Daniel Briere is getting over his groin adhesions; for this guy, the problems are just starting. Oh, the life of Daniel “Danny” Briere – it’s just one injury after another these days, isn’t it? If you’re a fantasy manager, you were stoked to see Briere finally bac...

Well, this has been a depressing day. John Odom, the minor leaguer who made news last year when he was traded for 10 maple bats, has died of an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol. Thrown off of his high school team, knocking around in the San Francisco Giants' farm system, Odom was a lost soul...

Filed under: Activism, Blogs, North America, United States, Airlines, News Three Phoenix-based flight attendants are in the unusual position of defending themselves from pilot-instigated litigation. Of course, they deserve it. I mean, what would you do when people responsible for passenger safety re...

I have known several die hard Montreal Canadiens fans over the years.  They are obnoxious and arrogant and when the Habs are winning, they can be impossible to be around.  The same can be said for Toronto Maple Leaf fans.  They are also obnoxious, arrogant and the occasional times whe...

My friend John Carpay of the Canadian Constitution Foundation has a great piece on the despicable actions of the "University" of Calgary. John Carpay: Free speech dies a slow death on Canadian campuses Posted: February 09, 2009, 8:45 AM by Kelly McParlandFull CommentShould a public university, funde...

Our friend Bruxy Cavey is doing some speaking in Calgary for those of you out that way: Tuesday Feb. 3 “Granola Jesus: Jesus and the End of Environmental Degradation� 3 pm - University of Calgary, MacEwan Hall “Jesus and the End of Religion� 7:30 pm - Parkdale Grace United Church, 2608 – 1...

In the strategic and apparently puposeful deception of a trusting public, Alberta's Oil Patch Daily (a.k.a., the Calgary Herald) and University of Calgary political science Professor Barry Cooper are exuberant co-conspirators. Reasonable evidence appears in the column that Cooper pens weekly for the...

I’ll be in Calgary from Monday to Friday next week, catching up with my friend and co-worker John Bristowe (he’s Microsoft’s Developer Evangelist for Western Canada) and speaking at the Tech Days conference. If you use (or are thinking of using) The Empire’s technologies, Tech Days is a pret...

If you live in Calgary Centre-North you might have missed the 2008 All Candidate Debate. (You may have missed it because it took place at noon on Tuesday.) Here is our coverage which is about one million times better than the Calgary Centre-North debacle. A transcript of the 2008 Calgary Centre All ...

(c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - No team can get it right in round one every year, even drafting very high. And at times all teams get it really wrong then. A survey such as this is a powerful reminder of the crapshoot that is selecting 18-year-old hockey players. However, it is als...