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Just away from WordPress, otherwise it’s the exact same blog, with the same foul language, sports metaphors and (hopefully, shortly after a couple of happy hockey posts this week) the same political and journalistic intrigue.
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Please adjust your browsing, blogrolls and bookmarks accordingly. And for those getting bored with all the hockey, one way or another, [...]

Don’t even hope for a newspaper bailout

There are plenty of arguments one could make both for and against government offering a bailout to newspapers.
And the arguments, at least in America, would probably fall on deaf ears, as the White House seems to have already made up its mind:
With the Boston Globe just the latest big-city newspaper teetering on the edge of [...]

You can’t save something by chopping it into pieces

Soon we will return to juvenile rants about why the Detroit Red Wings are God’s gift to hockey. And whooo boy, they sure look the part these days.
It is, after all, springtime, and this is what we do every Spring.
But first, I read something today that helped clarify an idea I’d been wrestling with — [...]

Barack Obama is finished

You know what? If Barack Obama honestly believes this, then he’s finished. Done. Cooked. Hopeless. Expired.
And in some of his strongest language yet, Obama suggested that, in its new ad, the McCain-Palin ticket was simply trying to “make stuff up.”
“You can’t just recreate yourself,” said the Democratic nominee. “You can’t just reinvent yourself. The American [...]

Political Quotables

I’m not going to be snarky, angry, disgusted, repulsed, horrified, sarcastic, wryly amused or even righteously indignant about the American election today.
It’s more effective (and so much fun!) to simply dig through massive amounts of news stories, blogs and political analysis in order to find a bunch of quotes that have gone public in the [...]

OMG! Babymama drama!

I love it.
Now that I’ve taken a few deep breaths … now that I am no longer so quick to become scornful and condescending over how ridiculously superficial American politics can be when the Fate Of The Whole Wide World is hanging in the balance … now that I’ve realized that Canadians won’t ever allow [...]

Why Thinking People Hate the Bush Administration: Part Eleventy-Billion

You know a smart administration is making the decisions when they “take scientists out of decision making on species status.”
And it’s just awesome that doing so “doesn’t require the approval of congress.”
In totally unexpected reaction to this move, “developers welcomed the plan, while environmentalists derided it.”
No! Really?
Environmentalists derided a plan that would put the decision-making [...]

Signs of the Endtimes: Vol. 1

Look, I need to do something to justify my creeping sense of impending doom, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to walk around telling everyone the sky is falling like Chicken Little with a goatee and glasses.
So to help relieve the gloom, I figured … fuck it, if the ship really is going down, [...]