In lieu of a new post - a bitch from Atlas Hugged about the fact that I'm not posting.

Got this in my email today. Love this guy. And yes - it won't be long now. My bile is rebuilding and work is cooling off. :)

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Dear Mr. Pants:

As I sit here, in anguish, on yet another mindless conference call discussing the politics of climate change, and the poor decision making ability of those who have introduced yet another mindless form of carbon tax on manufacturers, I am dismayed – no angered – by the lack of new content on your site. Admittedly, I use you as a distraction as my colleagues in the industry mindlessly pontificate on the inside knowledge they profess to have. Like so many others, I know for a fact that the decision making chicken at the PMO doesn't cluck his insights to anyone before he clicks the panel for the seed.

While I generally disagree (out of habit, or out of my own self professed idiocy) with the content on your site, it has become habit forming – like the crack which is also bad for my intellect – and I mindless drift off to read it.

That said, you have an obligation to your loyal readers to continue to feed them the rich content they deserve. You cannot expect your followers to wait on your e-doorstep, hollowed by a lack of personal creativity, forced to seek out others to fill this void in their day, to continue to loyally read your tidbits, unless you actually give them something to read. Your little personal note that it is summer is of no value to those of us who don't work outside or play outside all the time – or to those of us who use their personal mobile devices to keep up with the things that they know and love. Unless this trend is immediately reversed, yours will fall out of this moderately selective category along with DEVO, Hillwatch, and Mr. Boisclair's Re-election site.

With mindless spite and vile, I wish you a good day.

Mr. Hugged.

Ok Ok some politics. Gives a whole new meaning to Dick Cheney.

This link to Wonkette is funny. It involves Cheney and the DC Madam hooker list. Enjoy.

 

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The Cicero In Pants Summer Vacation

Ive been quiet on this blog lately. Why? Well, first because work is busy and life gets fun in summer. But also largely because politics is boring the hell out of me lately.

Look. I know stuff is going on. We are all going to pillory the Defense Minister because of the Afghanistan Torture. There seems to be a race among all jurisdictions to pass the best global warming law conforming to the graph below,

and somebody knew somethin' and didnt tell somebody else in the air india disaster. And Andre "I really suck at this whole politics thing" Boisclair is leaving - shock of shocks.

But by and large, I'm still bored. And I never really want my blog to just be a "read the paper. Comment on the day" type thing. I generally try to speak up if I think I can say something that others arent quite saying (at least not in the way I would) and that cant happen when whats happening in the paper just feels like more of the same old same old. All of this is to say that






Cicero in Pants is Going in to Summer Vacation Mode!





Does this mean I won't write? No!!! It means Im going to loosen my politics and policy only rule. If Paul Wells can write about jazz and I dont care but read him, and Kinsella can write about punk and I dont care but read him, then the 30 or 40 kind souls who read my stuff every day can surely grant me some latitude. So stay tuned to hear me bitch about the transformers movie... or something. After all, I need to write. It is my hunger. ;-) I'll still write politics if something happens to turn my crank though. I promise. I'll even title it Politics: so you junkies can otherwise ignore me.

In the meantime here's some predictions to tide you over: the Tories will be in power for another year and will go to the polls after the next budget which will cut our taxes. At that point they will have closed the "loan as donation" loophole that makes the new election spending law a farce, but it won't matter because by then the liberals will have mastered the art of soliciting for small donations like the tories do (what did you think there was some kind of magic secret formula to it?) so Jason Cherniak can quit whining. And Al Gore won't announce he's running for president until after the summer. The Daily Show and Colbert are going to be less funny for a while because there isnt much to make fun of, and people will go to a lot of summer blockbuster movies and walk out saying that the script sucks!

Anyway - if you are reading this, get outside and drink some sangria on a patio. We live in Canada. You don't wanna be wasting days like this. Now shoo.

PS. Yes, Spider-man 3 was a great big jumbled clusterflick. I enjoyed it anyway. But only because I'd been warned that it was awful. And because Im the kind of guy who might just wear spider-man pajamas to the office if they let me. Just sayin'.

You guys will love this...

You guys will love this story. Americans file espionage report of "Spy Coin" with evesdropping device in it. 

 

Actual reason the coin looked odd: Canadian Commemorative Loony with the Red Poppy in the middle.

 

Go to BoingBoing.Net and check it out.  Oh, and while you are there feel free to spend two weeks looking at everything else that's there. Boingboing is quite possibly the best blog on the internet.

 

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