Wired Cola

If you're going to have a sidearm around the house, surely this one is the one you want.

Between that pistol and watching most of Apocalypse Now Redux on TV last night, I need only see Patton again for the pearl-handled trifecta.

It occurred to me as I typed that title that there are two chairmans Steve, and in fact the one I wasn't thinking of has more claim to that title, and he's in the news right now too.

Why am I so fascinated by enplaned, a gossipy blog of the airline industry? Why has digg taken over from Slashdot as my nerdfeed of choice? Why did I feel so beat up on the club ride yesterday? Why did the lower hinge bolts break on the Beetle's driver-side door? That just doesn't happen. Why do I still feel so tired after that club ride? Is the Old Yale Cream Ale just the best beer ever?

Macleans has assembled a pile of bloggers for their election coverage, including favourites of mine like Colby Cosh and Liberal bete noire Warren Kinsella. Of five bloggers, I count three who line up as decidedly right-of-centre, and two centrists. All are competent, but the real fun is in watching Maude Barlow, designated lefty, just utterly melt down as she stares into the abyss of a Conservative government.

Bruce Sterling on China. Andrew rightly smacked me around a bit in the comments the last time I posted on China, so it's gratifying to see Bruce concerned about corruption in China, too.

Here's the sixty-four dollar question: is corruption in China worse than in Singapore? I understand that Singapore is crony-ridden but not bribe-crazy, which seems to be just clean enough for prosperity. Singapore's per capita GDP is higher than that of South Korea or Taiwan, but lower than Hong Kong's.

Good gravy. The door hinge on The Good Thing broke. The bolts on the lower hinge sheared off.

That doesn't normally happen to normal cars.

So add that to the "bad" list.