Tuesday digest

- If there was ever any doubt that Bill Maher was an asshole of the highest order, it's been completely erased. Meanwhile, we have John Kerry insinuating that the troops in Iraq are pretty much there because they are too stupid to do anything else. Clearly, both of these guys have had better moments.

Here in the Great White North, it hasn't been a banner day for those on the right as Norman Spector exposes himself as a knuckle-dragger. Almost as bad is a Tory cabinet minister's suggestion that the state should have the final say on rates of pay in private workplaces in the name of "equality".

This is social engineering of the highest order - the type which we should expect from the likes of Olivia Chow, not so-called conservatives.

- And a big thumbs up today to the Royal Ottawa Foundation, which, by opening a new facility yesterday six weeks ahead of schedule, on budget and built entirely with private financing, has brought together two causes that are near and dear to my heart: mental health and fiscal sanity.