Lately this WikiLeaks debacle has really boiled over. I can’t turn around without hearing about a cable, even my mother asked me this weekend what my thoughts were on Julian Assange. Essentially I disagree with what he’s doing. Without examining the content of these so-called ‘cables’, and its implications...
Every now and then in life I come across stuff that really blows my mind. I mean really floors me, causes me to double take, even exclaim out loud. I’m not just talking about the busker you come across that can swallow a sword or the seemingly normal man...
I’d like to take a moment to talk intercollegiate sports. If you were like me this past weekend, you may have caught up on some yard-work, perhaps seen some friends, or got an early start on Christmas shopping, but for 46 teams comprising 757 athletes it was the Quiddich...
I was browsing the current issue of Time magazine, and there are some new-old photos from JFK’s 1960 campaign against Nixon that caught my eye. This particular one doesn’t include Kennedy and is my favourite. Reporters are getting shots of Kennedy in his motorcade. I think its a perfect...
Rob Ford took it away tonight with 47.1% of the votes. Smitherman came away with 35.6% and Pantalone 11.7%. In the end Rob Ford came away with nearly 100,000 more votes than Smitherman, cementing the lead that Ford had developed over the past few months in a final tally...
Just a few miles south-east of Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico, in the states’ southern desert it’s a clear sunny afternoon and 17°. Perfect conditions for a spaceship to do a flyover for the dedication of Spaceport America. While this may sound like science fiction, or news that George...
There is now only a week left in the campaign for Toronto’s new Mayor, and as of today it looks like there are 3 men standing in a 2 man race. Four men were left as the front-running vote collectors two weeks ago, but Rocco Rossi’s announcement last week...
Today I stumbled across this whilst doing some very unrelated work. It’s a short film called Wooly Mammoth by Rick Palidwor, a film instructor at Hart House, at the University of Toronto. Rick has made several short-films including the somewhat well known Sleep Always. It’s only 2½ minutes long...
So there’s an upcoming mayoral election in Toronto and this month marks the home stretch in what at times has seemed like a marathon campaign — the first TV debate was in May. Here’s my plus/minus scoring for who’s going to get my vote for Toronto’s 64th mayor. Of...
Earlier this summer Stephen Colbert took up a challenge from the farm workers ‘Take Our Jobs Please’ campaign to take a migrant worker’s job. He spent a day picking and packing corn in New York. (Part 1-SE22, Part 2-SE23) This past Friday morning Colbert testified to congress before the...
