Murray Wood's Blog

Now is when real Roughrider fans are counted. The giddiness of having won the Grey Cup and something like 13 of their last 14 games, infected a lot of folks who wouldn't normally consider a watermelon as a choice of chapeau.

Am I the only one who finds it ironic that the anti-government, fiercely pro-business, survival of the fittest capitalists of Wall Street are now lining up to be the world's biggest corporate welfare bums?

And that the anti-regulatory, 'get government off the backs of business' political dimwits who fostered a culture that allowed the credit crisis to develop are the same ones offering what is effectively a socialist solution? The U.S. government has been taking over some of the biggest financial institutions and is offering to take equity in some others.

So, there was no wrongdoing in the David Milgaard case, although the Commission of Inquiry does find the justice system failed him.

No wrongdoing. No one did anything wrong, it was just a series of incredibly unfortunate events, mistakes if you will. One after another, after another after another…. But no one ever, as far as can be determined to a judge’s satisfaction, ever did anything that purposely amounted to screwing David Milgaard over.

Have you ever seen anything this funny? 

Animal rights activists in Britain stepped in to save Buffy the chicken after she lost her feathers.  One version is that the other chickens were pecking her.  They took her back to the animal rescue centre, where a volunteer knitted her a 'jumper' and she's now toasty warm and enjoying life; as much as chickens are capable of sentient thought.

Enjoy Buffy....the Colonel is waiting. 

So, because I was on the west side of Taylor Field, I really wasn’t aware Saturday night what all the fuss was about. Over on the rowdy east side, some so called 'fans' embarrassed the Rider nation with boorish beer throwing.