Aug. 27 -- Bloggers have been busy as hell today. Have I mentioned how hot it is?

Paul has I want McCallum's head stuffed and mounted on my wall, Thank God for the RCMP which is a necessary read for this followup Oh f*ck off in which Paul responds to demands from Toronto's Muslim community for an apology and an immediate release of the 19 illegal immigrants arrested on suspicions of terrorism (or should that be activism?)

A blogger who I've just started reading is Ith who adds Harrison Ford to the Celebrity Nimnull list.

Smug Canadian looks at the plea to movie-makers from attorney generals of 22 US States that they reduce depictions of smokers, well, smoking in movies States request honest depictions of Democrats in movies (if only).

Colby Cosh links to his new column in the National Post which takes a look at the ideas of Hernando de Soto and foreign aid. I'm emailing it to the US State Dept.

French Libertarian is threatening to go to jail before he'll eat brussel sprouts.

Jay Currie reports the latest move the BBC has taken. I think it's called damage control, although others might call it locking the barn door way too late.

News Junkie Canada has received and posted a letter from the Irish Council for Civil Liberties about Irish hate speech laws. She has also posted the text of the section of the Criminal Code in Canada which pertains to hate speech. Someday someone will explain to me why those laws don't apply to the US President and Americans but I'm content to think of it as hypocrisy for now.

David Janes explains why he's in a blogging funk. His reasons are pretty good.

Right On! has a downright revolutionary idea about how to solve the child care crisis. (Translation: revolutionary these days means common sense.)

Rugged Intellectual is also feeling the depression also known as reading the news but found some relief by looking at songs that go unnghh. There are more than you might think.

The Canadian takes on a rather crude depiction of Christians by Warren Kinsella and also attacks the recent poll from the LA Times which skewed its results in order to show Bustamente is ahead of Arnold in the polls. Is he saying the liberal press lies? Oh no . . .

The Dissident Frogman is looking ever more closely at the actual state of health care in France with another horror story. The demise of the "greatest health care system in the world" must be read, especially as we have to wonder if that's where Canada is also heading.

If you haven't read David Warren's latest essay One-a-day then do it now.

North Korea: we're all thinking about it but not sure what to think. Mike Campbell looks at NK's acceptance of multi-lateral talks and their slow realization that China will not bail them out and connects some dots between resolving the stalemate with North Korea and Iran's nuclear ambitions. Check out the following entry also, Up >From Slavery, which is about Booker T. Washington's autobiography, and Mike factors in some Canadian history about the Antigonish Movement which, from what I could tell, had a similar "pull ourselves up by our bootstraps" approach to ending poverty.

Naturally The Meatriarchy would be at the forefront of the meat recall story and even gives credit to the Toronto Star who finally got to the bottom of this story.

Before I close down I'm heading over to Jay Solo's blog to follow the link to vote in Balloon Juice's blogger awards. You might want to do it also.

Goodnight.

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Aug. 16 -- The funniest thing online is the opening page to blogger.com, which proclaims "and in the darkness blog them" as the preamble to their latest updates. It was pre-black-out, but still cracks me up.

ScrappleFace gives some acid tea and sympathy to those of us hardest hit by the blackout:

With no electricity, many "bloggers" were forced to post their latest musings to the Internet by candlelight. Some resorted to using old-fashioned kerosene-fueled personal computers. Others wrote their thoughts out longhand on paper then ran through the streets reading them aloud to the passing crowds of stranded commuters.

Oh yeah.

Canadians must take a moment to be thankful for small mercies: Frank J. has called off vengeance on Canada in retaliation for causing the black-out (scroll to bottom of comments.) It may have been premature, though: wait until Frank J. find out more about MP Herb Dhaliwal, co-chair of the newly established investigatory committee. Even though there wasn't any way around it (he's federal Minister of Natural Resources) he's bound to be more interested in the Blame Game than Finding Solutions but remember: it's in his nature. He's a Liberal Party one-liner, and he's a moron.

Dollars to donuts Herb will blame the USA for the black-out and pinpoint the cause on our refusal to ratify the Kyoto Accord. Any takers?

OK, I'm off to the stores to get the essentials while we still have power. Cold cuts and anything bar-b-queable will be the first things on my list.

See you later, Toronto Hydro permitting.

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