Category Archives: unpredictable things

In case we didn’t already know that GW Bush’s presidency was a joke…

Bush says “goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter” and pumps fist in air.

Netherlands deserved to lose

Russia’s defence was strong, Netherlands’ defence was terrible. There’s only so much Van der Sar can do when his defenders are standing five steps away, *not* goal side.

Strong National Support for British Columbia’s Carbon Tax

A recent survey by the Pembina Institute found that 72% of Canadians support BC’s carbon tax, an idea that has been getting a fair bit of discussion recently in the blogosphere (I hate that word).
It seems like there’s a growing consensus (Jack Layton and Stephen Harper (!?) aside) that a carbon tax, rather than a [...]

Props to the Ontario Government

Ordered my replacement birth certificate (old one is being used as a bookmark in some forgotten book somewhere in the Concordia University library): Friday.
Replace birth certificate arrives: Tuesday.
Who says we don’t have a fast, efficient bureaucracy.
The unmarked envelope it arrive in was a bit sketchy, thought. I half-expected to just find it filled with mysterious [...]