Rosie's Surprise Top Six

1 THE DEFINITION OF IRONY a comic book ilustrator and writer in the U.S. was detained for comics he had drawn and narrated .. about a comic book writer under suspicion at a time when the United States was becoming a police state. (Boing Boing)

2 DEADLY SURPRISE Guess what? Canada now supports the death penalty! No, I didn't know that either. (Impolitical)

3 SHORTER JEFFREY SIMPSON Given that Stephen Harper still gets his way with the Liberal Party, it's time to start wondering when the Dion-ification of Iggy will end, if it ever will. (Globe and Mail)

4 BRAIN DEAD Kate McMillian's smalldeadanimals blog is used as a wellspring of information for John Gormly's lazy producers and right-wing nutjobs who are incapable of thinking for themselves. Ottawa Watch, in examples here and here, illustrates why we should live in fear of the people who read her blog and take her seriously--and who live amongst us. (Ottawa Watch)

5 PHASE ONE: COLLECT UNDERPANTS The Jurist is a blogger who, when the big whistle blows, will support whatever the NDP does, whether it's defending medicare or electing Dwain Lingenfelter, Saskatchewan's version of Micheal Ignatieff, as its leader. But that doesn't mean his analysis of Enterprise Saskatchewan's Underpants Gnome School of Finance isn't credible. In fact, it just may be the best thing ever written about this program which is looking more and more like a boondoggle every day. (Accidental Deliberations)

6 A PERSONAL NOTE On Sunday I bought a pack of four iTunes cards from Costco. Apples on-line iTunes store will not let me redeem two of them. E-mails to Apple's customer service have gotten me exactly nowhere. Yeah, I'm mad.