Category: Canada

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    White Rain?

    Hold off on this month’s carbon offset allotment until I can figure out what this white stuff is on the radar. May need to send a dispatch up to my northern correspondent to find out which works better, table salt or kosher salt?

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    Cold Hard Truth

    The Weekly Standard reports that last month was one wicked cold January. Talk about your inconvenient truths.  Saw it first at AoSHQ Of course leave it to Canadians to find the upside: Photo and smokin’ cold Alexander Keith’s courtesy of northern correspondent bigdino

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    Catching Up

    I guess I should have put one of these up after my last post.  “Semitough has reached the end of the broadcast day.” Younger readers accustomed to 24X7 television may not recognize a test pattern or understand that TV stations used to sign off for the night and there was nothing on overnight. One of […]

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    “Profoundly Disturbing”

    Those are the words our Canadian correspondant, Bigdino, uses to describe this picture. And believe me when the Dino is disturbed there is something to be disturbed about. According to the Great Northern reports this image, amongst others, has been making the rounds on the canadatubes. This insideous email purports to be for educational purposes […]