Doug's Dynamic Drivel

29 years ago today Saigon surrendered to the Vietcong an inevitable result of US political interference, turned miltary interference, in a foreign country. Today the US troops started to pull out of Fallujah turning control of the city over to several of Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard generals (you know – those nasty, empire of evil, [...]

For all the cube rats and former cube rats in the audience I profer this list of quotes from real-life Dilbert-type managers. Via Clyde via Car Talk “As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday and employees will receive their cards [...]

For the last 4 months there has been a very interesting political experiment going on here in British Columbia. BC has long had a first past the post electoral system and that’s a system rife with deficiencies. In “first past the post” the candidate who gets the most votes in a riding gets to represent [...]

A man who reeked of alcohol flopped on a subway seat next to a priest. The man’s tie was stained, his face was plastered with red lipstick, and a half empty bottle of rum was sticking out of his ripped jacket pocket. He noisily opened his newspaper and started reading. After a few minutes, the [...]

Let me see if I have this right. Leaving aside the whole WMD farce we are being told that the “real” reason for invading Iraq was to get rid of an evil dictator and his evil regime. You know that regime that was responsible for the death of tens of thousands of Iraqi’s every year [...]