Is it just me, or is there something delicious about Canwest Global, the good people behind the National Post, a newspaper with a real "the free market is good and will solve all our problems" editorial bent, being forced into bankruptcy by...the free market ( Read more... )

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

Looks like they're talking about denominating oil in something other than US dollars.

If ya got any money in US$-denominated assets, it's time to get rid of them.

At least it will in our house, 'cause I just paid off Lesley's student loans. (Well, me and my mom's life insurance ( Read more... )

Orwell vs. Huxley - amusing ourselves to death.

Hey everybody, or at least anybody still reading this, I'm back ( Read more... )

If you read a lot of 'doom and gloom' blogs like I do, (start with Garth Turner's greaterfool.ca for openers) predicting the end of the financial world as we know it, the sky falling, etc., you can't help but eventually encounter one species of internet wacko, the gold bug ( Read more... )

Yesterday, the plan was, Lesley was going to get me a google phone/HTC dream for my birthday ( Read more... )

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For those who are less of a news-junkie than I am, this particular one is mocking an incident in april where Harper picked the wrong time for a bathroom break and missed an official photo.There's a little bit of astroturfing being done by the both the Liberal and Conservative party of Canada ( Read more... )

"Professional medium" Patricia Putt recently took the James Randi Educational Foundation one-million-dollar challengeFor those who don't know, or who don't like to click on the wiki above, James Randi, stage magician and all around foe to the frauds or fools who claim they have "paranormal powers", has a foundation set up that offers a 1-million- ( Read more... )

"No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent."
-Charles De Gaulle.

Ah, yes, once again everybody's freaking out because North Korea tested a nuclear device.I say, "well, duh." What did people expect? The non-proliferation treaty says "OK, you guys without nukes, stay that way," but the other part of that deal is ( Read more... )