Headline of the Year

Found it on Drudge this morning and have been chuckling to myself for about an hour.
Edmonton Sun: Hockey brawl between 8-year-olds stuns police
Ummm, maybe it’s time to get some different police, not so easily “stunned.”
“These are eight-year-olds,” said Staff Sgt. Neal Young of Guelph Police. “How ridiculous is that?”
I don’t know. How ridiculous is a […]

Christmas gift ideas

As we head into the Christmas shopping season, I thought it would be reasonable for me to make a couple of gift suggestions. This is for the coffee lover in your life; I mean the real coffee lover, not the Starbucks go-er who takes delight in that chain’s candy in a paper cup or mugs […]

At the lip of the volcano

I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more than I’ll never know

–What a Wonderful World

How could anyone miss a chance to remark on these kooks, at the vanguard in the cult of the apocalypse? Daily Mail: Meet the women who won’t have babies–because they’re not eco friendly. Next step? Virgin […]

Why I pay for cable

I’ve wanted to rhapsodize about Turner Classic Movies for a while now. It’s the only reason I continue to pay for cable (okay, maybe NFL football as well). As I type, TCM is playing The Lineup with Eli Wallach, 1958, a selection by this evening’s celebrity guest programmer, James Ellroy, which I’ve never seen before. […]

Hoys and toys

Let’s take a moment to salute Clare Hoy for his column in Caledon Citizen: Time to think about Olympic boycott? On the same theme, I’ll pair it with Doug Bandow in The American Spectator: China’s Biggest Olympics Test. Slotted beside those, in the “Oh c’mon, can this possibly get worse?” department, we have today’s Globe […]

Confidence

I went looking for a video of the opening of the Kenneth Clark series, Civilisation, where the host speaks about society and confidence. Though I didn’t find it, I discovered that on Oct. 22 someone had posted Clark’s statement from the end of the series which refers to the remarks on confidence at the beginning;
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Internet revived the radio star

Here’s a site worth bookmarking if you enjoy listening to old radio programs, the OTR Network Library, with over 12,000 shows readily available in streaming .ram files. Besides all the drama and comedy–neatly arranged alphabetically on the main page and then chronologically on the back pages–there are vintage news and sports broadcasts; sections I would […]

A Dick’s Life, the Browning Version

Two stupid statements, diversity directorate, jury going out of their way to absolve her of any responsibility. . . this was starting to look like politically correct nonsense, and official nonsense is intriguing. I started looking up all the main players in this awful event and I eventually made my way to the Wikipedia entry on Cressida Dick.