411 Radical Bay

So Belinda Stronach is quitting politics. Having been unable to purchase the leadership of the Conservative party and having chosen a rather...

Today is Opening Day, and I am happy, as my beloved Blue Jays open the season in Detroit, and my slightly less beloved Moscow Rats stagger, ...

...and I said nothing because I wasn't a smoker.

More insightful stuff later this week, I hope. For now, though, I'm just delighted that Michael Berube, last seen on the internets immed...

Italy is worse than useless as an ally. Not content to pay multi-million dollar ransoms and assist in smuggling terrorists/insurgents to s...

I doubt that anyone is still checking this, given the assiduousness with which Ian and I post, but regardless... I have had cause many times...

I would be surprised if we surived the next two years without the United States (George Bush, in particular) making the disastrous mistake o...

Grrrr. I don't like it when politicians I'm used to disliking do things that I'm forced to praise. So it is with B.C.'s Prem...

As I read the good news about the deal for North Korean denuclearization (eventually, we hope), I thought to myself, "wouldn't it b...

What happens when Top Gear hosts decide to drive around rural Alabama in cars and trucks with things like "Hillary for President,"...

More political stuff soon, I promise (he said, to people who were celebrating the long hiatus of Gray-penned political rants.) But you'v...

The video in this post is the coolest thing ever. That is all.

A really interesting look at the nightmare that a Dutch attempt to use biofuels to combat global warming produced. An attempt to offset a r...

Dan Savage, as usual, gets it right .

Premier Gordon Campbell defended his government's seizure of three of the surviving sextuplets born last month in Vancouver, and said T...

After a much-too-long break, during which what little readership we had has almost certainly given up on this blog, we're back for anoth...

I'm TIME magazine's Person of the Year! I rather think that the fellow with the yellow shirt and the guitar is supposed to be me. Se...

I opened my Globe this evening to find the following letter: KHALED MOUAMMAR national president, Canadian Arab Federation Richmond Hill...

According to Fox Sports, Vernon Wells is about to resign with the Blue Jays . As had been previously reported, the deal is supposed to be ar...

Because I have just the thing to chase that nasty old insomnia away: my thoughts on Stephen Harper's proposed Senate reforms. A hoary ol...

They're training sharks as spies . I haven't actually clicked on the story link-my selachophobia is a hyperdeveloped case. As Rob Fa...

Because now someone who doesn't walks among us . A very neat story about an artifical heart that doesn't "beat," but inste...

I like these man-bites-dog headlines. Next, an analysis of why the Yankees are the most lovable team in baseball. As perhaps you've hear...

Stephen Harper yesterday condemned the confab of kooks in Tehran denying the Holocaust as "an offense to all Canadians." I applau...

The federal NDP has issued a report card grading the various members of Stephen Harper's cabinet. It will perhaps not come as a surpris...

I know, it's a bit of a surprise to me too. But the news that the Mounties-Canada's national police force-have decided to fight agai...

I don't mean to turn this here blog into the all-Pinochet-apologetics-all-the-time channel, but the Washington Post-the Washington Post!...

There's an article up on ESPN about one of the more irritating contemporary sports merchandise trends today: pink jerseys and whatnot ta...

The Bates Motel, of Psycho fame, is being moved to make room for an apartment complex, according to this article in the Mail and Guardian ....

Let me say, Ian, that it's nice to have you posting so much to the blog after a short hiatus. I am myself in the middle of exams, so I h...

Via Matthew Yglesias , Jonah Goldberg demonstrates the utter moral bankruptcy of those on the right willing to defend Pinochet. The argumen...

Fresh off my inchoate apology for Mark Steyn , I came across this explication of right wing ressentiment , which says everything I said abo...

I'm starting to think we might have to issue another apology. As perhaps we've all heard by this point, Augusto Pinochet died on Su...

A twenty-five year old woman has been washed overboard from a Nova Scotia tall ship . The Picton Castle , based out of Lunenburg, is eight h...

An interesting little story on the wires today about a restaurant that seats its guests in total darkness . Much of the article is taken up ...

I have established an account at wordie , which accurately describes itself as "like Flickr, but without the photos." You can all ...

Besides our good looks, liberal politics and impeccable taste in office furniture, that is. We're both dual citizens, and while he has ...

The Blue Jays, official Favourite Team of Bed A of 411 Radical Bay, have missed out on Ted Lilly and signed Maritimer Matt Stairs to a cont...

I figured we could use a change of pace. Over at unfogged, there was recently a huge long discussion of an essay in the New York Times des...

Stephane Dion, in his first savvy move as Liberal leader, is giving the Liberal party a free vote on same-sex marraige . By allowing a free ...

Guiliano Zaccardelli has resigned as RCMP commissioner . The Mounties have been an increasingly unaccountable and dysfunctional organization...

I believe that 411 Radical is unanimous in its relief at the result of the Liberal convention. Bed A is, I think, more favourably disposed t...

I can't sleep. First impressions: Ignatieff could be in trouble. His numbers are exactly as they were counting only committed delegates....

Michael Ignatieff says, "Liberals are the ones who built this country." Oh, really, Iggy? I know someone who would be surprised ...

Rae in 5 ballots. Hedge: It might be Dion. Absolute declaration: It will not be Ignatieff. (In case of error, this post will self-destruct.)

There are countries in the world where you can be arrested and stripped of your rights by executive fiat; where you can be held without char...

The Commons will debate whether to review gay marriage legislation next week. Good. Harper can say he kept his promise, the Commons can vo...

We often hear that responding to climate change would simply cause too great a disruption to our economies, our lifestyles. The cost of inac...

Agree or disagree, one has to respect Michael Chong for resigning from cabinet over the motion on Quebecois nationalism. Here's a man ...

Official Friend of 411 Radical Bay Chris Harbord did just that recently, relocating to Inuvik, Northwest Territories to produce radio progra...

Thanks, Jay . You've roused me from my torpor. Muravchik's op-ed is sort of a greatest hits anthology of dumb reasons to bomb Iran ...

Seymour Hersh, probably the best investigative journalist in Washington, writes about the deliberations underway over Iran in the wake of R...

A report in the Telegraph claims that Iran is attempting to take effective control of al Qaeda, to use the organization to Iranian ends. Th...