Life is full of odd little coincidences. Take the fact that on the same day that ‘Deep Throat’ is unmasked, Gurmant Grewal has finally released his collection of Dosanjh and Murphy bootlegs.

(Well, maybe it’s a mix tape. At least one blogger is asking why the “four hours of conversation” only comes out to one hour, fifteen minutes.)

Though separated by three decades, two scandals… Read more...

Fox News’ London bureau chief Scott Norvell explains what they mean by “balanced”:

Even we at Fox News manage to get some lefties on the air occasionally, and often let them finish their sentences before we club them to death and feed the scraps to Karl Rove and Bill O’Reilly.

He’s making the point that, at least with Fox, you know about their biases, whereas those sly… Read more...

CBC Radio is wonderfully, fantastically open to freelancers. But one of the harder aspects of working with them is their understandable reluctance to use phone interview clips.

Little wonder: phone conversations sound awful, and nearly always have some irritating background buzz that can stump even the most gifted sound engineer.

But if you want to do a story where the setting goes further afield than just across town… Read more...

CBC News reports on a Harvard study, based on documents obtained thanks to a settlement in a massive lawsuit against Big Tobacco; the upshot is nicely summed up in the headline, Tobacco companies designed cigarettes to addict women, study says:

“These internal documents reveal that the tobacco industry’s targeting of women goes far beyond marketing and advertising,” said lead author Carrie Murray Carpenter, a research analyst at the… Read more...

So you’ve been reading blogs for a while. You get a lot out of it, but you can’t shake the nagging feeling that there has to be more to it than this. Surely you ought to be able to read blogs more easily, filter content more effectively, and maybe even start blogging yourself…

Indeed you ought, and now you can. Alexandra Samuel has assembled her list of

From the great folks at Terminal City, news that Yuk Yuks feels kind of possessive with its signed comics:

Sometimes jokes are no laughing matter. A local comedian who organises a monthly talent showcase says the Canadian comedy chain Yuk Yuk’s is warning it will ban any performers who appear at his show, something Yuk Yuk’s vehemently denies.

….Mike Breslin, General Manager of Yuk Yuk‚Äôs Vancouver, paints… Read more...

So it turns out that “No Child Left Behind” isn’t just an empty Republican promise on education… it’s also a recruiting strategy for the U.S. military:

This federal law [the "No Child Left Behind Act"] that is supposed to help create better educated children also mandates that all public secondary schools hand over students’ previously protected private contact information to military recruiters. Schools must now allow them on… Read more...

If there’s a word you rarely associate with the political left, it might just be “glee”. (It might also be “highly-paid”. But let’s run with “glee”.)

Well, rarely-associate no longer. Scott Piatkowski revels in schadenfreude over the spiky beds that Conservatives and Liberals have made for themselves over the past while. A sample:

A question for former Mulroney Cabinet Minister John Crosbie:
When did you decide that… Read more...