So last week I had a great offer to test drive a 2012 Ford Focus. Here are my thoughts. Design means something at Ford again. It’s just not the exterior, it’s everything. I was watching a CNBC program on Ford a couple of years ago and the engineer was talking about how important it was [...]
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In praise of high priced consultants
Dan Gardner writes in the Ottawa Citizen. Remember the story of David Rotor and Douglas Tipple? As Stephen Maher recalled recently on these pages, they were the two experts on procurement hired by the Martin Liberals – at a cost of $330,000 a year each – to find savings in the federal government’s procurement process. [...]
Happy Canada Day
To celebrate I’ll quote Malcolm Gladwell talking about what he learned about the United States. In history class, in seventh grade (or as we like to say in Canada, grade seven) we learned the story of the American Revolution — from the British perspective. Turns out you were all a bunch of ungrateful tax cheats. [...]
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I love this man shed of Seattle architect Dave Edwards. 23 windows and a 18 foot tower. What a great workspace. Remember when we lectured China on good fiscal practices? Lessons the teacher forgot The downfall of the greatest quarterback who never was :: Someone could seriously start a Todd Marinovich blog chronicling the stories [...]
The Dying Last Gasp
Iggy has a good post on Tony Jone’s recent comments about gay marriage and relationships in the church and what that doesn’t mean for the emerging church. I would expand on his post a bit and continue to beat the drum that the emerging church is a whole lot larger than Tony’s statements (or Brian’s [...]
4-0
The Saskatchewan Roughriders are 4-0 with a comeback victory over Montreal. Not only that but it is the second win in a row by our third string QB. Apparently Eric Tillman knows a little bit about evaluating quarterbacks and hiring head coaches. His trade of Kerry Joseph doesn’t look so bad now. Speaking of Kerry [...]
