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Happy to see this. As I wrote in a column a few days ago, it is appalling how some media – and the prosecutors in the case – have falsely suggested that “honour killing” is sanctioned by Islam.

Will the Kingston Crown’s bosses be taking action with the prosecutors who propagated this BS? I sure hope so.

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Most U.S. presidents have been left-handed, did you know that?

Personally, I think lefties should be burned at the stake, like in the good old days. Among other things, it would provide a bit of extra space on public transit in the mornings.

What’s your view? Lefties, we don’t care what you think. (Hey! I sound like Gord Tulk!)

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Thirty-one years ago today. Makes me feel old and sad. His music hadn’t been very good, at the end, but I still miss him.

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Krista tries to remain poised as my jacket collar goes awry. Terror and chaos ensue.

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…we need gun safety laws in this country:

• Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student
• Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
• Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
• Barbara Daigneault (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
• Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968), chemical engineering student
• Maud Haviernick (born 1960), materials engineering student
• Maryse Laganière (born 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique’s finance department
• Maryse Leclair (born 1966), materials engineering student
• Anne-Marie Lemay (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
• Sonia Pelletier (born 1961), mechanical engineering student
• Michèle Richard (born 1968), materials engineering student
• Annie St-Arneault (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
• Annie Turcotte (born 1969), materials engineering student
• Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (born 1958), nursing student

 

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Quote a discredited Big Oil report; demand that we make booze cheaper, with all the bad things that usually means; and, make the stunningly obvious observation that electricity costs more than it used to.

Did we get that right?

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Conservatives dislike differences. They just do.

In fact, conservatives dislike anything — policies, programs, people — at odds with what they consider to be normal.

It’s not conjecture, either. It’s a scientific fact! A bunch of studies have been done on this, and they’re a lot of fun to read, although possibly not for conservatives.

The conservative disdain for differences goes back to the cradle, no less. One celebrated American study found that whiny, insecure kids — you know, the ones who thought (accurately) that all of their classmates hated them, and were continually complaining (inaccurately) about how everyone was mean to them — tended to be conservatives.

The study, which was published in something called The Journal of Research Into Personality, tracked a bunch of Berkeley, Calif.-area kids going back to the 1960s. Two married Berkeley psychology professors, Jack and Jeanne Block, studied more than 100 nursery school kids, relying upon the insights of the teachers who knew them the best.

The Blocks weren’t interested in political orientation, just personality traits. The three- and four-year-olds were rated according to how they behaved, and the Blocks carefully maintained and weighed the data. The kids were surveyed at regular intervals — at ages 4, 5, 7, 11, 14, 18, 23 and, finally, 32. What they found validated the suspicions of every tax-raising, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, body-piercing, left-wing freak show type — like me — had.

The whiny, paranoid little kids grew up to become conservatives!

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Picture courtesy Don Martin of CTV.

Wow. Just wow.

Caption contest! [And be nice. Or as nice as you can be.]

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I was at my daughter’s swim meet, and leaving her to watch the Dippers debate would have been a bit weird.  So I asked Twitter followers to give me their assessment.  Here are some of the best ones.

In this batch, I particularly like Bumstead’s:

And in this batch, I think the winner is Adam, I think:

But the topp (ahem) winner was the irrepressible Stephen Taylor!

UPDATE: Kady’s a kopy-kat.

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