Hot Shots . . . 27 Aug 2013 | 04:03 am

— Just like Peter — iPOLITICS has a post by Michael Harris, “MacKay’s credibility gap: pot, meet kettle” that is a delight. A cheerful read, also with a possible complication for Petey, thanks to a p...

Maher musings . . . 26 Aug 2013 | 02:38 am

Reality is relative . . . 25 Aug 2013 | 10:11 pm

The path of progress . . . 25 Aug 2013 | 08:11 pm

HOW DO YOU GET TO CARNEGIE HALL? Like the old joke goes, practice! Malcolm Gladwell, who brought the term “Outlier” to the public consciousness, has a fascinating article in the New Yorker, “Complexit...

A glowing future . . . 24 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am

THE GENIE IS OUT OF THE BOTTLE with DNA, and Martin Lukacs, who posts on the TRUE NORTH blog created by The Guardian, is rightly concerned, with a post, “Kickstarter must not fund biohackers' glow-in-...

Lies with a tee-emm . . . 19 Aug 2013 | 06:55 am

REALLY. From Michele Bachmann's Facebook page “Christians For Michele Bachmann”, an oeuvre apparently paid for by Christians for Michele Bachmann™. Love the tee-emm. The FB slogan is “Changing lives, ...

If you haven't seen it . . . 18 Aug 2013 | 10:03 pm

GO GET A COPY of “Iron Sky”. It's about a Nazi Flying Saucer invasion from the dark side of the Moon. At least, that's what the trailers show.Set in 2018, it is actually a sizzling satire on the GOP a...

Boldly go . . . 18 Aug 2013 | 02:53 am

Paper bag time . . . 15 Aug 2013 | 03:45 am

MAYOR FORD BECOMES a world-wide joke. Here's the latest on YouTube, titled “Rob Ford's drunk Greek life, and the Toronto mayor's trip to jail”. done by an outfit called Taiwan Animation. The people wh...

Old Fort Mac . . . 13 Aug 2013 | 05:51 am

AS SEEN BY Corin Raymond, the Stevie Paradise, where any job is a good job — just ask the hookers. Bertolt's Blues: In the dark timesWill there also be singing?Yes, there will also be singingAbout th...