Six In The Morning

1 REMEMBER THAT E.I. REFORM WE WERE SUPPOSED TO GET THIS SUMMER? The Conservatives, under the threat of a non-confidence vote, finally table Employment Insurance changes (Globe And Mail). This is the program, you may recall, that the Liberals gutted the hell out of in the 1990s.

2 NOT THAT IT MATTERS Because the Tories are positioned for a non-confidence vote this Friday. (Canada.com)

3 HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which makes an adequate symbolic date to mark global capitalism's self-inflicted financial crisis. In New York, Obama makes a speech to remind everyone how he's basically doing fuck-all on this file, and how the banks are still insanely under-regulated. Probably because he' been too busy doing close to fuck-all on health care. (New York Times)

4 TOE REMOVAL I can't find a link to this story yet, but unless I was having a fever dream I'm sure I heard CBC's Brett Bradshaw this morning reporting on some poor woman who had a toe pulled off because she owed a drug debt. What the hell? I'll post a link when I find it. UPDATE: link here (CBC).

5 KISS TO SMOOCH SASKATOON I know this because the story is prominent on the front page onf the online Leader-Post. It is NOT prominent on the front page of the online Star-Phoenix--at least, not at the moment. Anyway, KISS--listened toteh album Dynasty Saturday night. Not a bad record actually. Disco-y!

6 RIDERS ANNIHILATE, EVISCERATE, DISCOMBOBULATE, EXSANGUINATE BOMBERS Ha ha haaa Winnipeg sure sucks. You already new this but you wanted to be reminded, admit it. Well, here's how they feel in Winnipeg: "doo-dee DOO-dah doo-dah doo-dah dummm". Tooo funny. (Winnipeg Free Press)