We call him “Clifford Olson” and he’s wonderful with children;

Not one dog bite in Canada has been attributed to a Staffordshire bull terrier in the history of the breed, said Barkey, a leading advocate for rescinding the law as written. She breeds the dog in Quinon, Que., and in several countries outside Canada.
“I’m the only one here today,” she said of the dog’s breeders and competitors.
Because of the Ontario ban, the breed is in decline in Canada, she said. She named the 15-month-old dog “Che,” she said, to give the breed a freedom fighter.

I recall a Saskatchewan event a number of years ago which involved a canoe race. The teams in the race decided to all finish the race together … so the fastest canoe held up to let all the rest catch up, and they finished the race all in first place.
… or was it all in last place?
Such is the mentality of the new Europe:

Germany’s trade surpluses built on holding down labor costs may be unsustainable for the other countries in the eurozone, France’s finance minister said in an unusually blunt warning to Berlin.
Christine Lagarde said Berlin should consider boosting domestic demand to help deficit countries regain competitiveness and sort out their public finances.
Her comments break a long-standing taboo between the French and German governments about macroeconomic imbalances inside the 16-country bloc which have been dramatically exposed by the Greek debt crisis.
“[Could] those with surpluses do a little something? It takes two to tango,” she said in an interview with the Financial Times. “It cannot just be about enforcing deficit principles.”
“Clearly Germany has done an awfully good job in the last 10 years or so, improving competitiveness, putting very high pressure on its labor costs. When you look at unit labor costs to Germany, they have done a tremendous job in that respect. I’m not sure it is a sustainable model for the long term and for the whole of the group. Clearly we need better convergence.”

You’ve got to wonder sometimes if this whole “human rights” thing hasn’t gone too far:

A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign Friday against demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard care.

The union, NU’91, is calling the campaign “I Draw The Line Here,” with an advert that features a young woman covering her face with crossed hands.

A more effective advert would show a trio of brawny Dutch-Calvinist nurses advancing with a pillow…