Thursday digest

- Anyone have any suggestions on side dishes that go well with crow?

- Get cheated on and having a hard time getting over it? Don't worry. The Canadian court system feels your pain and will ensure you're taken care of.

So much for the state having no place in the motel rooms of the nation. No doubt, all of the civil libertarians and their feminist friends who are always saying that the government has no right to comment on issues concerning morality are going to be up in arms about this one.

Right.

- A plea from Oz, asking us to really start telling it like it is.

- Last night on the National, the CBC's Peter Mansbridge referred to terrorism suspect and security certificate detainee Mohammed Harkat, who is now out on bail with strict conditions, as a "Canadian man". Correction: he is not Canadian. No one who is held on a security certificate holds Canadian citizenship, nor can they be by law.

- Shame on congressional Republicans for selling out their small-government principles. At least some in DC are calling for restraint.

- Why the decades-long eluctance to cut off funding to terror-sponsoring Gulf states by increasing energy self-sufficiency? Rule of thumb to those would would make life less profitabe for domestic oil producers: if you tax something, you get less of it; if you subsidize something, you get more of it. And with sales of SUVs still climbing, do we really want a significant percentage of our spending on gasoline to continually find its way into Saudi hands?