Jay Currie

After the kids got their PLAYMOBIL® and Susan her boots I had just enough money left over to get a new computer…or “new to me”. I managed to find a used “gaming rig” with one of those video cards which arrives with a fan bigger than your last video card for playing Counterstrike and a [...]

There is a lot about Fred Thompson’s social policy which I am not wild about. But I am loving his campaign and I am hoping he surprises people coming out of Iowa. In a sense this is artificially hokey. They could have ironed [...]

That is not to say that social scientists and computer programmers have nothing to offer the world, or the IPCC process. They are crucial in fact. What it is to say, however, is that, when social scientists, computer programmers and administrative assistants comprise a significant proportion of IPCC contributors, the global warmer mantra that the [...]

At one point a few years ago I made much of my living reviewing books for newspapers. Mainly history, biography and science but i was perfectly willing to review novels or whatever came to hand. The reviewing market has pretty much vanished in Canada and in much of the United States and I have moved [...]

This Dutch Ad makes fun of Muslim terrorists… Yo, LawisCool dudes…I laughed. File a complaint. For more fun check out the fireworks jihadi site LAAF.info Boom! Update: the humour challenged and resolutely anonymous commentor from Lawiscool wants to make it clear that Lawiscool and the complainants in what I am assuming the the Steyn case [...]

There are a lot of sharp comments on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. I think Wretchard at Belmont Club covers the democratic implications pretty clearly and Andrew McCarthy nails the inability of the West to actually understand what Pakistan is and how it operates. al Qaeda has claimed credit and there, perhaps, is the critical [...]

On Sept. 6, 2003, halfway through his 13-month deployment, Southworth and his military police unit paid a visit to the orphanage. They played and chatted with the children; Southworth was talking with one little girl when Ala’a dragged his body to the soldier’s side. Black haired and brown eyed, Ala’a spoke to the 31-year-old American [...]

After the United States has spent more than $5 billion in a largely failed effort to bolster the Pakistani military effort against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, some American officials now acknowledge that there were too few controls over the money. The strategy to improve the Pakistani military, they said, needs to be completely revamped. [...]

Catholic Insight has joined a range of Canadian publications, groups and individuals who have become targets of human rights-based legal attacks recently. In February 2007, Rob Wells, a member of the Pride Centre of Edmonton, filed a nine-point complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission, alleging that C.I. has targeted homosexuals as being a powerful [...]

The delightfully inarticulate law students over at Law is Cool have had twenty or so comments on one of their posts defending the right of the Muslim students to take Mark Steyn and Mcleans Magazine before the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Steyn Fans Spam Law is Cool. Apparently these are the ESL law students as [...]

I must admit I have always thought of Tucker Carlson as the ugly face of bright young thing conservatism and I think of Ron Paul as somehow aligned with the nitwits in Troother land and The New Republic as essentially engaged in making stuff up. This piece changed my mind on all three points.

An elementary school in Ottawa was flooded with hateful and threatening e-mails and phone calls after media reports that it had removed the word “Christmas” from a song to be performed at its Christmas concert. The choir at Elmdale Public School did not sing its controversial version of the song Silver Bells at its closed-door [...]

Jonathan Kay quotes Karen Selick on the unnecessary transaction costs of food banks and suggests that food banks are a waste of everybody’s time. Well they are up until you run out of money and your kids don’t have anything to eat. I’ve been close to that and I know people who have been in [...]

I was surfing and went to my friend Edward Micheal George’s blog wherein I discovered: Oh, and on his web site, he still promotes links to a loser who writes articles about “the kosher tax,” and another one who says “F**k The Jews.” And one who says he is a bigot. [eds. note, That would [...]

The YouGov poll indicates that the Conservatives go into the new year with a 12-point lead over Labour. Gordon Brown: Poll puts Tories 12 points ahead of Labour Women and manual workers are deserting Brown’s Labour in droves In an election, the poll result would lead to David Cameron winning a “workable majority” in the [...]

Dr Rowan Williams has claimed there was little evidence that the Magi even existed and there was certainly nothing to prove there were three of them or that they were kings. Archbishop says nativity ‘a legend’ Dr Williams argued that the traditional Christmas story was nothing but a ‘legend’ He said the only reference to [...]

USA: Dr. David Wojick is a UN IPCC expert reviewer, who earned his PhD in Philosophy of Science and co-founded the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie-Mellon University: “In point of fact, the hypothesis that solar variability and not human activity is warming the oceans goes a long way to explain the puzzling [...]

via The Tiger Strictly speaking, mat is a language built upon only five (5) extremely vulgar roots. Using the rules of Russian grammar and word formation, verbs, adjectives, and nouns of every kind can be formed—entire sentences (and diatribes) composed exclusively of mat vocabulary. Days to learn, a lifetime to master. russian cursing.com Jonathan Raban, [...]

Brilliant. Sure, there have been women Prime Ministers: Golda Meir, Indira Ghandi and the fabulous Mrs. Thatcher. But it would be pretty much impossible to, notwithstanding Amis pere’s weird interest in Mrs. T, say these were, well, babes…or even milfs. Ms. Tymoshenko, along with her solid democratic credentials and sheer Ukrainian patriotism, is hot. Now, [...]