a possible demonstration sport at the beijing olympics™?

It was Rudyard Kipling who said East is East and West is West and never the twain
shall meet. I think Rudyard never visited the Hefei Gym and Dance School in Anhui province China to take in a pole dancing fitness class.  If he had, I think he might’ve seen that the twain does indeed, –at least in my ‘culturally [...]

where delusions and antelope play

 And seldom is heard a discouraging word in that place called Alberta.
That’s why the folks at Travel Alberta and Discover Alberta have their vacation knickers in a knot. And so it falls on the current ’Alberta Booster Boy’ and Premier,  Steady Eddy Stelmach to turn on his oily charm and show that the clean, green, vacation machine that is  ”Wild Rose [...]

to the victor go the spoiled ballots

  

Welcome democracy fans to ‘Election Night in Zimbabwe’!
 
This is our ongoing ’runoff election’ coverage, – so called because the opposition has had to ’run off’ for just a bit. — But don’t let that spoil your televisual pleasure…         It’s still a close one!
With just over 10% of the early returns in it looks like Robert Mugabe has captured about 50% of [...]

yes, but are you sure it won’t clash with the carpet and drapes?

‘How’s it look here?’  -‘White Glove Movers’ — When you’ve just gotta somehow get that 80 million dollar French impressionist masterpiece next to the Ficus benjamina.
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 What’cha think hun?  Some ’Le bassin aux nympheas‘ might spruce the place up a
bit. It’s either that or some new wallpaper.  Besides, the Coolidge ‘poker playing dogs’ market has gone well…  to [...]

eat the rich before they eat you

Eat the rich! They have more taste. The poor are full of gristle and have low nutritive value.
And, while we’re at it, let’s use the overinflated egos of overpaid CEO’s to generate some wind power. Perhaps use some of their bangled and bobbled trinkets to light our streets, - their liposuctioned leavings to lubricate the machinery for an uprising.  …I know it’s just so much hot air, but [...]

ganglia go banglia, or has google made us all drooling idiotz?

 Are we at a cognitive fork in the road? Are the Facebook addicted, Blackberry-
holstered, blog-obsessed, Twittering masses going to gray matter hell in a handcart? Have we lost that fine, time-honoured art of just talking to each other, – spending a lazy afternoon in a café daydreaming and ruminating on the human condition instead of wondering whether it had WiFi access?
Or are we living in a [...]

the gnashing of teeth, the gladding of hands

Both McCain and and Obama have slightly different approaches to wooing ‘the
undecided’ and the great unflossed masses.

 It’s not just about giving people hope and fighting inner-city decay…

 It’s about giving people whiter teeth and fighting tooth decay

Teeth are overrated. I’m offering free candy and free partial upper plates to anyone who will follow me into hell!

new study suggests prolonged exposure to cellphone studies causes stress and confusion

Disgraced former Nortel boss Frank Dunn indicates the distance you should be holding your cellphone from your head to avoid guava-sized tumours.
So I’m looking at my Sympatico.MSN.ca homepage this morning, — Sympatico is a
’strategic alliance’ (as they call it) between mega-super-communications superpower BCE (Bell Canada Enterpises) and mega-super-computer superpower MSN (The Microsoft Network), both huge players in the mobile information market, — and [...]

cutting back to 24 hours

      Will the Dépanneur Ultra, like this one in Montréal’s NDG region, be cutting back to 24 hours?
With Stéphane Dion’s carbon plan accidentally leaking into our ozone layer
yesterday (thanks for adding to all the hot air) and companies like Magna, Air Canada, GM and such, suddenly realizing that they’re ‘way big’ in a world of oil approaching $200 a barrel, it has lead to [...]

can you spare a squirt citizen?

 

“Atomic batteries to power! Turbines to speed!”
 
It’s the checklist Robin calls out to Batman as they fire up the Batmobile, but in a time when Gotham’s gas prices could make any superhero gag, would Batman have to prioritize the kind of crime he fights?  Would Batman and Robin even entertain the idea of getting a bus pass and risk being [...]