Quick Update

We're into the busy time now, as term is lurking right around the corner, so Friday Archaeology Blogging will be along at some point this weekend. In the meantime, here are a couple of notes:

• We have a lovely right-up over at Harper Valley, on account of having won Round 5 of Scout's "Famous Stupid People" contest! Many thanks to Scout, and if you're not familiar with Harper Valley, you should be!
  
  
• On a less happy note, I e-mailed Mark Bonokoski about the homeless man's dog being stolen, and he e-mailed me back to let me know that Trouble had still not been restored to its rightful owner. Not good.
  

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

Rogue animal activists stole Mike Costello's dog
By MARK BONOKOSKI

Detectives in 14 Division have launched a police investigation into a rogue animal rights group that stole a homeless man's dog and then wrote an anonymous and caustically worded letter bragging about its exploits.

The article's fairly depressing. What these idiots have essentially managed to do, in one fell swoop, is to do absolutely nothing, and I mean zero, for the protection of animals, to deal a nasty PR blow to legitimate animal-rights and animal protection groups (most of whom are working hard to get the guy's dog back for him), and to further fuck up the life of a completely innocent person who has enough worries as it is. Well done, assholes.

So What Did We Miss?

As is usual for the weeks when I'm too busy to do much blogging, this past one was eventful. Let's see:

• Ralph Klein announced that, instead of hanging around clinging to power like a particularly clingy leech, he's going to resign. In a few months. You know, after he does some more powery sort of stuff.
  
  
• Preston Manning apparently wants Klein's job, and rather surprisingly, is early leader in polls taken this week. Oi! Thump! remains skeptical; for one thing, the polls only show that Manning would win the first ballot, so a lot would depend on who a lot of the delegates' second choice is.
  
  
• The explosion at the Toronto Tim Horton's was apparently a suicide.
  
  
• The baseball season began. This is good.
  

Blow Up The Rim

Yes, tasteless, I know, I'm sorry...

Blast at Toronto doughnut shop kills man
Last Updated Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:44:08 EDT
CBC News
A man died in an explosion at a Tim Hortons outlet in downtown Toronto on Sunday, police say.

Later in the afternoon, a police robot was used to remove a parcel from the store, which is on Yonge Street just north of the intersection with Bloor Street. Explosives experts then detonated the package.

Well, this is interesting. Accident? Organized Crime? Terrorism? Everybody's being fairly cagey on the details right now, and to be honest they may not be much known for certain yet. What develops out of this bears keeping an eye on...