Mission Hill wins InterVin 2011 Winery of the Year award
Margaret Swaine reports on the recent Intervin 2011 competition: Competitions like the InterVin International Wine Awards can and do make wines better. It’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation, as...
View ArticleRenewed call for Britain to issue a medal for WWII Arctic convoy veterans
A video report at the BBC website (no embedding allowed, unfortunately) looks at the campaign on the part of Arctic convoy veterans for a specific medal to recognize their amazing story. There are...
View ArticleNFL week 10 predictions
Well, the early game was a disappointment, as San Diego not only didn’t cover the spread, they lost the game. Hopefully the rest of my picks will return to above average form. ∅ @San Diego 17 Oakland...
View ArticleThe report from Greece
Michael Petrou and Stavroula Logothettis survey the Greek debt crisis in a report that Maclean’s cheekily headlines “Acropolis Now”: “We are finished as a nation,” says Marko Gjini, a 39-year-old...
View ArticleStephen Harper’s government is not small-c conservative
The National Post editorial board surveys the federal government’s economic record and discovers it’s really the old Liberal party in disguise: There is no question the Harper government has been...
View ArticleTyler Cowen on traditional values
In his latest New York Times column, Tyler Cowen looks at the relationship of wealth to traditional values of self-discipline and hard work: The Occupy Wall Street movement has raised important...
View ArticleNew wargame “ripped from the headlines”
Clash of Arms games is releasing a new wargame based on a possible Israeli airstrike against Iranian nuclear facilities: Speculation regarding a possible Israeli air campaign against Iran’s nuclear...
View ArticleBullying is bad: banning bullying would be worse
Wendy Kaminer on the District of Columbia (DC) City Council’s proposed anti-bullying rules: It started on college and university campuses, where repressive speech codes have been teaching generations...
View Article“We feel completely and utterly betrayed”
More on the campaign to grant a specific medal to the veterans of the WW2 Arctic convoys: They risked their lives again and again on what Churchill described as ‘the worst journey in the world’. The...
View ArticleBeating up on the Boomer generation
Walter Russell Mead has a bit of vitriol to spit at the Baby Boomers: But at the level of public policy and moral leadership, as a generation we have largely failed. The Boomer Progressive...
View ArticleRetired Gurkha soldiers changing the face of security services in Britain
An interesting article at the BBC website details how many retired Gurkha soldiers have found civilian careers in security a good follow-up to their military service: It has been suggested that some...
View ArticleNFL week 10 results
It seems appropriate that an ugly weekend should end in an ugly loss at Lambeau Field. My only consolation is, um, well, I’m sure there’s something there to take consolation from. I now have a...
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Vikings show no life in loss to Packers
This was an ugly game. It will turn up on Wikipedia as the definitive video illustration for both “ugly” and “futile”. Unlike the last match-up between the Vikings and Packers at the Metrodome, there...
View ArticleSalman Rushdie: Facebook is run by morons
There’s this chap on Facebook called Ahmed Rushdie. He’s a tad unhappy with Facebook over their naming policies: Facebook has upset Salman Rushdie after the company initially refused to let the...
View ArticleThe Occupy movement: the height of 21st century civilization?
Natalie Rothschild takes issue with a fellow journalist’s characterization of the Occupy movement: A late October edition of the New Yorker carried a ‘postcard’ piece on Occupy Wall Street (OWS). On...
View ArticleStephen Gordon: One does not simply end supply management
Stephen Gordon in the Globe and Mail‘s Economy Lab on the economically indefensible Canadian anomaly known as “supply management”: The best way to get a rise out of Canadian economists is to ask us...
View ArticleIdiotic British defence decision is USMC’s gain
Lewis Page explains why the USMC is getting a lovely windfall from Britain’s crack-brained decision to get out of the aircraft carrier business: Blighty’s famous force of Harrier jump-jets,...
View ArticleDon’t expect China to save your economy
Jon, my former virtual landlord, sent along this link which should pour cold water on the notion that China will step in to save the economies of other countries: China’s economy has a reputation for...
View ArticleThe gender wage gap won’t go away
Kay Hymowitz explains that even with the best will in the world, the wage gap — often referred to as the 75-cents-on-the-dollar phenomenon — between men and women will persist: Let’s begin by unpacking...
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The (sad) tale of the tape
Tom Pelissero has the task of going through the tape of Monday night’s game against the Packers, doing the stats and assessing the play of the team. It’s not a happy job: Here’s the tale of the tape...
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