Once again it is the day before Saturday. It has been a good week around
here. No rocking out or anything but spring sprang and, really, that is half the
battle of the entire calendar:
- Update: It must be a requirement that you can prove that you have
been hit on the temple with a hammer recently to get to be a conservative
columnist. It has to be. Look at Andrew
Coyne’s shell game in his column today:Of course, part of the reason the provinces are so
loose with the coin is the benefactions of Uncle Ottawa, which Ontario and
Quebec in particular have proved adept at squeezing in all the right places. The
McGuinty government, which made the fictional “$23-billion gap” its war cry,
quietly pocketed over $13.2-billion in federal cash last year, a 34% increase
from just two years ago. Quebec, likewise, enjoyed an 8% increase in the last
fiscal year.It is not surprising, given the fine fiscal
understanding behind Tory-nomics, that he would not get the difference between
gross and net in his stunning analysis of Ontario’s position but equating Saudi
Albertia and Quebec as co-horts in economic solidity it dumbfounding. Compared
to this, David Frum comes across as
lucid. - Update: “…an eccentric old uncle who’s ignored…” Discuss.
- Update: pause a moment for the
250 year old tortoise that passed away in India. Born around 1755. - The Flea has posted a link to the best hoax
(unless the turtle story turns out to be one) that I have ever seen on the
internet. I am a huge sucker and the use of a gesticulating professor was a
brilliant diversion. - I was thinking about the bleating cry of the Boing Boing the other day when I read yet
another rant about how the law of ownership should be amended because people
have figured out a better way to steal…when it occurred to me that I have
never seen a fair trade argument in relation to Digital Rights Management. How
is it that we are so concerned about Juan Valdez and rightly seek out better
coffee and other goods which are sold with fewer dollars going to the middle man
and more to Juan but we do not use the same model for Juanita, his guitar
playing cousin? Maybe because we would steal all Juan’s coffee if we could? - I gleefully watched LSU
beat Duke last night but realized quickly that no one in the pool
saw the
loss coming so no one gets the big points on question #1. I hearby declare
after 5837 have declared it before me that Glen “Big Baby” Davis is the new
Shaq. I remember the, what, 1989 LSU March Madness and the side of beef that did
ballet called Shaquille O’Neal. It was deja vu all over again. - Was Stevie always this chubby
or has someone done this
to him?