It just doesn’t stop, does it

The economic bail out seems to have had NO effect on some of the architects of the current fiscal disaster. AIG was bailed out last week. Guess what they did days after the bailout? Went on a huge retreat complete with lavish rooms, lots of spending. Financial Products Manager Joseph Cassano, who was one of [...]

How many city workers does it take to drill a hole?

First you have to soften up the neighbourhood with 2 weeks worth of dumptrucks and bobcats roaring around the land starting at 6:30 am until sometime around 3pm. Make sure you include Saturdays so patience is really tested. Then wait until 2:30am. You have to light up the area with enough klieg lights to make [...]

Violence on the Hustings

Lest any of us get too complacent or arrogant about our democracy here in Canada, listen to this cautionary tale. Just north of where I live, in Toronto there has been an outbreak of violent vandalism of the likes I don’t think we have ever seen. Specific political party supporters are being targeted by someone [...]

God I love this woman!

The BBC’s News Quiz show runs the Hallelujah chorus when they start to talk about Sarah Palin – that says it all, doesn’t it. This woman is a gift from the humour gods, isn’t she? Guess what? She’s been at it again. Evidently either Mexico or Canada has moved location. Well, one of us had [...]

Oh yea, I’m biased

If I wasn’t biased about Sarah Palin after the debate last week (which I was), I sure am now. Get a load of this wiff of the McCarthyism that she spouted off on Saturday: Our opponent … is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he’s palling around with [...]

Oh it’s a good time to be a political junkie

Yes indeed my friends – I am a political junkie. Although I am a political atheist, I do enjoy the sport of weasel baiting, also known as North American politics. Those of you not in North America may be aware of the pending US election. What you may not know is that here, in little [...]

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