i don't trust Putin's taking to skating

so is anyone else having reservations about Sochi 2014? I don't mean to cast prejudgment or be entirely paranoid but how can we be so sure that Putin won't make the entire Western world feel the wrath of his discontent over the Men's Figure skating results?

Hands-down, Johnny Weir trumped the others artistically and remained in sixth so those in the apoplectic Plushenko camp landed on a moot point. That evil Lysacek exuded Darth Vaderness with every flick of his black feathered wrist but the man can jump so begrudgingly we accept his win. Honestly though, fingers-crossed Canada starts schmoozing with the Russian Mafia (Putin included) and reading up on Kremlinology so's not to be on the short end of the stick for those events requiring human measurement.

The hangover is wearing off and revealing a new-found nationalism and (hopefully) a banishment of contagious apathy.  In keeping with jingoism, here's the first installment of a ten-part series investigating Harper's Assault on Democracy.
An illustration: On a recent trans-Atlantic flight I had the pleasure of sitting beside a Victoria-based researcher who was on the advisory panel for Climate Change and talked of how Canadian scientists were being silenced through severe funding cuts and other Draconian measures by the Conservatives. Unequivocally, all evidence points towards anthropogenic climate change yet Canadian researchers were told not to divulge information in the same manner the Bush government muzzled academics.

Now national pride is back- there is the demand to get back to business and back to work, Parliament. Please. Gold-medallists Virtue and Moir got it right when they denied Harper's invitation. RSVP: Not Attending to that sad bitter bitter man's pity party- beseech thee accountability.

Further non-Olympic news: I've discovered my technologicology idol: Gale Beggy.

Gale Beggy iPhone Commercial - Watch more Videos at Vodpod.

Did she say mace? If there truly was an app for that then I'd trade in my good ol' Motorolster. That and tentacles would be useful for Manc.