This post from Instapundit got my dander up a bit. This kind of carping is what loses sympathy and maybe support. Canada took in your planes on September 11th. Canada provided and provides NORAD support. Canada’s people are in those AWAC’s over your country and over seas. And Canada’s military gave and gives what [...]

This guy may not win any popularity contests, but he has some things to say about the popular search engine.

Iqnorance is Bliss
Researchers say being incompetent isn’t necessarily a bad thing because inept individuals don’t know they are, er, inept.

“Incompetent individuals were less able to recognize competence in others,” the researchers concluded.
In a final experiment, [...]

A smack down at Sand in the Gears. A fisking at Dr. Byrons. A deep Junk Yard growl.
And Colby Cash weighs in with on projecting our imaginations 250 years into the future. Haven’t got the heart to chide him on this, it reads like his blood sugar was down, the day went badly, and Nigel [...]

It didn’t take Colby Cosh long to respond to my two picks for top Canadians.

I’m far from done here Cosh. I intend to enlist all my Canadian blogging friends (let’s see: that’s one person) and my myriad of weekend readers (let’s see: that’s maybe five more). And of course my international blogging buddies are [...]

I have had my blogging wrist slapped by Colby Cosh, and rightly so. I indiscriminately threw out a war death figure that was very wrong, which only goes to prove his point.

I am put in the position of somehow diminishing the “courage, duty, and sacrifice” of Canadians in a century’s wars if I point out [...]

A “Swedish citizen of Tunisian orgin travelling to an Islamic conference in England” was arrested after a gun was found in his carry on luggage at the Stockholm airport.

Baseball
I actually like the way the CBC put this. “Hundreds of millionairies have settled their differences…. Yep. Good plan, if they want to stay millionaires and [...]

Memo To: Colby Cosh

I propose John McCrae and Lucy Maud Montgomery. Do I have to justify my picks? And how many Canadians make this list? Do we chose from Confederation on? You are asking for Canadians who’s names will be part of world civilization 250 years from now, correct?

Regards, Bene Diction
So far, Glenn Gould, [...]

I missed Daniel Silliman’s post yesterday on The Job of a Reporter. Hmmm. Maybe Barrabas and I should put our two cents in.