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Passionate Eye: The World According To Bush
Fifth Estate: The Unauthorized Biography of Dick Cheney

It makes me want to pry the 6 off my TV remote control.

ABC News says the Bush campaign’s new Wolves spot was produced some time ago, but they saved it for the final stretch and will now air it in 14 states until election day.

Harry Shearer collects video from raw feeds, and among his finds is this clip of John Edwards. They longer you watch, the funiier it gets.

A private group is spending $14-million to show this ad over the final two weeks in the battleground states.

Andrew Coyne has some complaints about who made the CBC’s Greatest Canadian list, and who didn’t.

That’s the way history is taught in Canadian schools: no heroism, only survival. When our history is presented to us as people wearing itchy woollen pants living in sod houses, how do you pick a winner?

Colby Cosh suggests we vote for Don Cherry, if for no other reason than Garth Woolsley and the Toronto Star don’t want us to.

UPDATE: My hometown paper says that Cherry is a racist.

They [Americans] know not only about the wars in which they fought, but who the generals were, where the battles were staged, and how they came to win. It’s history written in a jingoistic American tone, but you can be sure Americans wouldn’t be nominating a racist television personality in their top 10 greatest category.