According to this article, The 25 Most Influential Liberals In The U.S. Media – Forbes.com

“Broadly, a “liberal’ subscribes to some or all of the following: progressive income taxation; universal health care of some kind; opposition to the war in Iraq, and a certain queasiness about the war on terror; an instinctive preference for international diplomacy; the right to gay marriage; a woman’s right to an abortion; environmentalism in some Kyoto Protocol-friendly form; and a rejection of the McCain-Palin ticket.”

I think you would be hard pressed to find one Canadian who did not possess these qualities.

This will not go down well with the Tories. 🙂

…by coming out with two new dolls named after them. Sad. Apparently Michelle Obama is not happy about it. I wouldn’t blame her. I think it’s inappropriate and I would avoid buying toys from Ty unless I hear it’s been resolved.

As mobile phones combined with Internet services gain more and more capability, the era of ubiquitous computing will begin, whereby everyone in the world will be able to digitally interconnect. One more step along that path is occurring with the announcement of Google’s SMS Search in Ghana and Nigeria (as reported on the great blog, White African).

The device most of the world will connect to the Internet with will not be a Mac or an PC: it will be a low cost mobile phone/handheld device. Companies like Google will supply everything else. And it will happen very soon.

Over at TPMMuckraker, part of Talking Points Memo, they have John Thain’s Top Ten Greatest Moments. And by great, they mean just the opposite. There’s outrageous expenses, trashing of furniture, and those are the minor items. At best, you’ll be shaking your head. More likely you’ll be thinking: this guy ought to go to jail.