More strip clubs? Yea, that’s a winning campaign platform.
Tim Bousquet
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Red = medals?
er, if this is true, shouldn’t Canadian athletes, with, ya know, the red and white uniforms and the red and white flags following them everywhere, be, like, winning more medals? BEIJING (Reuters) – Red might be more than just a lucky color for Chinese athletes competing at the Olympics. A study has found choosing the […]
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Athlete without Compelling Personal Drama Expelled from Olympics
It was bound to happen: A member of the U.S. Olympic diving team was disqualified from competition today when it was learned that he did not have a sufficiently compelling human storyline to exploit on the NBC telecast of the worldwide sporting event. Tracy Klujian, the expelled diver, was not raised by a single mother, […]
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The olympic drinking contest
W even manages to screw up the simple art of being a spectator.
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W never disappoints
Reason #8,762 to be ashamed to be an American: …t’s difficult to imagine that the president’s trip to Beijing didn’t peak when he received an up-close and personal beach volleyball lesson at Chaoyang Park from defending gold medalists Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh. As if things weren’t hot enough for the president, who had just […]
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MSNBC: “We can’t hear you!”
Alan Abrahamson, who’s live-blogging form the actual Olympic stadium and not from Sue Carter Flinn’s couch, is complaining that the Chinese don’t behave like ugly Americans: The last team to enter, per Olympic protocol, the host nation: China. The roar from the crowd is loud but not deafening.
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Rodney MacDonald on cap and trade
Reportedly, yesterday Rodney dissed both a carbon tax and a cap and trade scheme. A straight carbon tax is a complicated issue, and reasonable people can disagree about it. But for now, I want to point at MacDonald’s comment about the cap-and-trade idea: I’m not convinced the cap and trade system is the best for […]
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meta Olympic blogging
CBC in its infinitesimally small wisdom is running their live web site’s live feed through a Mac-unfriendly Media Player thingamjig (probably not the technical term). Someone sent me a link to a British proxy server that through the miracle of the intertubes is somehow connected to a German TV network’s live feed, but all I’m […]
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A City in Transit
Gas prices are rising to the stratosphere. The globe is approaching a climate change tipping point. Unending congestion and a lack of parking have turned the daily commute into a daily headache. Late-night partiers risk assault for lack of a safe ride home. All of which cries out for a reliable and user-friendly transit service, […]
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Concerts vs. concerts
Who could have predicted that HRM’s non-policy of arbitrarily giving financial support to some for-profit promoters to put on concerts (e.g. Rolling Stones on the Common) and to denying it to others would lead to problems? Well, I could have, that’s who. I’m not saying the city shouldn’t support concerts at all— I’m saying the […]
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Some innocent person is going to die
Last year, I was horrified as I watched a high-speed police chase come right down Victoria Road, just five minutes before both Dartmouth High and Bicentennial School let out. Just those five minutes later, and kids would’ve been killed. And today, there’s this: A man wanted by police for escaping custody has been captured following […]