Quirky Canada

Couple of interesting bits of information for you from Canada.

I picked up in the ever reliable British Columbia Globe and Mail the story of a 74 year old man sent to jail for 30 months for stealing books from over 100 libraries in Alberta and the US.

Also in case you are considering a career in politics there was also a story about the things you are not allowed to call your colleagues in the Canadian Parliament - these include bag of wind, blatherskite, fuddle duddle, sleazebag (so no Paul Keating), scuzzball and weathervane - so how are you supposed to have fun?

And speaking of politics - this quote from Karl Rove when he was trying really hard not to be too critical of John McCain, who had been caught lying in an advert - "McCain has gone in some of his ads...one step too far by sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100 percent truth test". Now that is hard hitting journalism.

Bye for now.