This weekend is "Doors Open" in Ottawa--that means that many old buildings are open and giving tours to the public, chimps like me and you.

I wanted to see various places, but realistically in this weather my mother and I were only going to make it to one of them, so we went for a tour of the old Union Train Station, currently a rarely-used ( Read more... )

Dear Mr. Bush:
In Latvia,
Please save your breath.

It's humiliating.

(With regards to a bottom-of-front-page articles in the Citizen today citing Canadian Supreme Court Justice Ian Binnie who gave a recent speech to the effect that we must revisit notions of "innocent until proven guilty" in these heady terroristic times--he even points to the decision of a British court which asked whether it was "better that this ( Read more... )

Someone should write a book on the reasons that people feel compelled to attack dissidents as if it was the most rebellious thing to do.

"OH GEEZ IT'S SO TRENDY TO HATE BUSH THESE DAYS. BOOORING..."Aside from maybe qualifying for a career as teacher, conservative politician, or editorial writer one day, what exactly are the perks of taking the ( Read more... )

So my dog went to the march today.. and picked a fight with some anti-war dogs. No foolin'.

I always had remarked that her ideology was rather eerily like that of GW Bush and his ilk.