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Travis Biehn wins on appeal

2006-09-29T11:06:00.000-04:00

Travis Biehn, the Newfoundland-born teenager who was convicted in Pennsylvania last year of making a bomb threat against his school and possessing explosives, has won his appeal. Biehn's conviction...

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Newspaper of record

2006-09-23T11:42:00.000-04:00

It seems like only Wednesday, the 20th of September, 2006, that I confessed to be "not much for the pedantry of copy editors, those sad, tired subterranean creatures who occasionally raise their...

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Harper must resign

2006-09-20T23:24:00.000-04:00

Over at Bowie's Call, James Bowie looks at the facts and draws the only possible conclusion: Stephen Harper must resign.We in Canada can put up with many things, but this is too much to bear:"The...

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On picking and choosing

2006-09-19T16:58:00.000-04:00

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has published a study warning that Canada is suffering a disproportionately high casualty rate in Afghanistan, and projecting 108 deaths by the end of our...

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We have Gordon. No police.

2006-09-19T12:13:00.000-04:00

Sympatico sends me a semi-spam:As a valued client of Sympatico™ service from Bell, we wanted you to be the first to know that Gordon, our spokesbeaver, has gone missing. He left a note saying he...

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Love, Theft, and Model Aeroplanes

2006-09-18T12:02:00.000-04:00

It's sad to read all the fuss surrounding this past week's crisis in the music world: the shocking discovery that Bob Dylan lifted lyrics for Modern Times from the nineteenth Century American poet...

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On the missing of points

2006-09-18T11:52:00.000-04:00

Big City Lib rubs a few brain cells together in an attempt to strike a spark, but succeeds only in crushing them like overcooked macaroni:Operation Medusa was an exercise in futility. The insurgents...

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Live by the sword

2006-09-16T11:34:00.000-04:00

The Globe & Mail provides my daily laugh at the expense of others. In this case, I'm laughing at the expense of Dog, the Bounty Hunter, otherwise known as Duane Chapman. Dog, who, I hasten to...

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Shut up. Just shut up.

2006-09-14T21:17:00.000-04:00

There's no end of squawking, squealing and carrying on in the world o' blogs following the shootings at Dawson College in Montréal. This proves the gun registry doesn't work, or alternatively, proves...

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Tanks for asking

2006-09-13T16:48:00.000-04:00

The dark hour of the knotting of panties is upon us. News that Canada will send 15 Leopard tanks to Afghanistan has prompted all kinds of jabbering in the world o' blogs, and also in the world o'...

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Money well spent

2006-09-11T16:01:00.000-04:00

In health news, the Globe & Mail reports that researchers have developed a drug to stop premature ejaculation. What with Viagra and now this, we have a suite of drugs to get you through the...

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Southern X Yellow Dog

2006-09-10T18:24:00.000-04:00

The critical reaction to Bob Dylan's new album, Modern Times,* has been fun to watch. Most of it has been strongly positive, although one suspects at times that the critic doesn't really know why...

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McAfee, how dost thou suck?

2006-09-09T14:49:00.000-04:00

A poem for Saturday:Ode to McAfeeHow dost thou suck?Let me count the ways:No, what the fuckI can't count that high I'm only a Nobel-prize winning Mathema Fucking ...

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Music is their business...

2006-09-08T15:45:00.000-04:00

... and business is stagnant, foul-smelling, and infested with leeches.If you were to listen* to the Tragically Hip's new single, "In View" (which you would do by finding the link on the left side of...

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Return of the Eddie Award

2006-09-01T12:38:00.000-04:00

Once in a long while, or a shorter while if an election campaign happens to be underway, someone writes something so stupid that it really deserves recognition. This is why we at the Wonderdog...

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Steve and Me

2006-08-04T16:57:00.000-04:00

Dear Prime Minister Harper,I have been impressed by the way in which you have responded to the deaths of Canadian soldiers serving in Afghanistan, most recently yesterday, by steadfastly urging...

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Syd Barrett, 1946 - 2006

2006-07-11T12:06:00.000-04:00

Syd Barrett, one of the founding members of Pink Floyd and its first principal songwriter, has died.A lot of people just don't get Syd Barrett. The most common response to Pink Floyd's first album,...

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Needed: one editor. Just one!

2006-07-10T08:17:00.000-04:00

One of the wonderful things about reading the masthead of a magazine such as Maclean's is their plethora of editors. There's an editor-in-chief, an editor, an executive editor, two editors-at-large,...

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Well done, OPP

2006-06-29T16:48:00.000-04:00

OPP press release:SMITHS FALLS, ON, June 29 /CNW/ - The Ontario Provincial Police Eastern Region are warning business owners that [sic] have an office or residence attached to their business to use...

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Out of the mouths of....

2006-06-12T14:49:00.000-04:00

.... er, well, not quite out of the mouths of babes, as such....“Al-Qaeda in Iraq's council has agreed on Sheik Abu Hamza al-Muhajer to be the successor for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the leadership of...

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All stocked up

2006-06-12T11:51:00.000-04:00

One of Jack Nicholson's best lines in As Good as it Gets is "Go sell crazy someplace else. We're all stocked up."Which leads me neatly to Ann Coulter, who is definitely selling crazy these days --...

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Okay, then.....

2006-06-09T21:17:00.001-04:00

All I can say is, thank God for the Internet and bloggers like Kate! Where else but Insufficiently Dead Animals can you get directed to paranoia, idiocy and prejudice masquerading as the truth?*Look...

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Tall tales

2006-06-09T10:50:00.000-04:00

From CBC:Abu Musab al-Zarqawi initially survived the American air strike in which he was fatally injured, a U.S. general said Friday ... He said troops on the scene gave medical assistance to the...

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This is the greatest blog post ever

2006-06-08T13:37:00.000-04:00

Hard on the heels of the news, chronicled by Greg Staples, that Oasis's Definitely Maybe has been voted the Greatest Album of All Time, the Toronto Star informs us of a further mockery:It's another...

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If you can't say something nice....

2006-06-08T12:36:00.000-04:00

... then don't say something nice: that's my motto. No need to let the asinine rule the earth out of a misplaced sense of politeness.So I generally avoid saying nice things around here. But once in a...

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