Wow, here we are. 600 posts into this little blog experiment thing. Happy New Year by the way. To make my job easier (and only slightly less accurate) I'm going to count the entire month of December when I do my usual calculations. It will introduce a day or so of inaccuracy, but there are worse fates in this world. For November, 33 posts in the 9 days since Post #500, for a post every 0.279 days (ie. every 6 hours, 41 minutes, 30.91 seconds). In December, as my easy math indicated, 31 days and 67 posts for a post every 0.463 days (ie. every 11 hours, 6 minutes, 16.12 seconds).
What happened over these 100 posts? Oh, just a little thing I like to call the one year anniversary of this blog. As usual, I'm providing you with a few highlights of the past 100 posts.
Best Reads:
- Alberta Politics
- Just before the first ballot of the PC Leadership race, I gave a post in support of Ted Morton. It contains to date the only discussion to take place in my comments section.
- I also put up a sticky post on the day of the first ballot.
- Playing around with morphing software, I show how you you too can turn Jim Dinning into Paul Martin, or Ed Stelmach into another famous wimp.
- Ed Stelmach gets another late endorsement from the world's most famous civil servant
- For the second leadership ballot, I made another sticky post
- I look at the leadership race and find some curious geographical results.
- When Premier Ed Stelmach created his cabinet, I was alone in the blogosphere in noticing that it was pretty leftist.
- In a two-part series, I do some serious analysis of what's wrong with the province. I cover both the liquor and the policing aspects of the job of the Solicitor General. You really should check on this one, its probably some of my most extensive political writings ever on this site.
- A recent exchange of letters in the Edmonton Journal contrasts very nicely with an opinion on where to spend this wasted arts money.
- Federal Politics
- Nationhood for Quebec? It's a dumb idea, but a benignly important one: an oxymoron I prove is the order du jour when dealing with Frogland.
- Speaking of Quebec, somebody posted to the Shotgun blog a list of famous Quebekers that only the French could be proud of
- Stephen Harper on Quebec seemed like a moment directly out of Yes, Minister
- I explain exactly what it would take to lay waste to all of Ontario with nuclear weapons. To date, nobody has explained a good reason not to do it.
- Colin James performed at the 2006 Liberal Leadership Convention. Hopefully he didn't play some of his earlier hits, because one of them doesn't mesh well with Liberal policies
- I drop out of the Liberal Leadership race, with exactly as much authority to do so as some of the actual candidates.
- Just over a year ago, a regressive American got excited about the city of Montreal. I contrast this with the Liberal leadership convenction.
- The RCMP revealed that they spied on Tommy Douglas. I have a unique take on the subject.
- I failed
CalgaryEdmontonGrit's 2006 political year in review test. But I failed it hilariously, which should be worth bonus marks.
- Sports
- I have a brief but attention-worthy analysis of the 2006 Grey Cup.
- I rundown the Chris Pronger situation on the day of the Oilers' first game against Anaheim this season. I also post a followup
- I am more than a little angry about a recent change in policy at MLB.tv
- In late December, the entire Northwestern Division of the NHL was tied for points. Twice. I post during the first occasion.
- I find a page posting the results of the Vote for Rory Campaign.
- Edmonton might get a new stadium. Pittsburgh might not get a new stadium. Should either of them get new stadiums? I address the question.
- Media and culture
- I have written episode reviews for several episodes of Day Break: specifically episodes 2, 3, and 4.
- I put my vote down for the day Dakota Fanning pulls a Paris Hilton/Britney Spears/Lindsay Lohan.
- I do a small discussion about Mel Gibson, his new film, Andy Dick, and Michael Richards. This new fad cannot go unnoticed.
- When Day Break went on unannounced hiatus, I was left to review Bones and Just a Kiss.
- Hot girls
- Two hot girls from a local Edmonton eatery with bonus breast footage.
- Girls from the 2006 Fringe Festival.
- I test out some eye candy graphics to use to advertise Third Edge of the Sword.
- Three girls from the great state of Virginia. I think.
- World Politics
- George Bush, September 11th, and Islam. These three things were key figures in the year 1911. Huh?
- As if to respond to an old blog post of mine, Mark Steyn brings up South Park while a reader brings up America at war.
- A third party candidate has been brought up for the 2008 American Presidential elections. Who he is, and who supports him, is a bit of a surprise.
- What's more vital to world affairs, hay bales in northern Alberta or the Pakistan-Afghanistan border where Osama lurks about? If you said the former, I have good news for you.
- I have two thoughts on the execution of Saddam. One is in-depth and well thought out. The other is just plain funny.
