Freedom is not free, if invading a south-east Asian country is a condition of said freedom.

Called in to 91.7 the Bounce today, local hip-hoppery station in Edmonton. Deejays couldn't work out how to text someone the word "tütz", as in, the first syllable of "tootsie". I suggested the preceding spelling, which they rejected due to the umlaut. We can only await the appearance of accents on all mobiles, not just the nice ones.

The Germans nowadays have many virtues to share with the world. Unfortunately, like Pavlov's Dog, one only has to say the word "German" for some to bark, "Nazi!".

Front plate

Mainstream Edmonton idolizes the military -- in comparison to my hometown of Vancouver, which usually prefers to vandalize it. The patriotism here inspired this design.

Matt Hughes

9 time welterweight champion

Jewish history

Tired of rough treatment at the hands of the inappropriately named 'Gentiles', thousands of European Jews would migrate to Israel beginning in the late 19th Century in a movement known as Zionism. Prominent Zionists such as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (pictured), and others decided that the new Jewish homeland would speak Hebrew as an official language, in spite of the fact that it had spent nearly two thousand years as a dead tongue. They needed only thirty years to establish and disseminate Hebrew, in a triumph for erudition and literacy.

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Matt Hughes brings his family and Chuck Liddell to Disneyland