Happy Monday! Tips open.

AIDS prevention research: A step forward for the “keep it in your pants” strategy.
“Yes, very much so – The Organisation of the Islamic Conference seems to imagine that self-esteem is a default entitlement and that “defamation” should also extend to matters of inconvenient fact; and thus believers – or rather Muslims – have some fictional right not to be criticised or mocked for publicly airing absurd and objectionable beliefs…”
This really shouldn’t need to be explained;

Scholar Kay Hymowitz […] turns the argument around and says it’s not that harsh economic conditions lead to women having children without fathers, but that the decision to have children without fathers leads to harsh, and self-perpetuating, economic conditions.

Yours in the comments.

Tips thread open.

A note to those of you who take the time to send me your links and your private comments – and who don’t get a response, or wonder why I don’t use them. It’s usually just a matter of available time, space, and energy. Sometimes the story has been covered in abundance elsewhere, (and sometimes I’ve already used it and you didn’t notice). But, I do want you all to know that your efforts are appreciated. I wish I had time to acknowledge everything sent my way, but I’d never get any work done – much less blogging!
Tips thread open.

Leaked! The CHRC response to motion on secret hearing.
More lawyery insight from “Canada’s leading legal expert on what David Dingwall takes in his coffee”.
“When human rights commissions are mocked on the CBC’s leading prime time show, you know the political environment has changed.”
Go east, young Lucy! Use your cream and tin foil as a springboard to greater anonymity!
Tips thread open.

Profile in Discourage.
Garth Turner exposes Liberal privates.
Blogging While Female, Pt. II
Yours in the comments.

Tips thread open.

Open for Monday.

Tips thread open.

Tips thread open.

I’ve a busy 2 days ahead, including a road trip. Activity will be very slow here until Sunday, unless one of our guest bloggers has something they’d like to contribute.
Your tips in the comments, as usual.

Speaking truth to the power of identity politics.
Spitzer and the media: How it might have been.
(As an aside, I’ve been listening to a certain 650CKOM newscaster for two days on this story, and am still waiting to hear the word “Democratic”.)
Surely, this cannot be the work of one, lone idiot.
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“The “Cadscam” House party may yet get a second wind whether it is the business of Parliament or not.”
There is no joy in Dionville tonight. “It seems I’m not alone in feeling like I’ve been watching a highway accident unfold in slow motion.”
The coming equalization clash.
What US recession?
And I’m still completely, miserably sick, so I’m off to soak in neocitron.

Still sick.
Tips in the comments.

Tips open.

Still at the dog show, and to complicate matters, I’m getting sick. So, three quick links. Check them all out…
More pavilions at Folkfest!
A very interesting email exchange…
David Akin’s in hot water.
Yours in the comments.

Another dog show weekend, so things will slow down here for the remainder of the weekend. Drop your own tips in the comments, and surf the blogroll, if you’re bored … or snowbound….

A hard-core green ‘n whiter weighs in on the KJtrade.
“My Faith in American Justice” – Conrad Black in the NY Sun.
Y2Kyoto: Chill me Kangaroo down, sport.‘
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Chapter XIV if the Censurous Exploits of Richard Warman.
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Going where no calculator has gone before – correcting the Globe and Mail’s math.
Inspired by Hamas, Reuters best headline ever.
Remember – it’s not anti-Semitic to criticize Israel.
C-10, censorship, Liberal outrage and double standards.
Oh, and by the way? Removing government funding for “provocative” films is not “censorship”. It’s called “grow up and make movies people will pay money to see.”
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Open for Wednesday.