Alberta, Canada: 65,000,000 Years Ago

Stockwell Day's life has been made into a movie.  It can be found here.  They leave out that bit from Stock's childhood when he claims to have seen Jesus ride in on a Pachycephalosaurus.

Bye Bye Stock

We're all going to miss you.

Stockwell Day Taken In By Alien Ambassador Hoax

Speaking of Stockwell, his column from this morning concludes with:

A closing thought. The UN this week also named somebody to advise the world about talking to creatures from outer space when they arrive here.

Except they didn't: it was a hoax. UN representative Mazlan Othman, who was allegedly being lined up for the role of speaker-to-aliens, wrote in an email:

"It sounds really cool but I have to deny it," she said of the story. She will be attending a conference next week, but she'll be talking about how the world deals with "near-Earth objects".

As far as I know, Stockwell is the most prominent Western politician to have been taken in by the hoax.

Round To Stockwell?

Kady tweets.

And of course she's referencing to 2009 General Social Survey: Victimization, where it is written that:

For the eight crime types covered by the 2009 GSS on victimization, the proportion of incidents reported to the police by respondents fell from 34% in 2004 to 31% in 2009.

Except that, I think she's wrong about this being contrary to Stockwell, for if the proportion of incidents reported goes down, that means the number of unreported incidents goes up. Which is what Mr. Day seemed to be suggesting.

For an account of earlier rounds, read this. And, mind you, this still doesn't justify building more prisons as unreported crimes are by definition ones in which the criminal was not brought to justice.

Stockwell Day Brags about $40 Billion Deficit

...argues that freezing all conference travel, hospitality, and conference spending at 2009 levels will lead to "an eventual improvement in the economy".

You point a cluemeter at Stockwell, and it reads "0".

I Don't Know What This Is, But I LIke It

...and they link to me, so what the hell.