And get this:

(And this):

A new twist on libel chill - in the UK a local council is using a criminal harassment law to sic the coppers on a Belfast-area blogger for criticizing a public official on his blog:
The critical point, from journalist’s or blogger’s point of view is that the PSNI have responded to a complaint against writing [...]

Like most natives, I live in a city far from my “home” reserve.  All of my friends are non-native.  Some of them watch the CBC - some even take it seriously. This means a lot of them have a lot of stupid ideas about natives.
As a public service, I’d like to address a few of [...]

I suspect that works out to a lot more than a nickle a litre:
The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to an energy study released Friday.
The report by the [...]

The people at the CBC are the worst villains in all of human history. Rather than pay $500 per broadcast for use of Canada’s second national anthem - the Hockey Night in Canada theme - they’d rather scrap it and hold an expensive contest:
Scott Moore, head of CBC Sports, says the public broadcaster is prepared [...]

Everyone knows that. Everyone in the Ottawa Citizen’s newsroom, I suppose. That’s why Mississauga Liberal MP Gurbax Mahli can be taken seriously for saying:
“I think it’s political,” he said. “How come in their areas are the numbers going up? In Mississauga and Vancouver the numbers are going down.”
He’s suggesting that the change in [...]

Now it’s just getting stupid.
First the British police were pushing around freethinkers for calling Scientology a cult, then they pushed around Christians for preaching on the streets of an officially Christian country, and now they’re pushing around nerds for just doing what nerds do.

Via the Evening Standard
An airline passenger claimed that a security guard threatened [...]

Some time tonight, this blog will get it’s 100,000th hit. For me, I’ve considered that the threshold for moderately respectable blogs. (1,000,000 would be the cut off for a big blog).
Thinking back, these are the posts that I’ve liked the best:
Noam Chomsky on the Steyn and Levant Cases
Canada on Mars
No Truth, No Reconcilliation
Praise [...]

Italy, you stay classy.
<<Translation: L’Uomo Nero - The Black Man>>

FYI: This is a mainstream paper run by the Italian Communist Party. And the article is talking about the obstacles Obama faces in winning the presidency. Namely that (loosely translated): “The general electorate that he needs to win over in order to get the [...]

I have nothing that I can add to this other than to say that I agree with it entirely. It’s a piece from the Guardian written by Daniel Johnson, the editor of a new magazine called ‘Standpoint‘.
The truth is that we owe to brave people from both left and right those values and principles [...]

The British Royal Marines have apologized to Malaysia for this ad. It hurt their feelings:
“We regret that this recruitment advertisement has been interpreted that Malaysians could be involved in terrorism,” said Anton Hanney, a Navy spokesman. “Having been made aware of the potential for offence it was [...]

It was really only a matter of time.
To make safer, more environmentally friendly explosives, scientists in Germany turned to a recently explored class of materials called tetrazoles. These derive most of their explosive energy from nitrogen instead of carbon as TNT and others do…
These compounds have great potential, “especially for large caliber naval and tank [...]