Just stepped in the door ending a 3 week monster road trip which included plenty of politics, work and hanging with friends. Deeper thoughts from the trip’s conversations will hopefully go up tomorrow but in the meantime, two funny anecdotes: 1. I love San Fran. I love that the SF airport (Terminal One) has a [...]
San Francisco – the America everyone can love
Review of Graham Fraser’s “Sorry, I don’t speak French”
Dear friends, sorry for the long delay between posts. Between the convention last week and the 5 days of seminars in 3 cities I did this week I was a cooked noodle by the weekend. I’m back on the horse though, and even polished off “Sorry, I don’t Speak French” on the flight to Vegas. [...]
re-centralizing the internet?
So my buddy Mike B recently had a post linking to an absolutely hilarious “director’s cut” of Rooster Teeth’s commercial for the Madden07 video game. After showing it to some friends on Saturday, I tried again on Sunday and… somewhat ominously, the video had disappeared. The “director’s cut” shows a remake of the original Madden07 [...]
The DOW and Model Powers in Afghanistan
Modeling Power in Afghanistan? For those interested in Canada and Afghanistan do read Graeme Smith’s piece, “Doing it the Dutch Way in Afghanistan” in Saturday’s Globe and Mail. The Dutch have (apparently) been posted to a rough part of Afghanistan but have yet to suffer a casualty. All this is thanks to a novel strategy… [...]
Liberal Convention – the aftermath…
It’s over and I’m exhausted. So many thoughts about the convention and the race… but I’m too tired to think coherently, so here, scattered, are some of them: Best convention floor tactic: Dion’s neo-green shirts and scarves. In a party where everybody wants to be in red, Dion went neon-green. The genius of this was [...]
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