Friday digest

- Last night, the lead story on O'Reilly was Kansas City Star columnist Jason Whitlock who was discussing the Michael Vick dogfighting scandal. Whitlock suggested that Vick's participation in dogfighting is linked to a "hip-hop/prison culture" that is glorified by many black athletes.

I have to mention that while everyone seems to have their knickers in a knot over cruelty towards Dobermans and pit bulls, discussing cruelty towards, say, a fetus, remains completely off the table and considered the epitome of extremism.

Is a little proportionality too much to ask for?

- I love it: David Miller, socalist mayor of Toronto, and councillor/Toronto Transit Commission chairman Adam Giambrone (who also happens to be a former national president of the New Democratic Party) are mad because their tax hike got rejected by council, so instead of reining in the public sector unions or reforming in other areas, they're threatening to wreak havoc on bus and subway service across the GTA, protecting their buddies in CUPE and OPSEU from tough medicine at the expense of seniors, students and those who can't afford private transportation.

So much for looking out for the poor and vulnerable.

- If you really, really are concerned about global warming, the best thing to do is to go vegetarian.

Oh? What's that, you say? Something about "a sacrifice you're not willing to make"?

I suppose you'll be hanging on to that propane-powered barbecue as well, then.

- Want an example of how to be against the war in Iraq but still in support of the troops? Look no further than the one and only Mr. Toby Keith.

- And a new global survey shows that whoever said money doesn't buy happiness, was, well, pretty much wrong.