Swine ‘flu at the Tattoo
Overheard on Twitter: @statsgirl Swine ‘flu at the Tattoo? Sounds like a Dennis Lee book title to me.
View ArticleHarper: Mistakes happen, but nastiness betrays character
The fact that Stephen Harper mistakenly thought Michael Ignatieff was the author of a warning that Canada could lose G8 status misses the point. Substandard staff work? Sure. But at root, it was simply...
View ArticleThe curious cultural journey of “Hallelujah”
Leonard Cohen wants fellow musicians to stop doing covers of Hallelujah. “I was just reading a review of a movie called Watchmen that uses it, and the reviewer said ‘Can we please have a moratorium on...
View ArticleObama and America’s slide into a police state
Atlantic blogger Andrew Sullivan, a British immigrant to the United States whom I would describe as a principled conservative, chronicles Obama’s failure to check the America’s slide into a police...
View ArticleJames Fallows assesses Rose Garden beer
The Altantic’s James Fallows assesses the the Gates-Obama-Crowley Rose Garden pissup from a beer connoisseur’s viewpoint and finds it “mainly missed opportunities.” But then, it’s hard to get...
View ArticleRodney to the Senate? But what about Brooke?
Conservatives were furious when Premier Donald Cameron quit his Pictou East seat in a huff on election night in June, 1993. So on election night in June 2009, Premier Rodney MacDonald was careful to...
View ArticleVisual data: the digital revolution in graphs – feedback
One of the great things about running a blog is that when you write about something interesting that you know little about, readers rush in with a wealth of further information. Contrarian friend...
View ArticleWhat the headlines missed about Donald Marshall, Jr.
When then-prosecutor Bob Lutes realized he would be speaking at the same small conference as Donald Marshall, Jr., he braced himself for the rage he thought Marshall must feel toward any prosecutor....
View ArticleLocal lapses in CBC Radio’s iPhone app explained
This month, Apple approved a free CBC Radio app that offers yet another reason to own an iPhone. It will prove a boon to radio listeners not tied to their radios all day. The CBC Radio app will give...
View ArticleHitch and Maher do Raztinger
America’s most lovable atheist interviews Anglo-America’s most irritating on Pope Benedict’s cover-up crisis, and though it pains Andrew Sullivan to say it, “he’s right, isn’t he?” Moneyquote: Suppose...
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