Archive for September, 2004


The Importance of Playing Hookey

Playing hookey isn’t something I do very often, and I don’t take it lightly. It’s very painful for me to do, because I am a bit of a workaholic. However, it is for precisely that reason that I must do it from time to time. It keeps me from burning out completely. Today was one [...]

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Quote of the Day

Today’s quote goes to Crox at If You’d Rather Be Playing Golf, and regards the issue of banning fox hunting in Britain, which has caused rioting over the last few weeks: However what pisses me off is the time, effort and determination that this government is puting into this just to win a few votes. [...]

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A Day of Grief & Anger

Two American hostages have been killed in Baghdad. There is a chance that the third hostage, a Briton, will also be murdered. Al-Zarqawi’s group, Tawhid and Jihad, kidnapped two Americans – Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong – and Briton Kenneth Bigley on Thursday from a home that the three civil engineers shared in an upscale [...]

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If Only Health Were A Commodity

This is especially relevant to Canadians this week, as Paul Martin and the other idiots try to come to some agreement on how to get our horrid health system back on track. This is from the Adam Smith Institute blog in the UK: Thanks to the market economy, we are used to companies that appreciate [...]

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Driving Goes to the Dogs

This is too funny – I have no choice but to print it in full: A pedestrian in a Whitehorse suburb was taken aback Tuesday night when a black dog drove by in a red pickup truck. Police said a resident was out for a walk when a truck with a Labrador retriever at the [...]

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