Michael Richards, the actor who delighted us as Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld, appeared at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles last Friday.  A heckler got under his skin and his retort was about as unfunny as you can get. Watch this and judge for yourself.  Not only is it not

I never heard the name Ron Porambo until today.  Porambo choked to death while eating an orange in New Jersey State Prison a couple of weeks ago.  This guy had the most intriguing life. He was serving 30 years to life for the 1983 murder of a drug dealer during

The Philadelphia Inquirer blog has a very interesting entry today regarding Bob Clarke.  I highly recommend reading The Bobby Clarke Era as it contains an insightful quote from some guy named Toronto Mike. City of brotherly love, welcome.

Transportation Minister Donna Cansfield yesterday introduced an amendment to the Ontario Highway Traffic Act that would require one seat belt for every person in a vehicle that travels on Ontario's roads. I've always thought that was the law.  I had no idea you could legally have more passengers in your

When I first heard about Cory Lidle's tragic accident yesterday afternoon, I had no idea it involved the former Blue Jays pitcher.  I knew it was a small aircraft and my thoughts immediately went back three days when I was in such a plane flying around Southern Ontario. Prior to

Here's the Google cache of Kimveer Gill's profile page at VampireFreaks.com.  Gill wore a black trench coat when he opened fire on students at Montreal's Dawson College yesterday.  Two are dead and nineteen are wounded, six critically. Going by the name fatality666, Gill's web page is quite revealing.  When

The Toronto Star introduced Star P.M. today.  To quote the Star P.M. page, it's "a free, downloadable afternoon daily newspaper in PDF format".  At 4:27pm I received an email from the Star letting me know today's issue was ready for downloading.  I decided to give Star P.

A woman in Hohhot, the capital of north China's Inner Mongolia region, crashed her car while giving her dog a driving lesson.  I couldn't make that kind of thing up, it's true. She was letting her damn dog steer while she worked the pedals.  Shockingly, she crashed.  Unfortunately, she survived,

Forget what you have learned.  Forget what they rammed down your throat in primary school about there being nine planets in our dinky little solar system.  Forget My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies.  You can replace that with My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nothing.  Pluto

I'd like to personally thank the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha for ruining my life.  Their study suggests hot dogs may contain DNA-mutating compounds that might boost one's risk for cancer. We're talking about Toronto's official food here.  Is it the objective of science to ruin everything that's

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has banned from carry-on luggage all "beverages, shampoo, sun tan lotion, creams, toothpaste, hair gel, and other items of similar consistency."  This is in response to the foiled plot to blow up planes with chemical bombs smuggled on board disguised as drinks.  The

I've always sort of liked Mel Gibson.  The Lethal Weapons were fun, Braveheart was fantastic and even movies like Ransom, Payback and Signs were pretty good.  Then, Mel went all Passion of the Christ on me and I crept away frightened and worried. On Friday, Gibson was arrested by Los

When I learned today Wiarton Willie had passed away I was a little sad, then I remembered Willie-gate.  Wiarton Willie had actually passed away in 1999, but when they rolled out poor Willie laid out in a coffin in his tuxedo, it wasn't him.  They actually tried to pass off

Nobody wants an Ipperwash sequel.  In 1995 Dudley George was shot dead during a standoff in Ipperwash, Ontario.  Today, a standoff between native protesters and police at a construction site in Caledonia, Ontario, continues and sympathy demonstrations are disrupting freight train and Via Rail service. The demonstrators are attempting to

H5N1, the form of the bird flu virus we've been shaking in our boots about for the past year, could appear here in North America within six to 12 months.  At least that's what Dr. David Nabarro believes, and he knows his stuff.  He's the United Nations' top avian flu

"Operation Slap Shot" isn't going away any time soon.  According to this article from The Star-Ledger out of New Jersey, wiretaps caught The Great Wayne Gretzky discussing the multimillion-dollar gambling operation run by his friend Rick Tocchet before the ring was dismantled Monday.  This contradicts what Gretzky told us Tuesday

Tucker Carlson is experiencing another bout of verbal diarrhea.  Only a year ago he ridiculed this fine nation in a typically immature fashion and just last week he made the following statements. Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York.

As if there isn't enough to worry about in this big bad world, the avian flu virus is making its way to North America.  We've been hearing about a global pandemic being an imminent happening, and this could be it.  With a whopping 50% mortality rate and no vaccine for

The Irish Republican Army announced earlier today it is renouncing violence as a political weapon and resuming disarmament in a dramatic declaration designed to revive Northern Ireland's peace process. Here's to a long deserved peace in the mother land.  The mills of God grind slowly but they grind finely.