Another nine miles

Rachel Marsden is back in the news again–National Post: Conservative pundit’s latest controversy. Another bad break-up. How bad? Involving the RCMP and national secrets and naked pictures and… what else? Oh, yeah, a pile of personal emails released to the public on her website. In 2005, I wrote a story about Ms. Marsden after she […]

The way forward

In considering the Alberta Human Rights panel’s [PDF] Lund/Boissoin decision, it just dawned on me that I’ve been looking at this thing the wrong way. I’ve been thinking of it as an individual rights thing, not a government-to-government power struggle. That decision’s revelation, written by panel chair Lori Andreachuk, is right near the end in […]

Your love, my right

When human rights compete, then they can’t by definition be universal
It’s International Human Rights Day, the 59th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations. I suppose I should spend the day in sorrowful contemplation of all of the wickedness in the world, but instead I find myself singing:
Oh baby, your […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Naked we go

Today being Halloween, I thought I would post something scary, which is why you find the frightening picture on the site beside these words. The image is of a nude woman, twenty-something or older, a mother-type, cellulite on her legs and buttocks, glasses on and her hair pinned back primly to contrast with her nakedness, […]

Rally ’round the UN

Pretty good round-up of a pro-UN membership rally in southern Taiwan from the blog, The View From Taiwan, with some explanation of the internal politics of that country.
Perhaps some of you–those who keep a closer eye on domestic politics, for instance–are thinking this is just a tempest in teapot, faraway places, nothing to do with […]

Diplomacy

I recently took a trip to Taiwan sponsored by the Taiwanese Government Information Office in the company of some 11 other journalists from around the world. Larry Luxner, news editor of the Washington Diplomat, was the U.S. contingent. Larry also runs his own photo service and has just posted some pictures from that trip online. […]