The organizers of the Canadian Blog Awards have just started to roll out this year’s winners, and they’ve done something absolutely brilliant. I’m not going to spoil the surprise, but head over right away. Two are up so far - the best military blog and the best celebrity-media blog. You have to see this. Check it out now.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper on the young Afghan who dared to read about women’s rights.

How’s that for a statement - now, let me explain it.

Our lawyers tell us we’re not allowed to tell you who’s underneath the blanket, or what two of our favourite conservative bloggers are doing under there, or what species and devices are involved. But it’s ain’t pretty. So vote for us - OR THE BLANKET COMES OFF.

Our 5^th blogoversery was on January 21st…. I can assure you, there will be stern words spoken to those in the Hall of Records for not bringing this to our attention sooner!!

Thank all the gods who are, and ever were, that at least one of the readership is on top of things!

It’s hard to imagine but apparently it’s so, there are Canadian Republicans - in Oakvillle, Ontario.

While Ezra postures and pirouettes in the warm glow of his self-generated auto-da-fé, another story is quietly unfolding - one which will have REAL impact on the quantify and quality of information Canadians will be receiving over the next few years.

In which our favourite URQ blogger is smitten by Cupid’s arrow, just in time for Valentine’s Day. The Scentinel and Kate an item? Dung, miniature schnauzers AND Warren Kinsella? Read on!

Send a trackback, leave a comment, and start thinking about us two wheeled folks you’ll soon be sharing the road with again.

What’s that word for the mental disorder that allows its victims to host two utterly incompatible, contradictory ideas within the same cranium?

US to Israel: Avoid Gaza humanitarian crisis.

Israel to world: We won’t let it become a humanitarian crisis.

Egypt to world: It is a humanitarian crisis.

— that’s why the sanctions will work.

To provide our good friend Shlemazl with a forum for his obsession, and to help keep our other threads on track, we hereby launch this thread, whose title, I hope, is self explananatory - a place where fantasizing about Stageleft’s “hatred” doesn’t distract from more substantive content.

…and all five of them in her mouth.

It’s not just that the outcome was never in doubt. Stephen Harper commissioned an ex-politician whose views of the Afghan mission mirrored Harper’s from the outset. But that doesn’t matter: had the report been prepared by Maude Barlow, Jack Layton and the ghost of Mahatma Gandhi, the impact on the Harper government would have been the same.