Last month, I regaled whoever read the post with a story of my attempt to rent the Rambo in Afghanistan movie (Remember: III, not IV!!!!!).

Here's the scene that I dimly remembered in my rapidly deteriorating mind as having some relevance to the current day, as transcribed from a DVD that I rented from the attitude-free Suspect Video on Markham:

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From the BBC: 

Child attack dog 'pit bull breed'

Child-attack dog 'pit bull breed'

Child-attack dog a prohibited pit bull

Dog that attacked child confirmed as pit bull

Child attacks dog the pit bull breed

Children attack breeding pit bull dogs

Dog children attack 'pit bull breed'

This NYT story talks about how events overtook the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq. It's a very sobering read.

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CNN promo'd a story on the search for master terrorist Osama bin Laden with the headline "Where's Obama?" Barack Obama, of course, is the junior Senator from Illinois and a probable candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.

Unlike Osama, Obama has no known connection with al Qaeda. And his whereabouts are generally known! :^)

An excerpt from the AP story on CTV.ca:

The blunder came Monday evening on Wolf Blitzer's news show The Situation Room. Both Soledad O'Brien and Blitzer offered separate apologies during CNN's morning show Tuesday.

CNN called it a "bad typographical error" by its graphics department.

"We want to apologize for that bad typo," Blitzer said. "We also want to apologize personally to Senator Barack Obama. I'm going to be making a call to him later this morning to offer my personal apology."

The ongoing war in Afghanistan has been picked the top Canadian news story for 2006 by the country's newspaper editors and broadcasters. However, I have a small bone to pick with the CP story.

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When Poland joined the European Union, it brought some of its taste treats along with it (chocolate-covered marshallows are one example). This BBC article talks about some of the food dishes that Bulgarians and Romanians can't live without, and that may now become known to other EU palates.

Start-ups with names like Powerset, Hakia, ChaCha and Snap are hoping to beat the search king at its own game.

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Having something of a thing for snow globes, I noticed this in the NYT. But the wider lesson isn't about snow globes, its about the difference between security theatre and security that works.

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The video of Saddam Hussein being taunted by Shiite guards is not going down well with Iraq's Sunni minority, and may be cementing impressions that the Shiite-led government is a sectarian one, claims an NYT analysis.

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