Rosie LaRose's Tuesday Top Six

1. NOT ENOUGH FINGERS AND TOES You have problems when your minister of finance can't count. (Impolitical) And that's why Prime Minister Harper hates the parliamentary budget office (TorStar).

2. DON STANDS ALONE Note to Don Morgan: when you become the laughingstock of Murray Wood (CJME) Murray Mandryk (L-P) and the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix editorial board (S-P via The Jurist), you've endorsed a dumb idea.

3. ALWAYS BLAME THE PEON If this is true, well ... if that's the way the Conservative government treats its employees, it doesn't deserve to have any. (A BCer in Toronto)

4. LAYING MICHAEL TO REST Today's the day of Micheal Jackson's memorial. The LA Times has full-blown coverage here, here, here, here, here, here, maybe here too, and also here. And don't forget, here. One New York Times columnist probably won't be welcome. (NYT)

5. IT'S NOT JUST IRAN Ethnic violence in China is on the upswing. (Los Angeles Times)

6. BECAUSE I LIKE YOU AND WANT YOU TO SMILE Here's nice little treasure on line: three blogger's 25 favourite Calvin and Hobbes cartoons (Progressive Boink).