The Last Post (here)

After much consideration I have accepted a long-standing offer from Greg Farries to join ThePolitic.com as a contributor. This move is necessary. My work and family responsibilities do not afford the time required to keep a blog active, fresh, engaging and current. There is much greater benefit from joining a company of similarly-minded people whose combined efforts keep content flowing.

Much thanks to those who have encouraged me to continue to write over the past six years. Thanks as well to those who have engaged in the fair exchange of ideas in comments. Blogging has been a wonderful experience thus far.

This first journey ends here and begins another leg over there, at ThePolitic.

Over and out.

Looks like a lemur to me

A counterPUNCH to Darwinius masillae.

Very much worth the read.

Big brother is watching, Halifax

And you thought this sort of stuff was the domain of Britain.

Halifax police intend to step up camera surveillance in public places in metro, the city's police chief said Tuesday.

Chief Frank Beazley said Halifax Regional Police officers will be using portable digital equipment in the near future to record images at "hot spots" in the municipality, and such public gatherings as rock concerts.

Cue the feel-good all-positive message: The law-abiding have nothing to fear.

Asked if extra police snooping is an invasion of privacy, Mr. Kelly said law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear. "For those who cause concern for others, you'll have things to worry about," the mayor said, adding, additional surreptitious camera work will hopefully lead to crime prevention and the arrests of lawbreakers.

Counterpoint.

Character is beautiful

Witness Miss California 2009, Carrie Prejean, willing to stand for her principles rather than sell out for an accolade.

This is real beauty. It must have come as an absolute shock to all and sundry at the so-called "beauty" pageant that a woman on the verge of victory would hold true to her principles and risk an earthly crown rather than support a politically correct code with which she disagreed. Like a miner turning on a halogen in a dark mine, inner beauty displacing all facades. Spectacular.

Questioner and now even more renowned gay bigot, Perez Hilton, has called Miss California a dumb b***h for refusing to genuflect at his PC throne. If there was ever something to throw real beauty into even greater relief, it would be a gay bigot smearing this woman's integrity with his caustic hatred.

I wonder how it is that a woman's inner beauty, integrity, strength and character makes her worthy of such viciously derogatory comments from a judge, no less, instead of counting as something positive.

External beauty is fleeting. Inner beauty lasts forever and is greater. Bravo!, Miss Cali.

Update 04.22.09: Roland Martin -- Miss California, thanks for being honest.

A lot of folks are always saying they like to keep it real, that they want authenticity and straight talk. Yet when someone actually does it, there is hell to pay.

The great thing about Good Friday

... is that Sunday is coming.

God bless you and yours this Easter celebration season.

Next stop in the witchhunt: MP James Lunney

... for daring to stand alongside a Christian MP who believes in The Creator, The Judeo-Christian God, YHWH.

Would that a few more Christians, Jews and Muslims from all parties would step forward and confirm their faith publicly.

A job well done

Seal hunters returned to the ice in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence for a few hours Wednesday to kill the last remaining seals allowed under their quota off Iles de la Madeleine.

Phil Jenkins, a spokesman for the federal Fisheries Department, said about 17,200 seals were killed on Monday and Tuesday, leaving only a few hundred remaining before the hunt ended at 10 a.m. local time.   -- ChronicleHerald

But there's still more work to do.

The federal government has set a combined allowable catch for this year's East Coast seal hunt of 338,200 harp, hooded and grey seals.

Good luck on the floes a-swilin' y'all. May fair winds fill your sails and bonny weather lighten your steps.

CBC questions Fox's balance

Yes, Greg Gutfeld is a tool.

But the $1.1 billion state-funded Liberal-shilling CBC questioning Fox's balance? That's just laughable, not to mention incredibly ironic -- almost hypocritical -- given CBC News' front page regularly features the likes of Neil MacDonald and Heather Mallick.

The other incredibly delicious and telling point: CBC never features anything from Fox unless it can be used to question its credibility. Same applies for objective news that draws CBC's credibility into question.