We want strong gov't, damn it!

In a shopping mall 11 miles from The Capital building. (It's an ad for gym membership!)

Whom to honor on memorial day?

Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren.

Visit here for a story first printed in the Boston Globe for Memorial Day, 1976. History does, indeed, repeat.

How green are you?

Take the Greendex here. Then do something to improve your score.

Maurice out. Nonis in?

TML cut Paul Maurice loose. Rumour is that ex-Canucks GM, Dave Nonis may be targeted for Leafs GM duties in 2008 -09 (before Brian Burke comes over - fingers crossed!). More.

What would you leave behind?

I must be overtired, stressed or going through some hormonal trough as this (read together with the song playing) made me cry today.

What would you leave behind when all your fields are dead?
When your territories are dried out and your cities drowned and swept
What would you leave behind when those who bear your name
Are born in that place that you wrecked?
What would you leave behind when you're no longer there?

To hear the song, go here and click on music player; the tune is "No Longer There."