I just noticed my watch is in almost perfect sync with the National Research Council time signal.

Pat Quinn is no longer the Toronto Maple Leafs' coach.

To that, I say "good." When you have a crappy season like the Leafs just did, somebody has to pay.

I don't think he's a good coach for the new NHL (although arguments could be made about whether John Ferguson is a good GM for the new NHL, or Richard Peddie is a good MLSE exec for the new NHL).

Clearly something has to change in Leafs Nation, and since the first puck was dropped, tradition holds that it's the coach who goes first.

Hopefully the Leafs bring in someone who understands modern hockey and who likes younger players.

CBC editorial supremo Tony Burman offers a conventional opinion on the new world of media.

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Filmmaker David Zeiger has made a doc looking back at the dissent movement within the U.S. armed forces of the 1960s and 1970s.

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This NYT article might help (unkind people might say that's why they visit this blog. :) )

OTOH, no late-night booze or caffeine? What kind of advice is that?!?! :)

Journalist Robert Scheer lays out how he thinks Dubya has boxed himself in when it comes to dealing with Iran by his bad calls on Iraq and Pakistan.

His conclusion:

There you have it - Hussein, who did not have a nuclear-weapons program and was fundamentally at odds with Bin Laden, now sits in prison, while the dictator of nukes-'R'-us Pakistan and the theocrats of Iran have had their power immeasurably strengthened by Bush's policies. Go figure. Actually, it would appear the public already has, which explains why our fearless leader has fallen so far in the polls.

Full story at the San Francisco Chronicle or at truthout.

Press Secretary Scott McLellan leaves to pursue other ventures and resident psychopath Karl Rove gets bumped from planning a New Conservative Order to focusing on this fall's mid-term elections. This Washington Post analysis suggests the Bushies see an iceberg on the horizon.

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About a half-dozen families who lost loved ones on 9-11 testified on behalf of al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui, who is facing a possible death penalty. In the meantime, the court heard more about his paranoid schizophrenia.

Here's the NYT story.

The more detailed AP story can be found on CTV.ca.

And because good things come in threes, here's the Washington Post one.