Archive for May, 2007


A rape conviction is better than a VC if you want to stay in Britain

Thanks to Blazing Cat Fur, who brought the story of the WWII Gurkha to my attention. Tul Bahadur Pun, of Nepal, fought for King and Country and was awarded the Victoria Cross for his services in the war. He took tea with the Queen Mother and attended the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. However, in [...]

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Mark Steyn is in My Ovaries

And he’s causing a helluva fuss. Ever since he wrote It’s the Demography, Stupid! last year, and then expanded it into America Alone, it feels as if he has singled me out to personally save civilization by breeding. And as if that’s not scary enough, my biological clock now ticks in his unusual pseudo-British voice. [...]

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Best paragraph ever written?

The Charter is merely a list of then-current Received Liberal Pieties and should have as much bearing on the average Canadian’s life as a six-year-old Chinese takeout menu. If written today it would include a clause making the separation of paper and glass mandatory for all householders, every other Wednesday. I do my best to [...]

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We’ve made the fish gay

Obviously this explains the prevalence of gay marriage, metrosexuals, and Colin & Justin. Back in the summer of 2001, a team of Canadian and U.S. researchers spiked a lake in Northwestern Ontario with traces of synthetic estrogen used in human birth control pills. They then repeated the unusual treatment for the next two years and [...]

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PACOM: Spirit of Cooperation

As part of my PACOM series (other posts here and here), I’d like to introduce you to Major Paul Young, of the Canadian Air Force. That’s right folks, there’s a Canuck on Oahu, and he isn’t just there to golf. He stands apart from his American counterparts, with his darker green digitized uniform (apparently the [...]

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