Year: 2007

Meet Banksy. Cheeky and provocative, Banksy leaves his mark wherever he goes, even at record shops.

Man calls Feds inquiring on the whereabouts of his lost cocaine. What I don’t understand about US law enforcement is how the Feds had pretty much figured out he was a drug runner in the first place but had let him go, while medical marijuana patients get busted by SWAT teams every week.

A review of Vosges Haut Chocolat’s Bacon Bar. Yes, you read this correctly, a chocolate bar. With bacon. No, this isn’t a Simpsons joke. And it’s actually good, according to the reviewer. Ah, bacon, is there anything you can’t do?..

And you won’t believe what it is. See the comment after the picture for details.

I’ve not been a fan of BMW since Chris Bangle redesigned the formerly-understated German vehicles to the ugly, bloated, over-angled excesses that we see in them today. Fortunately it would seem that as time goes the cars are less and less Bangled (as it were) and look more and more like they actually have some BMW heritage in them, with the ultimate example being the new 1-series unveiled in Frankfurt. Could it be that BMWs of the future will look more and more like, well, BMW’s? Only time will tell.

If you’ve been going around Montreal since about mid-August, you’ve no doubt noticed enormous numbers of wasps. The normally woodland-dwelling insect seems to have found itself a new home in the city.

Continue reading 2007: Year of the Wasp

Meet Michael Ledeen, “Iran Expert” and “Freedom Scholar” at the American Enterprise Institute. I’m not an expert on Iran myself, but wouldn’t you expect someone who claims to be such an expert to speak Farsi, and perhaps to have actually been in Iran at some point in his life? That’s too much to ask of the extreme-right-wing AEI, apparently, who have decided to put this raving insane fucking lunatic in charge of the dossier. After all the Institute’s “wisdom” is what got the US in Iraq in the first place…

The REAL Rudy. Rudy Giuliani has been lying his head off about his own record and about the decisions that ended up compounding the effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, causing countless needless deaths as a result of his relentless pursuit of self-publicity. Don’t believe his lies…

A colossal ripoff — mobile data in Canada. I used to think the telcos were screwing themselves by pricing themselves at such unaffordable rates, but they’re not. They rely on the customer having no alternatives, but credit enough left on the credit card. The similarity in the cost of the service across providers HAS to make you wonder about the issue of collusion and price-fixing, which would be easy strategies to pull off in a market where only 3 providers exist.