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This is where Goldblatt lost me.  Yes, Churchill is a nutjob, and there are other nutjobs in academia (as there are in all elements of society), but where do these 10% and 25% figures come from?  Is this a serious problem, or is he making a mountain out of a molehill?  I haven't been on...

Today they are the British Columbia Dragoons. http://www.army.dnd.ca/39CBG_HQ/bcd.htm

Not quite.  In the line of succession after the VP comes Speaker of the House of Representatives, then President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and then Secretary of State (which is the first cabinet officer in line, but 4th, not 3rd). http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_succ.html And to answer...

I lived in Louisiana from 2001-2003, waaaaay down the bayou, where obvious racism still exists.  The rednecks around absolutely loved Condi, because of her strong conservative views, and her straightforward approach (as opposed to the litany of corrupt politicians that Louisiana has endured over...

Which doesn't mean that his tin foil hat isn't on a little too tight.  His PhD is in economics, so I would say he's wandering outside of his area of expertise. http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/eco/eng/profdetails.asp?login=mchossudovsky

Here in France, "basic European values" means liberté, egalité, fraternité.  The key point of those three is the third- franternity.  Frenchman (even the new ones) should feel fraternal towards their fellow Frenchmen.  In an effort to reach out to the local Chinese population (which has been...

She shows her penchant for disloyalty by being loyal to her husband?  I'm not sure that makes sense. So why should their marriage be any different from the millions of other sham marriages that have survived (multiple) incidents of infidelity?  Or maybe she did the Christian thing and forgave...

d'oh! :blotto:

I read an opinion piece last week (I wish I could remember where...) that suggested one of Bush's keys to political success was that he engenders such hatred in his opposition that they end up looking like frothing-at-the-mouth-idiots, rather than reasoned people in disagreement.  Bill Clinton...

So is Clinton a political mastermind who is willing to screw his own party for personal advancement, or is he a bumbling oaf who was just following his 1992 strategy for defeating Bush?  Given his record, I'd think he's more susceptible to a simple lapse in judgement than a Machiavellian desire...

Actually Spielberg has a deal with ABC that says they can't show an edited version of the film.  The stations that were concerned about being fined asked the FCC for clarification of the rules, but the FCC declined to explain if the stations would be fined or not.  Since some stations did air...

I was at Queen's in the mid 90's, and my housemate was taking first year sociology.  They were having a nice philosophical discussion in class about prisoners having the right to university education, and most of the students seemed to be for it.  The professor then mentioned that Homolka was...

The exchange between John Glenn and Metzenbaum smells like an urban legend to me (Metzenbaum couldn't be that stupid, could he?), but it's true according to snopes (although the context is a little different than previously presented). http://www.snopes.com/quotes/glenn.htm

I can't comment about Americans living in Canada, but there is a pub here in Paris that conducts an informal exit poll of American voters in the area.  Kerry won the exit poll by about 55%-45% (i don't recall the numbers exactly, and there were about 500 respondants).  These results are...

Of course not- how could she? ;D

Even if you're skeptical about the effectiveness of the missile defense systems, it's very important to participate in the process of continental defense.  If we just stamp our feet and refuse to play like a petulant child, we won't have ANY say about how we should defend North America.

Sorry Pappy, but eliminating the cost of the no fly zones as a justification for the war in Iraq is a complete farce.   The US has already spent ~$80B on the war, and will spend billions more over the next several years maintaining some sort of military presence in the region.   Saving $1B per...

As an interesting contrast to the original question about Canadians caring about the military, I was in Scotland last week when the announcement was made that the Black Watch were heading to Fallujah.  I took a cab that night in Edinburgh, and the cabbie happened to be the father of a Black...

Military experience was definitely a huge asset for me getting a civvy job.  I work in the oilfield (which is unrelated, but also prizes the ability to get the job done under adverse circumstances).  When I hired on in Grande Prairie, there were 16 engineers in the shop, and half of us had...

I agree with some of what you say here, but I have to point out a couple of things.   The House of Commons should be filled with commoners (ie people who are not part of the nobility), not necessarily people who are ordinary. Looking up the definition for common, and some of them fit what is...