Volkswagen shirt trespasses

I made a goofy t-shirt design that has one of my photos with a Volkswagen bug in it. I put it up for sale on Cafepress. Well it turns out that this is not allowed. I got a friendly letter from Cafepress saying that Volkswagen’s lawyer, Gregory D. Phillips, from...

The Pope’s nose

The Pope spanked Canada for its laws permitting gay marriage and abortion: “In the name of tolerance, your country has had to endure the folly of the redefinition of spouse,” the Pope told a group of bishops from Ontario. “In the name of freedom of...

Macompensation

To go along with Jen’s rant about Macs, I think I’ll write my own. I find the latest Mac TV ads hilarious and irritating at the same time. They have a bunch of them, with a smarmy “hip” Mac guy poking fun at the square, boring PC guy. The...

Israel bombs us

Apparently the Israelis are enraged by Kofi Annan’s suggestion that they bombed and killed UN observers on purpose. The Israeli military was bombing the area around that UN observation post all day yesterday until they hit the post directly last night. They...

Ghost cheque

I’m a bit freaked out. I went on a ghost walk last night, which was a tour of the Customs House, one of the city’s historical buildings. The guide told all kinds of stories about death and murders that had occurred in the building since the 1850’s....