Stephen Harper provided a lot of things with his new Cabinet yesterday, but leadership wasn’t one of them. I like the extra-cynical touch evident in two things: first, picking an unelected — and therefore unquestionable in the House of Commons — Montrealer as Public Works minister, and topping it all with naming a unilingual anglophone as Canadian Heritage minister. I guess there really are more ministerial posts than French-speaking conservatives.
To live and die in the USA.
The US seems headed down the slippery slope to a police state — with a twist. It’s not about the executive branch seizing power arbitrarily — although there’s been plenty of that recently — rather it’s about the increasing tendency for police departments all over the US to use SWAT teams for everything, including the arrest of people not even suspected of violent crimes, and the inevitable resulting deaths by accidents and overreactions. Well worth a read.
Naughty, naughty nature!
Hot ebay item of the week: the anatomical carrot. You have to admit, it is exceptionally detailed!
The investor in a chain of blackberry addiction recovery centers is said to have been disappointed by the ruling.
RIM wins key patent battle. Gentlemen, start your CrackBlackberries… again.
Apparently he had his fingers crossed behind his back the whole time.
There’s a lot less to Bush’s end-of-Middle-East-oil-dependence plan than Monday’s speech would have you believe. It took less than a day for the Administration to back off that commitment… I’m sure they’re planning to stick by the loony animal-human hybrid nonsense though.
People should decide their own fate, except when we disagree with them, in which case they need to be liberated.
Bush lobbying hard to isolate Palestine’s new government. I guess this “drive to bring democracy to the Middle East” has reached its limit when the US finds that people are voting for people who don’t fit the American agenda.
Roses are red, violets are blue, you’re gonna die, sucks to be you.
The Worst 100 Ways to Deliver Bad News. …give or take 20, but who’s counting?
Your search – “don’t be evil” – did not match any policy.
Google goes from ‘do no evil’ to ‘see no evil’. Money is evidently stronger than memory. Is the Chinese market really worth one’s soul?
Say it with roses instead.
10 reasons you should never accept a diamond. Nothing says love like slave labour!
Full of tentacle-y goodness!
Deep End Dining’s review of… the live octopus tentacles at an LA restaurant. Apparently you can in fact eat something that’s alive. It must be a Los Angeles thing…