the woodshed

Meet Conservative Senator Irving Gerstein: It's speculation, but I think it is highly likely that Conservative Senator Irving Gerste...

Ah Florida, land of orange blossoms, beaches, golf courses built on gator-filled swamps and the early bird buffet special. Home to Disneylan...

#9 Why Me? by Donald E. Westlake Is there anything as pleasurable as a midweek day off (especially a Monday?) - sleeping late, getti...

This blog has officially gone to the dogs Tweet

 The overarching goal of any terrorist or revolutionary guerrilla fighter beyond the immediate removal of a given target and the ensuing int...

I really don't think it is a stretch to say that only a conservative could come up with something this brazenly evil and stupid and then...

Never mind all the guff about Ronald Reagan. Reagan was an amiable-seeming father figure who did what his wife and her astrologer and Exxon ...

Just a couple of things for your midweek read that I happened across: If Rob Ford's opponents on council were "two steps to the l...

From Tbogg we learn that Bob Dylan has donated the royalties/waived the rights to a whole bunch of his songs for a fundraising album of Dyla...

That will teach him a lesson! And let the dire fate of  marine Staff Sgt. Frank G. Wuterich be an example to every other soldier on the bat...

with a tip of the beaver hat to the esteemed Mr. Otter, who reads & comments but does not blog Tweet

I think most reasonable people, at least in hindsight, would agree that one of the things the Liberals' got right under Chretien and Mar...

The SUN-TV news network was never intended to cover the news, it was intended to make the news. Some might even say make up the news, but wh...

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and I don't have a goddamn fireplace  to curl up in front of with a  good book while it drizzles outside (Rain? in January? in Canada? A...

#5 The Sister Brothers by Patrick DeWitt Not many reviewers can resist comparing The Sister Brothers to the Cohen Brothers' version of...

Fresh from launching a trial balloon on reopening the abortion debate that he swears he has no interest in reopening (mainly because it is ...

And a bunch of other stuff I found Now that Stephen Colbert is sort of running for the Republican nomination and outpolling Jon Huntsman ...

The United States Marine Corps -  America's No. 1 fighting force (sorry, I couldn't help it) Tweet

A little something in honour of my 50 book project. (for Dan and Tammy ) Tweet