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I caught a bit of the interview, and thought that Layton fumbled bigtime on a question (asked by a high-school social studies class) about his flip-flop on whether the Green Party should be included in the leaders' debate. I was hoping he'd say something like, "Well, at the time, May was endorsing Dion, and I felt that including her wouldn't add much to the debate. But since a large number of Canadians want her in the debate, I'll go along with that." He didn't. He made some remarks about wanting to debate Harper, but didn't say anything about his change of stance, and how his previous opposition to her inclusion was at odds with inclusive politics. :thumbdown: Aloha, Brad

Have you considered trying to get pictures, too? http://www.mr-lee-catcam.de/cc_index_en.htm Aloha, Brad

A recording of me playing guitar in the basement earlier in the evening. Aloha, Brad

Night-by-night reviews: http://www.phish.net/reviews/shows/02-19-93.html http://www.phish.net/reviews/shows/02-20-93.html http://www.phish.net/reviews/shows/02-21-93.html Aloha, Brad

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080917/canada/canada_vote_narcotics_law Aloha, Brad

There was one near where I grew up (we lived out near the end of St. Clair Ave. E. in Scarborough, and there was a Mother's at the corner of Brimley Rd. and Eglinton Ave. E.), and it was a mainstay of restaurant meals (of which there weren't many) for my family. It started to go downhill, though (wasn't being cleaned properly, the food got worse, etc.), and ultimately closed (around 1990, maybe?). Aloha, Brad

I don't think that was the (full-band) Sex Pistols; wasn't it just Sid Vicious? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Vicious#Singles Aloha, Brad

Q: What band name did Led Zeppelin use for their first tour? A: The New Yardbirds Aloha, Brad

Agreed. I liked the show last season, and have also liked the first couple of episodes this season. Aloha, Brad

I'm looking forward to the debates (usually shown on the Rogers Community channel here in Ottawa) between each riding's candidates. Those are the ones where you see the truly off-the-beaten-path candidates and parties come out of the woodwork. Aloha, Brad

I'd need to see film of both of them walking while drunk to be sure. Aloha, Brad

http://www.phillymag.com/arts_entertainment/articles/whats_what_with_lynda_carter/ Aloha, Brad

But not this way. Aloha, Brad

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No sake? Aloha, Brad

Landsdowne Park has Frank Clair Stadium and the Civic Centre Arena side-by-side' date=' doesn't it?[/quote'] D'oh. You're right, it does. Aloha, Brad

I don't think I've ever seen or heard of a city having both an indoor arena and an outdoor stadium side-by-side (except for maybe Olympic villages). Leaving aside how inconvenient it'd be to have the complex in the West end, are there any advantages to having them next to each other? Aloha, Brad

Thanks, Jaimoe. They're playing at The Rainbow in Ottawa on Friday, Oct. 17 (with The Coggs). I'll give them a listen and consider checking out their show. Aloha, Brad

Most of the times I've been there, there's been a line-up for take-out*, but if you wanted to sit down at a table, you got in right away. (And when I've eaten inside, it wasn't too bad, but you have to dig the old-school decor and "feel" to the place, as well as be comfortable sharing a table.) Aloha, Brad * One Saturday evening I was there, a guy in front of me in the line was ordering six pounds of smoked meat, sliced, along with a couple of loaves of bread. Needless to say, his order took a while.

Today the part of bradm will be played by Freak By Night. Aloha, Brad

I hate [color:green]envy you. I heard about a place called "The Main", which is right across St. Laurent from Schwartz's, and which apparently has smoked meat that's almost as good, but which usually isn't nearly as crowded as Schwartz's. Does anybody know it, or has anybody tried it? Aloha, Brad

Yes, it was; I think I know what you're getting at. Maybe, but I think a better approach would be to base a course (or a set of courses) around the history of "discovering how the world works," using, for example, some of the stuff James Burke has done, especially his first Connections series, and also his The Day the Universe Changed. If such a course was augmented with other things (like lab work, or even social and economic studies), it'd work even better, I think. Aloha, Brad

How is the Liberal candidate in your riding? Aloha, Brad

I think the problem is that the two sensibilities (let's call them science and religion) have a fundamental incompatibility: science is based on objective demonstrable observations of the real world, while religion is based on "what's in the book", fixed for all time. There are those who look at science (or, more particularly, a particular scientific theory/model) and say, "See? That theory was discarded by scientists. Therefore science doesn't fully explain the world." But, again, this shows the key difference between science and religion: the scientific process has built-in mechanisms to alter (or replace) a theory when it's shown, objectively and quantitatively, not to match observations in the real world; religion lacks these mechanisms. (Thus there's a difference between the scientific process [which is a better term than just science, IMO] and a particular scientific theory. This or that theory can easily be supplanted by something better [e.g., Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which gives more accurate predictions of what goes on in the real world than, say, Newton's Theory of Gravity], but that's the nature of the scientific process.) There are those who believe that because science doesn't deal with "life energy", or "god" (note the lower case 'g'), or similar things (most of which are undefined terms, even by those who use them), it then denies their existence. It does no such thing; it just leaves them out*, which it should, because those things (largely due to their undefinied nature) are inherently unobservable, and unquantifiable. I have no problem with various opinions being discussed (or taught) in a course dedicated to them, but they need to be kept out of a science class. Aloha, Brad * Also note that another characteristic of scientific theories is that each one inherently includes a clear definition of its scope, i.e., the things and phenomena (and range of things and phenomena) with which it deals. A lot (not all, certainly) of religions claim to cover everything, which no scientific theory does.

Minor semi-colon-oscopular typo alert: that URL should be http://www.nufunk.ca Aloha, Brad