The Disaffected Lib

If you're a Boomer, you still haven't figured out what your kids, much less your grandkids, are listening to now. Guess what? You...

Canadian as I am (from that part of Canada that fought for our freedom in 1812-14) I still grew up less than 10 miles, in a straight line, f...

Does it really get much better than this? They turned my life to Blues when I was 15 and I've been a Stones devotee ever since. You puri...

I fired up my two-wheeler Beemer today and sallied forth into the cold, cold Great Outdoors. I don't own a Hummer or an SUV of any descr...

It's something every Canadian kid understands. Sure the water feels cold when you gingerly put a toe in but it's not until that wate...

Joe "The German" Ratzinger, who also goes by the stage name of Pope Benedict Ex Vee Eye or Benedict XVI, has nixed the excommunica...

America's problem isn't finding a way to free up credit. It isn't the federal government's debt. The problem is that the cou...

Nothing too surprising there. CanWest reports that 53% of Canadians believe the feds must run a deficit between 30 to 40-billion dollars ...

These two clips, courtesy of The Guardian , show US Airways 1549 coming down in New York's Hudson River. The first clip shows how gentl...

Barack Obama's committment to transparency and accountability in government may call the curtain down on the era of authoritarianism and...

Along the West coast of North America from California to British Columbia, trees are dying faster, almost twice as fast as they did only thr...

BBC News has a fascinating story about the legendary Porsche automaker and how it became a "a hedge fund with a carmaker attached....

It's hardly the best way to recall the momentous day but, according to McClatchey Newspapers, Obama's inauguration day also turned o...

What does Israel's failed war in Gaza have to do with the West's war in Afghanistan and the American misadventure in Iraq? All of th...

Poor Stephen Harper and, to a lesser extent, poor Iggy. Both must be feeling a bit like the sap who shows up in a pirate costume only to f...

We lost Afghanistan? Yeah, that's right. We lost Afghanistan because we chose to lose, or at least Washington chose to lose it. We lost...

One guy who's gotten a lot of mileage out of the Bush years is The Guardian editorial cartoonist Steve Bell. Here's Steve's ...

Hamas won't like it. Israel won't like it. That sure sounds like a way forward to me. A rough idea of President Obama's init...

Apparently realizing just how incredibly stupid they look, the Harper government is pulling its thumb out and taking a close look at the Tor...

Remember when Stevie Harper pulled our leg by promising us transparent, accountable government? Instead he pulled a shroud over the federa...