Mar

22

Alan’s Cat was put to sleep…

March 22, 2007 | 1 Comment

Which occasions one of the more amusing reflections on catery I’ve read in a long time,
Frobes blossomed as an entirely idle mammal. genX@40
Alan gets the strange relationship between cat “owners” and cats, with all of its bittersweet ambiguity, exactly right.

Mar

22

There is literally nothing left…

March 22, 2007 | 1 Comment

The Conservatives are now in government, where they have the privilege of outspending the Liberals. They have won power, at the price of conservatism. They have bested the Liberals, but defeated themselves.
There is literally nothing left. Privatization, tax cuts, tax reform, EI reform, CPP reform, democratic reform: all gone, barely even remembered. Now its subsidies […]

Mar

21

Bye, Bye CBC2

March 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Mike’s Radio World Classical, Jazz, Dance/Techno
And, yo, CBC guys…you know that youth market you are chasing at night? Well they already are listening to streaming audio…us old guys, until now, not so much. But, hey, an all Baroque station out of the Netherlands vs Laurie Brown playing what she found on her iPod? You make […]

Mar

20

A Nominal Anglican Responds

March 20, 2007 | 10 Comments

The Venerable Edward Michael George posts a long quotation from Soren Kierkegaard on the need to work for one’s bread. You can read it here.
The short form was elucidated by Bob Dylan:

Well, God said to Abraham “Kill me a son”
Abe said “Man, you must be putting me on”
God said “No”
Abe said “Wha?t”
God said “You do […]

Mar

20

A Fine Liberal Budget

March 20, 2007 | 4 Comments

Money for Quebec…check
Refunding SOW…check
Green Social Engineering…check
Another couple of hundred for the kids…check
Bump the capital gains exemption (but only for small business, not investors)….check
Over at SDA the Conservative Street is seething.
Andrew has come to the horrible realization that:
Today’s budget (see: official site) is an embarrassment for those who consider themselves fiscal conservatives (especially those who […]

Mar

17

Bye CBC 2

March 17, 2007 | 1 Comment

Ever after the “elusive youth market” the brain dead folks at the CBC are killing the vast majority of the shows on CBC2. I am listening to Andy Sheppard as he bids farewell from Afterhours. Two hours of jazz from 10-12 midnight. Much too boring for the “elusive youth audience.”
It is rather pointless to note […]

Mar

17

KMG back on the air

March 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment

At about 11:00 AM pretty much every morning my friend Kevin Grace phones me. We talk of the latest lunacy of the Tory party or the most recent idiocy propagated in the Children’s Crusade Against Global Warming. Lately we have been talking about computers. Specifically Kevin’s computer. If you would like another reason not to […]

Mar

16

Cindy Grauer: Something to hide

March 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I knew Cindy Grauer, the aspiring Liberal candidate in Vancouver Quadra, years ago when we worked on assorted Liberal campaigns together. I am delighted she is running but a bit surprised at her current campaign website’s bare mention of what to date is surely the pinnacle of her career.
Ms. Grauer was a CRTC Commissioner.
Now […]

Mar

15

Wow, that Shark is flying now

March 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment

“I don’t want to pick on Al Gore,” Don J. Easterbrook, an emeritus professor of geology at Western Washington University, told hundreds of experts at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. “But there are a lot of inaccuracies in the statements we are seeing, and we have to temper that with real […]

Mar

10

The damn gopher was obnoxious enough…

March 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Which part of “timeless” is this dolt missing:
“We got raised eyebrows even in-house at first, but the feeling was these timeless characters really needed a breath of fresh air that only the introduction of someone new could provide,” says Nancy Kanter of the Disney Channel.” usa today via lileks
Disney makes more from Pooh than any […]

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