Mother fights off polar bear to save children. Wow.

The new leader of the Nova Scotia Conservatives is a young whipper-snapper (34) named Rodney MacDonald who hails from Cape Breton. Under Hamm he was the minister of tourism. Before entering politics in 1999, he was a gym teacher and fiddler. Rumour has it that Hamm, upon his retirement at the next provincial election, may be offered a job with ( Read more... )

some days you just want to spend the day jumping up and down and screaming

This projected Conservative Cabinet written up by Rick Mercer is pretty scary and an all too real posibility....
Rick Mercer's Blog

To A Haggis ( Read more... )

So it's Monday night and I'm home alone having a cup of wine and watching the numbers come in. Being home alone on Election night is almost as bad than being home alone on V-Day, maybe worse *sob*

So the seasonal excitement lasted a little longer than I thought, but I'm now completely restored to full humbug status.

On a happier note, GWB is under fire for allegedly giving the NSA the go ahead to eavesdrop on Americans within the US border without warrents. Link. The case is going to court early in 2006.

The BBC has published some pictures a "Western businessman" has taken in North Korea. As any information, pictures and otherwise, of North Korea are pretty rare, I though I'd post the link.

Also, Governor Schwarzenegger has denied clemency to Stanley "Tookie" Williams. For anyone who hasn't hear about it... Tookie Williams was a founding member ( Read more... )

Yay! Done! Evil paper is submitted! Free for Christmas!! Yay!

I'm down to the wire on the last thing I have to do for class before Christmas break. This paper, which is due today by the way, is killing me. It's an intensely boring topic on the one hand. On the other, it's the last thing before Christmas and so I haven't been able to concentrate on it for more than five minutes at a time ( Read more... )