Winnipeg finally gets an NHL team back, the lowly Atlanta franchise, while, with the finals starting tonight, Vancouver is the favourite to win the Cup. Canada rejoices!

The Existentialist Cowboy: How Sarah Palin, if successful, could prove Darwin utterly wrong. (Not really, but it's a concern.)

They Gave Us a Republic: How Paul Ryan's budget, GOP orthodoxy from which dissent is verboten (right, Newt?), opens up a new front in the right's war on women.

Newshoggers: It looks like a tipping point for severe climate change has been reached. This is what denialism gets us.

Simply Left Behind: David Brooks ponders the fate of college graduates. With all the usual hyper-capitalist blather one would expect. There's more to life than being a corporate drone.

Round-up by Michael J.W. Stickings of The Reaction. I'll be here all week.

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