Thursday digest

- I am willing to bet anyone right now that the bureaucrat who decided that the Jays commercial featuring Frank Thomas promotes child abuse is a regular donor to the NDP.

- A day care in east-end Montreal is refusing to leave pork off a Muslim kid's lunch plate. I'm all for assimilation, but in this case, I think the issue has more to do with the day care being run by a blueneck who, like a disproportionate number of Quebecois, don't really care for people who don't look and/or speak the same way they do.

- Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty says that corner store owners can't be trusted to sell beer and wine after the recent lottery scandal - but supposedly smokes, a cornerstone of both the underground economy and organized crime, don't pose a problem for McGuinty? Admit it, Dalton - you need the revenue that the government-owned liquor stores in Ontario bring in, that's all.

- Damn that Mahmoud Ahmedinejad for screwing up the latest O'Donnell conspiracy theory.

- More on the ideological constraints of the modern university, here.