Happy Canada Day, everyone. Snap quiz, if you're up to it: 1. Exactly what are we celebrating the anniversary of? 2. Who gets top billing as "Father of Confederation?" 3. Name one other. 4. Where exactly is the Canada-U.S. border (I mean the long straight part)? 5. Why did Canadians decide they wanted a country anyway? 6. What's the national anthem? Fairly easy one. 7. What's the flag? Ditto. 8. What's the national sport? What, another gimme? 9. How many provinces are there? Territories?
I thought I'd share one of those channel-surfing moments that make you wish all TVs came with a screen-grab function. I happened to switch to TSN as they were doing an item on the end of Manny Ramirez's 50-game suspension. What immediately caught my eye was the chyron at the bottom of the screen: "suspended due to darkness."
"Holy crap, TSN," I immediately thought. "You can't say that. They caught the guy fair and square." A second or so later, I realized I was seeing the second half of a line that probably referred to the game he'd been expected to play in.
Former Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin had his day in court yesterday, seeking a reduction of his 12-year sentence for leaking classified information to two lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The same judge who initially sentenced him took...
Unconfirmed reports out of Iran say former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has resigned as chairman of the powerful Expediency Council, which arbitrates disputes between the religious leadership (Council of Guardians) and the Majlis or parliament. Rafsanjani also chairs the Assembly of...
The torch design for next year's Winter Olympics was apparently unveiled months ago. Only now have some sharp-eyed reporters started asking each other, "Hey, what does that look a bit like to you?"
Personally, I love it. It sums up in one image the best British Columbia has to offer: winter sports and B.C. Bud. Now if only the organizers can sign up gold medalist Ross Rebagliati to kick off the torch relay.
Orlando posed a puzzler yesterday: if you shut the Camp Delta prison, what do you do with inmates who have committed no known war crimes or acts of terrorism, but who still pose a security threat? How do you keep them from taking up arms or otherwise waging jihad against the U.S. and its allies?
It's triflingly simple: Ask them to promise not to.
"Huh?" I can hear you all saying. "That's crazy talk, acanuck. What's to stop them from breaking their word?" Well, first of all, the concept of "parole" has an honored place in Arab and Muslim history. It resonates.
After all the hand-wringing over Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American "free-lance journalist" jailed in Iran for espionage, can we now finally concede the obvious? She was indeed a spy. Just not a very good one. The TPM main page links to...
Why does whup-ass only come in those huge cans? I understand that's it's more economical, but it's also really wasteful. And probably leaves a big carbon footprint. Why hasn't somebody come up with the idea of selling mini-portions? Or at least quart-size containers?
But no. If you listen to the ads, you're encouraged every damn time to open up a brand-new huge can of whup-ass. Like you, the back of my fridge is stuffed with jars of the leftover stuff. It's not like it ever goes bad, right?
Shared for the art ref. Doubtful thesis - ignores modern era influences like TV, Audrey Hepburn, Playboy, rise of health awareness... After Cass Elliott, how many singers were overweight, I e. "Rubenesque"?
Five prisoners sought by the U.S. in a swap with Iran flew out of Tehran on Monday, officials said, part of a deal that saw nearly $6 billion in Iranian assets unfrozen. https://t.co/kk5JA4OwYZ
Breaking News: In an explosive allegation, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada accused the Indian government of involvement in a Sikh leader’s murder on Canadian soil. https://t.co/Be9nonmmyf
BREAKING: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will resume abortion care services on Monday, September 18th at the Water Street Health Center in Milwaukee, and the Madison East Health Center. pic.twitter.com/rNT1fx4THY
The end of Apartheid in South Africa brought a surge of hope for a brighter future. But the ANC, the party that liberated the Black majority from oppression, has transformed the country into a swamp of corruption, mismanagement and despair. Some are trying to turn things around.
The 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the Biden White House, top government health officials and the FBI likely violated the First Amendment by improperly influencing tech companies’ decisions to remove or suppress posts on covid-19.https://t.co/Y9dUQy01B1
"Health-insurance costs are rising at their steepest rates in years."
Obama and Biden failing to address the problem of health-care costs is a big missed electoral opportunity for the Democrats. https://t.co/5cW7qt8eoj via @WSJ
The trial opened for two of the main organizers of the so-called “Freedom Convoy” demonstrations that paralyzed Canada’s capital, snarled trade at critical U.S.-Canada border crossings and spurred copycats from New Zealand to the Washington Beltway. https://t.co/6OAuUbNzIc