…we’re just catching the last ten minutes.

Is it the worst ending to the worst political movie ever made, or is there an even more appalling candidate?

Tiger arrived at my house just as we were leaving for work. I have yet to delve into it too thoroughly, but I can already tell that its Spotlight search function and Automator, um, automating function are going to be very big.

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1. I mistook the Educational Policy Institute for the fringe-right-wing Education Policy Institute. Oops.
2. I didn’t double and triple check before posting a blog comment based on my misapprehension. Double and triple oops.
3. I apologized over there, and I’ll apologize over here: to Alex Usher and the non-crazy EPI, I’m sorry for my carelessness and the unwarranted implications of my comment.

Tiger is coming…

Transcending the boundaries of (non-tech) geekiness, I’ve now set up ODTAA to mirror headlines from the BC NDP election web site. My ally: FeedWordPress, a cunning little plugin for converting RSS feeds to blog posts.

Strange thing: The Tyee published a book critical of the provincial Liberals six weeks ago, and can’t seem to get it reviewed:

Highly decorated journalists contributed brand new reports to Liberalized: The Tyee Report on BC under Gordon Campbell’s Liberals. The book breaks news, including Will McMartin’s FOI-backed bombshell that Campbell had documents showing he was inheriting a fat surplus of $1.5 billion just before his 2001 announcement that NDP left finances “worse than expected.”

Given there’s an election and all, you might expect Liberalized to get reviewed in BC. But six weeks after publication not a peep from the big newspaper chains, just a few paragraphs in Victoria’s Monday magazine and a short, buried review in this week’s Georgia Straight.

So at the very time I need to be focussing all my thoughts on the provincial scene, someone has gone and created the very distracting Nomination Watch:

The plan is to use this as a one-stop-shopping place to see who’s nominated, who’s seeking nomination and who’s testing the waters in advance of the forthcoming federal election. News will hopefully be rooted mainly in published reports, but word of mouth gossip will also be accepted…

It’s already crammed with reports and rumours, Wells has given it a plug, and it’s only been eight hours since it launched.

You hate to say “I told you so” to a guy like Bono, especially on the urgent issues he’s fighting for:

Rock superstar Bono is irked by Martin’s refusal to meet a long-stated standard for foreign aid increases.

“I’m annoyed,” the U2 frontman says in an exclusive interview to be aired today on CBC Radio’s The House.

“I’m bewildered, really. I’m disappointed. I can’t believe that Paul Martin would want to hold up history.”

Sorry, but bringing history to a grinding halt is exactly what the Martin years months have been all about. Delaying, temporizing, fiddling… (I’m desperately trying to avoid saying “dithering”)… dawdling, dallying, vacillating, shilly-shallying…

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