First seen at Blamblog:

Afterward

Everyone loves a redemption story.

There was an amazing full moon over Toronto tonight.

How amazing?

So amazing that you wish you could just point at it, and a magic escalator would take you up there -- you know, to play golf or something. :)

From the BBC:

Opium production in Afghanistan has soared to record levels, with an increase on last year of more than a third, the United Nations has said.

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime report says the amount of opium produced there has doubled in the last two years.

It says Helmand province is now the biggest single drug-producing area in the world, surpassing whole countries such as Colombia.

Afghanistan now accounts for more than 93% of the world's opiates.

If you didn't see it the first time, check out The Taliban's Opium War, a New Yorker article by John Lee Anderson, published in the July 9 issue.

From the CP story on CTV.ca:

Journalists assigned to cover the Canadian mission in Afghanistan will now have to wear dogtags just like the soldiers.

Habituees of this space may remember an Aug. 20 posting: The 11th Commandment: Thou shalt not doeth stories on buying cars for less in the United States.

Well, it turns out that Victoria News editor Keith Norbury got whacked even though the automotive dealer in question didn't threaten sturm und drang.

More from Sean Holman's Public Eye Online:

... In a subsequent email interview with Public Eye over the weekend, Dave Wheaton Pontiac Buick GMC Ltd. dealer principal Dave Wheaton added, "I never did complain about the article until I was asked (about it by a news group representative) and it was several days after it had run. My opinion was solicited and I gave it to them in an honest, straight-forward manner, in a meeting, at their request, in my office. They phoned me. I never called them.” ...

In an earlier interview, Mr. Wheaton also stated he hadn't and wouldn't pull any advertising with the news group as a result of the story