Regular SDA reader (and he adds – frequent Weblog Awards vote caster) Gary Valcour is requesting your assistance in the final round of the National Post’s “Canada — in six words or less” contest.
It’s an entry worthy of SDA support, I do believe!

The National Post is having a contest – Canada in six words or less.

There’s a lot to like about our country, but thus far, the vast majority of entries have surprisingly been negative and, often, rather political. Judging by their suggestions, Jeff Spooner and Al Blow think that we’re a mediocre country, and proud of it: The former offered us “Canada: Birthplace of mediocrity” and the latter’s “Canada: Mediocre and reasonably proud of it” was a slightly more ironic variation on the same theme. Ori Rubin, who worked on the motto problem while raking leaves in the backyard with his dad, offered a similarly wry message: “Because the world needs more vanilla.”

h/t Darcey.

Lots more at the Monarchist for those of you who (like me) missed it. (link fixed)

Say what you will about the risks presented by Chinese imports – they still haven’t managed to top this.

“He rips the helmet off and AHHHH! that was a delivery right up the nostril express!“

(Calgary radio announcer calling the Allan Rourke vs Eric Nystrom fight during tonight’s Flames – Oilers game.)

Of Great Chief Warner Bros. (mp3)
Source: CKOM’s “Meeting Ground”

Story

Ouch.
h/t

How, exactly?

“Maybe it’s just me, but if you are putting things on the internet that demand the scrambling of people’s faces, maybe the problem is lack of judgment.”

You don’t say.

(h/t to Vitruvius in the comments)

Just to train the little buggers how to use a sidewalk.

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National Post;

Inmates in a Japanese jail found about 300 marijuana plants in the exercise yard, but instead of getting high, they reported the discovery to the authorities. […] Takashi Nomura, a prison guard, said inmates are allowed to cultivate vegetables and did not appear to have added marijuana. “We only grow potatoes and beans here,” he said. In physical checkups, prison officers found no sign any inmates had taken advantage of the wild marijuana.

Via reader Larry, who asks “perhaps we should do a prisoner exchange?”
I vote for a prison system exchange.

A gun control campaign I can endorse.

“China may be growing even faster than you previously thought.”

Let the debate begin. (Not here, but there, please).