Apparently trying to channel some of that Howard Dean politico-blog mojo, now our Canadian Prime-Minister-in-Waiting (for about ten years now) has a blog, too. PM-to-be Paul Martin offers befuddled newbies a definition of the blog: No, it’s not a swamp creature. It’s a term used to describe an internet trend that has exploded over the […]

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Troop morale is high as our soldiers are committed to an indefinite length of stay in this now-hostile frozen wasteland! Sometimes when I feel I want to raise my voice against the American folly in Iraq, my zeal is infected with boredom. I get the urge to say that the war in Iraq is worsening […]

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“Sometimes I overstate for emphasis.”— Donald Rumsfeld, September 17, 2003 (Spotted by Jake over at Lying Media Bastards)

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A hippie family. The children are always left to run around naked. Anti-Hippie Action League

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About ten years ago I remember reading Neil Strauss’s awe-inspiring anthology Radiotext(e) with a palpable sense of longing… somewhere, beyond the reach of my radio antenna in Saskatoon there were unimaginably cool aural epics being transmitted into the ether. It seemed unimaginably remote and exotic to a culturally-deprived prairie boy. Winding my way up and […]

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