the woodshed

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

Thursday, November 07, 2013

rob ford is sorry

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Saturday, November 02, 2013

I didn't want to watch this

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"Dum, dum dee dum, - yawn- kids are off to bed after watching Bringing up Baby and Casablanca with the old man, I've poured myself...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

the triangle

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Not exactly juggling, but somewhere in the neighbourhood. Some people have trouble walking and chewing gum at the same time. I suspect this ...
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Friday, October 04, 2013

Emperor Stephen I

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Seriously, can we just appoint Stephen Fry as Emperor of the Earth for Life? Sensible, compassionate, well-read, funny and one of the most a...
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Friday, August 23, 2013

Friday night music mashup

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When they aren't busy knocking on doors...

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those nice clean-cut young men with the short-sleeved white dress shirts and neckties are doing missionary work of another sort. Tweet
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Leveraging synergies while optimizing dynamic convergences

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Want to get your money for nothing and your clicks for free? Here's the plan: 1. Find venture capitalist with deep pockets 2. Write p...
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Monday, August 05, 2013

GOP still trying to work the referees

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Given the propensity of FOX news to put GOP 'personalities' on the payroll and their willingness to call close elections in favour ...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

the way to counter bad speech is with more speech - this is how it is done

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Last night, I was killing a few minutes scanning my twitter feed and lo and behold I find the Toronto Sun's Lorrie Goldstein taking a sh...
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Friday, July 19, 2013

Friday night music fix

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"we create our own reality"

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Right-wing nut jobs believe some incredibly weird shit: "Cyclists are responsible for gridlock." Only 1.3 % of Ppl rides a bi...
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Monday, July 15, 2013

Another day, another murder

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So another white guy shoots and kills another black kid , what's the excuse this time? MILWAUKEE (AP) — The attorney for a Milwaukee...
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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Cultural literacy

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I'm noticing a disturbing trend in the newspaper copy I edit. Writers are assuming a stunning lack of cultural literacy in readers and d...
Monday, July 08, 2013

Leadership

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So today, Toronto got more than 90 mm of rain in a couple of hours and low-lying areas of the city, including major highways and rail links ...
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Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Adios Ernesto

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RIP Ernest Hemingway July 21, 1899 - July 2,  1961 Your reading assignments for today are: Hemingway's 1954 Nobel acceptance s...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

Signal to noise ratio

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Look at any newspaper, watch any newscast, and compare the amount of space and time given to actual hard news (breaking events, politics,...

your Sunday sermonette

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Saturday, June 29, 2013

We are a nation of immigrants

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The Pier 21 Immigration museum in Halifax commissioned a Toronto production firm to collect about 100 immigrant stories. This is my son...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Sometimes it is the process, not the product, that matters

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Friday, June 07, 2013

Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words

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