8.04.2009

Rosie LaRose’s Top Six This Fine Morning …

1 OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING … I don't know anything that would cheer a person up more on a day such as today than a photo essay of public and private fallout shelters from around the world. (Good Magazine)

2 AND THAT'S THE WAY IT IS? IF WALTER CRONKITE WERE ALIVE TODAY HE'D TURN OVER IN HIS GRAVE … Apparently, nobody's doing much fact checking at the Old Grey Lady (The New York Times) any more. All those typos or mistakes in a 700-word career retrospective. (The Guardian)

3 ALL THE NEWS WE FIT TO PRINT … Well, you know how we ragged on here about Harper and Wafergate? Well, the Irving family owns the Telegraph Journal. And they also own major shipyards in Saint John. So, can one connect the dots between an announcement by the DND that we're buying a whole bunch of ships, to be built by Canadians (The Galloping Beaver) and the Telegraph Journal's grovelling backtracking of the story? (Telegraph Journal) I know, Warren Kinsella, (Warren Kinsella) trying to determine policy differences between the Cons and Iggy's Liberals is as hilariously exasperating as watching a Calgary Stampeder fan trying to determine his a$$ from a hole in the ground, but it's clear that Harper's attempt to shut up the remaining parts of the Canadian media who refuse to sing from the Conservative songbook is a bit more brazen than usual (A BCer in Toronto).

4 CHRIS GETZLAF? WHO? Fire the coach! Shoot the quarterback! Kill the cheerleaders! Burn down Taylor Field and sell the ashes to the Indians! Oh wait … (YouTube). I know you were to carry the pitchforks and I was to bring the torches, but we'll have to wait a week. (TSN).

5 MISS TEEN-AGE FREE LOVE '69 SHE AIN'T ... maybe 20 years from now somebody is going to think she's political material (Leader-Post) just like ... 0h, God, no ... (YouTube).

6 ANY WAY OUT OF HERE? Two more Canadian soldiers were killed in Afghanistan last weekend. (Globe and Mail) In lieu of any real ideas from anybody else about how we're going to get out of that mess, may I present to you the Round Mound of Sound (The Disaffected Liberal).

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