Three or four weeks ago, while condemning the planned burning of the Qur’an in Florida to protest the so-called Ground Zero Mosque, Mississippi governor Henry Barbour said something a little troubling. When asked his opinion on the reason why so many Americans incorrectly think that Obama is a Muslim, Barbour said “I don’t know why […]

A New Jersey restaurateur named Joe Cerniglia committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge on Friday. Which is a shame in itself, of course, but that’s not why it’s been making headlines this week. Cerniglia was featured in an episode of Kitchen Nightmares, which is one of a number of reality shows featuring […]

Here’s a friendly warning to all of my fellow bloggers out there. If the two most frequent topics on your blog within a given month are the girlfriend that you’re about to marry and a political campaign that may depend on whether or not an opposition leader chooses to whip his party’s vote, then don’t […]

Remember my clever plan to use children’s cereals to trick myself into a daily habit of eating breakfast? Well, it isn’t going as well as I’d hoped. If I had to guess why, I’d say it’s probably because it turns out that Cap’n Crunch is actually a pretty disgusting cereal. I mean, I’m still going […]

If you had any trouble visiting this site today, then please accept my apologies. We had a bit of a bandwidth issue, in that we ran out of it, but I’ve moved some things around, and now we’re good to go. I’ll try not to let it happen again.

I don’t eat breakfast as often as I should, and I’m trying to correct that. I work long days, and I spent a lot of energy, so you’d think I wouldn’t want to skimp on fueling up. But I also like to sleep late, and to be honest, I’ve never really taken enough joy in […]

Hey, did you hear the news? Stephen Harper just hired a Toronto elitist as his new chief of staff. Nigel Wright, according to the Globe and Mail, will be “a right-hand man with little political or election campaign experience, but who has one of the finest business minds in the country… “Those who know both […]

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has become the latest member of the Harper cabinet to stress, yet again, that now is not the time for an election. In what the CBC cheekily called “a campaign-style address” to the Canadian Club of Ottawa yesterday, Flaherty argued that the triggering of an “unnecessary” fall election and the formation […]

A little while back, I posted an excerpt from the most recent book by Michael J. Fox, in which the actor and activist noted a key reason why the will and impact of young voters had largely been ignored by pollsters during the early days of the 2008 presidential election. “It wasn’t until late in […]

With a little under three weeks to go until our wedding, Kate and I are starting to feel the pressure. Not in any “cold feet” sense, I assure you; in fact, the two of us have been surprised at how unfazed we are by the idea of being married, and I suppose that’s a very […]