Thursday digest

- I mosied on down to the Sens Rally today held at Ottawa City Hall where a plethora of Bytown royalty was present, including Lucky Ron and the Garlic King, along with thousands upon thousands of office workers who came out to cheer on the Eastern Conference champions. I signed the banner that was provided to wish the Sens luck, writing "thanks for bringing the Cup finals to Ontario for the first time in 40 years" and thinking that this must be what it's like on Yonge Street after the Leafs win Game 1 or 3 or whatever of the first round of the playoffs.

- Speaking of town council, they have thankfully shelved the ridiculous idea to ban trans fats from the city's restaurants, and have also repealed the bylaw against playing road hockey in the nation's capital. Both laws met their demise despite the efforts of socialist councillor Alex Cullen.

Your tax dollars at work, folks.

- Within the ranks of the "artistes" at the recent Cannes film festival, we have a documentarist who decided to tell the harrowing tale of a man who died from a perforated colon after stress from George Bush's war on terror drove him to the barnyard in search of relief.

You have to read this for yourself. And I thought that Sean Penn blaming W. for not being able to quit smoking was ridiculous.

- Three candidates for the Democratic nomination are on tap to speak to the upcoming Daily Kos conference in Chicago. This is the website that led the drive to kick Joe Lieberman out of his party.

I hope Hillary Clinton knows well enough to be busy that weekend.

- Investor's Business Daily is running a 10-part series on the worst President in US history titled "Profiles in Incompetence". Here are parts one through three.

- Here's a handy-dandy guide to torture brought to you by ... the US Forces, Gitmo Station?

Try again.