Maybe capital punishment isn't such a bad thing...

Okay... so I don't REALLY mean that ... but on Dec 26'th, a few
cowardly gangs squared off in the downtown core of Toronto... 7
innocent bystanders were shot ... one is still in critical condition,
and another bright, beautiful 15 year-old is dead.

... and despite the relative barbarism of capital punishment, I can
think of nothing better than to string up each of these gang members
by assorted limbs, and have them painfully and publicly executed. To
think that a bunch of illiterate low-lifes could take away the bright
future of an innocent young girl, just out shopping with her
family... I hope when they're finally captured these guys get 'play
time' in the yard with the other inmates.

We have a military... you don't!

An open memo to Giles Duceppes (yes, I watched a chunk of the debate tonight... I know, should be at a party or something:

Want to know what prevents the rest of the country from letting Quebec violate international law, use a fuzzy question and simple majority to unilaterally declare soverignty? *Canada* has a military... Quebec does not.

Le sigh. I love Quebec... I love (with a minor exception or two) Montreal... I know that "My Canada includes Quebec" sounds inconceivably trite, but there you go... As Canada (and the rest of the western world) needs to start moving more quickly to build a kick-ass education system to build the knowledge infrastructure it needs to be competitive in the future, isn't this something we'd be far more successful at as a single country?

As with most political decisions it seems like Canadians are again faced with voting for the (perceived) lesser of all evils, but to all those thinking about voting PQ... Can't we accomplish more together?

Fantastic Fortune article on Andy Grove

Grove's just one of those people that for a whole host of reason I
think everyone probably looks up to... I know I certainly do.

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/print/0,15935,1134617,00.html

From Harvard Business Review Weekly Knowledge