Earlier this week, I gather it was Yom Ha'atzmaut. You'll notice that the Wikipedia article there implies that the alternate term for this would be "Israeli Independence Day", commemorating "the declaration of independence of Israel in 1948 ( Read more... )

So it seems that both the Canadian Islamic Congress and Canadian Jewish Congress are now accusing the CBC, and more specifically its Middle-Eastern television correspondent of bias. One says he's anti-Islamic, the other says he's anti-Jewish. I haven't watched enough of Peter Mansbridge's newscasts lately to know where the truth lies, but those ( Read more... )

I'm really digging his most recent commentaries in the Globe. This week, he sorta juxtaposes the coming war with the space shuttle disaster. His writing just seems alternately elegant and, at the right moments, snippy.

He writes about David Frum, former GWB speechwriter, who wrote in the Post this week, that there's one main argument for war: "Why ( Read more... )

I'm not a big quiz guy, but a friend's post reminded me of this thing. It seems pretty accurate, but then, there are lots of tests like it that are. Anyway, I'm a crazy, crazy left-wing radical, apparently. I scored...
Economic Left/Right: -7.88
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -8.51

How about you folks?

Yeah, that's me. I'm off work today, with a sore throat, fever and blocked-up nose ( Read more... )