Monday digest

- The union boss at a strike-ridden Ontario tire factory that recently closed is complaining that parent company Michelin North America wants to reduce the influence of unions as the company expands at non-union plants in Nova Scotia.

Well, duh.

You know comes to mind right now when I listen to that hack, who let down 1,000 men and women, whine about the consequences of refusing to budge from his hard line? Simply, this:

"You stupid fuck. Look at you now." (Audio here.)

- Speaking of the F bomb, Hitchens stooped to their level and dropped it on the simpletons in Bill Maher's audience the other night.

Hey ... sometimes you're just too smart for the room.

- On the UN front, Kofi Annan makes it clear that blue helmets are going to turn a blind eye to Syria supplying Hezbollah here, while prodding the terrorists to give up the Israeli soldiers.

Isn't he about six weeks late on that one?

- As The Economist asks "who killed the newspaper", a look at how the mainstream media fell for Hezbollah's propaganda tactics hook, line and sinker during the recent fighting in the Middle East.

- Looks like Colin Powell's golden boy was the one who named Plame. So much for everyone who was hoping that Dick "Big Time" Cheney was going to wear this one.