Archive for October, 2008

All hail the Do Not Call List

slack woman, words| 10 Comments »

See my Herald column here. The people have been freed. We can now walk in our own homes undisturbed by telemarketers from far away lands trying to sell us financial products we do not want. We can now work in silence, uninterrupted by the constant ring of a phone with automated speech systems on the [...]

No knockout punches, please!

Canada, politics| 5 Comments »

This is debate night. In Canada we have The Debates, Part II, in English with all five federal leaders. In the States, we have the VP debates: Palin vs Biden. Normally the media likes a tired, cliched boxing metaphor to describe these events In the US debate this may work: (think Rocky theme) “Ding! And [...]