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It's no shame to admit that I am a bit of a blogwatcher. Of my Google Reader feed, three sites are webcomics (or comic commentary - a shout out to the Curmudgeon!), three sites are "humour", and four are in the miscellaneous bin: an Edmonton foodie blog, Seth Godin's marketing insights, a guy annotating the d...

Brands are updated all the time. Logos, taglines and visual identities are tweaked almost every time there is a new head honcho in the marketing department. Follow the McDonald's evolution over a few decades, or even Michael Jackson's. (Too soon?)

However, a complete renovation - a rebranding - happens only in the direst of days. When the associations of the current brand are so plagued with baggage or bereft of support, a rebranding is sometimes the only way to reboot the ...

Stephen Harper is a scrapper. The guy cut his teeth on the bloody fields of the Reform grassroots revolution and worked his way to power in the pugilistic role of underdog opposition within the sphere of the then all-powerful Liberals. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is the purest incarnation of partisan politics. The fact that he can't abandon the role to serve the larger benefit of the country should take no one by surprise.

The machine he has built is simply a purer refine...

Pump Up The Volume has arrived.

This 1990 classic starred Christian Slater and a then-unknown Samantha Mathis, as a pair of improbably elderly high school students engaged in ham radio anti-authoritarian hijinks. I loved it. Don't judge me. Slater broadcast sedition on the FM band to an increasing number of listeners...

I'll be posting the occasional link here, when someone else's opinion will express mine far better than I could. One of daveberta's posts was such a find. The former editor of Insight Into Government, Ric Vivone, is publishing a book of essays on Klein-era politics in Alberta. I am completely in agreement with Cournoyer that I can't wait for this book to hit the shelves!

I disco...

So I live in Alberta, which means that every once in a while some provincial-level politics are going to seep into this blog. Case in point: the Wildrose Alliance.

All of a sudden, the blogosphere is all abuzz about this fringe of rightist wackos who couldn't get enough face time among the PCs. (FYI: there are usually several "righter than PC" parties running in Alberta, and most get soundly trounced.) This one had a little...

OK - I can't vouch for veracity, but it's a nice meme. I've changed my Twitter status (@enThrall) and posted it to my followers (145!). Why not do the same?

Via @LeeDistad

David Rubenstein says:

If you're on Twitter, set your location to Tehran and your time zone to GMT +3.30. Iranian security forces are hunting for bloggers u...