more signs of the coming apocalypse

The Sandwich of Knowledge… Kinda like the obelisk in 2001.
One might ask, ‘What are some of the signs of the coming apocalypse?’
…An economic meltdown unlike nothing we’ve ever seen before?
A 10 storey asteroid coming within a smidgen of hitting us as on Monday Mar. 2/09?
All of these are plausible contenders…
But the one that I think really [...]

how does an SNL skit get pulled by NBC and youtube?

Satire is supposed to be messy. It’s supposed to be biting and even nasty at times.
It can be scattershot and long-winded (as in this SNL skit). It can also provide a wonky dose of reality and insight into our smug, media massaged world of instant analysis and expert telepundits.  By doing so, it can occasionally reveal some kernel of [...]

beijing says: whichever way wind blows, we can shoot it — everything fine!

As Ricardo Montalbán on Fantasy Island used to say: “Smiles everyone, — smiles!”
Yes, it appears that Corinthian leather isn’t all that’s rich smelling these days..        And how apropos it is that ‘The Games®’ have already begun to be played in Beijing. These are the games that involve not just putting on a razzles dazzle show of ’smoke’ (–and we do emphasize the smoke part) [...]

enjoy the yellowcake canada — sorry I can’t be there — love, saddam

                         Doesn’t that frost your cupcakes.
It’s yellow, not so mellow, radioactive as hell and yummy in Cameco’s energy tummy.
Cameco is Canada’s lil’ Saskatchewan based uranium company that could and did secretly ink a deal bringing 550 metric tonnes of Saddam’s yellowcake from Iraq to Canada, at the US government’s behest and with the Canadian government’s blessing.
Using teams of ‘experts’ that included Iraqi scientists and engineers [...]

the 5-ring circus is coming to town

Moving Moments in Olympic History!
 
     Beijing.  Be There!   …Or else.
In our continuing coverage of the most amazing events in our humble human history,
we present our continuing series of ‘Moving Moments in Olympic History!’
 
As the Olympics get closer you’ll be able cut the tension (and the actual air) with a knife.  …Others may choose automatic weapons.
 
Beijing.   Be There!  …Or [...]

breakfast of champlain’s brings curd response from lactose intolerant

Party invite depicting Champlain as an explorer with a penchant for poutine offends the thin-skimmed.
Mon Dieu! You’d think we’d sent an armada of gravy boats off to declare war!
An ill-advised party invite from the Canadian embassy in Washington D.C. promoting its 2008 Canada Day party has threatened Anglo-French realtions and gotten some folks sharply ‘cheesed-off’.
The invitation, depicting Quebec City’s founding father toting a big, honking [...]

this just in: — u.s. gov’t no longer thinks 90 yr old nobel peace prize winner is a terrorist

15 years after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, the world’s greatest statesman is removed from the U.S. terrorism watch list by  the world’s greatest   *-*-*-*-*-*-*.
File this one under: ‘keeping up with the Bin Laden’s and the Mandela’s…
In a radical ‘about-face’, and, proving once again how the US government has its big fat finger on the pulse of the [...]

next big battles: — economies, hearts, espresso macchiato addiction… — have no fear, help is in sight

You know world economies are tanking when Starbucks is set to close 600
company stores. Now also comes news that it will take billions and billions of dollars to ‘rehabilitate’ the woefully inadequate petroleum facilities and general infrastructure of Iraq…
“Ya mean we bombed it all to sh*t  and we can’t just go in there and start pumping!?  …WTF’s up with that!? [...]

happy canada day one and all!

The cookie may be crumbling but as long as the price of 20 Timbits and a large regular hold steady — we should be okay.

Happy 141st Canada Day to one and All far and near and may the True North stay forever Strong and Free!  —- your patriotic blogger — Steve

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 [...]