lay a finger on this guy. What I r...

I suppose this is just class warfare

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After all, that is what the wealthy and their minions call it when we complain.  I am absolutely disgusted by this , but I can't say I...
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Friday, November 05, 2010

Pride - and a loud mouth - goeth before a fall

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Like many posts, this started as a comment and metastasized. For the post to which I was reacting, go here.    It's a shortish post by J...

Best idea since bite size chocolate bars

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Okay, so it's a little late for this year, but this is the best Halloween idea I've heard since, well...ever. Tweet
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Teabaggers gone wild

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Anyone surprised by this hasn't been paying attention. But don't lets accuse the Tea Party or the right-wingers or the Republicans...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

the obligatory Rob Ford post

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The Mound of Sound had the best headline on the topic I've seen and my fellow inkstained wretch and once and future podcast guest Boris...
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Monday, October 25, 2010

My cover letter is considerably blander

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In October 1958, a pre-fame Hunter S. Thompson applied for a job at the Vancouver Sun. The Ottawa Citizen recently published the quintessent...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Back in the saddle again

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I am finally gainfully employed once again. And once again, it's with a community newspaper. I looked around for work outside the news...
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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Boo-frickin'-hoo

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If "Officer Bubbles" really wants to put an end to the shame and embarrassment he suffered as a result of his idiotic actions at t...
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Blame Ignatieff!

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We take you now live to the United Nations for a Press Conference with Stephen Harper, his hand puppet foreign minister  Laurence Cannon, s...
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Monday, October 11, 2010

Welcome to my nightmare

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From the Windsor Star we glean another good reason to hope my inlaws don't get sick.  Not just because I love them and wish them well, ...

because you can't always be in a good mood

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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving

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Dear wealthy denizens of Western society, Stop bitching on your smart phone about how the valet scratched your Lincoln Navigator while par...
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Friday, October 08, 2010

Do we still have a right not to have confessions beaten out of us?

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Seriously, because if we don't have right to have a non-police witness of some kind present at our interrogation by the police , then in...
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