Saturday, September 30, 2006

Afghanistan update

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The Asia Times has an interesting article about Afghanistan -- interesting as in the old Chinese curse "may you live in interesting ti...
Friday, September 29, 2006

Canadian Bacon

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Harper was so anxious to get the softwood lumber deal in place by this weekend that he was going to use $1 billion of Canadian taxpayers...
Thursday, September 28, 2006

Who would be proud of what happened today?

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MSNBC describes it as the "bill on terror detainee trials" while AP calls it the "detainee interrogation bill" and CNN ...

Why Conservatives Can't Govern

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Via Suburban Guerilla, we find political scientist Alan Wolfe's summary of "Why Conservatives Can't Govern" . Here's ...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Great line of the day

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From Tristero at Hullabaloo : David Ignatius asks, in a genuinely stupid column, "How do we prevent Iraq from becoming a failed state? ...

Still crazy after all these years

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So I guess the Star Phoenix thinks that improving working conditions for rural women in Saskatchewan is too 'strident" and "o...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Great lines of the day

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Juan Cole : Bush told Wolf Blitzer he thought Iraq was a comma . . . But Iraq is very clearly an exclamation point. Now you know why the wh...

Shorter Canadian Press

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CP thinks this is a news story: I can't be bothered to examine the actual merits of any arguments against the Tory spending cuts. Its j...

I'll stick with coffee, thanks

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What a place to find a drowned bat! Reminds me of a story -- What's worse than finding a worm in an apple? Finding half a worm in an app...
Monday, September 25, 2006

Pointy-Haired Boss

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Two weeks after 911 , Bush reportedly described his job this way: "I have to manage the bloodlust of the American people." Well, I...

Bad idea

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Allowing this rally to be held is stupid. What is the point? To make everybody even angrier? Yeah, that will help cool things down and r...
Sunday, September 24, 2006

Beliefs

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If your beliefs have turned you into a sanctimonius, judgmental know-it-all jerk, then maybe you need to change your beliefs. “It’s time to...

Don't let the door hit you on the way out

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Shorter Eddie Goldenberg : Is there some way I can continue to screw up the Liberal party? Why yes, yes there is .

Pining for the fjords

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My husband and I realized the other day, while watching a Monty Python episode from 1969, that we have spent our adult lives using Monty Pyt...

The "model" for the Middle East

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Shattered and bloody, brutal and dangerous -- has Iraq already become a "model" in the Middle East? When the neocons and Bush prat...