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Amid the groaning smorgasbord of alibis, excuses and rationalizations for the much-maligned Senate served up by the federal government鈥檚 able apologists, the most delicious comes from Senator Marjory LeBreton.

No, I didn't cheat on my diet...or skip a day of exercise. I just haven't been blogging recently. 1 post a week is simply not good enough for me...perhaps that's why I've been a little more anxious lately...blogging is my therapy.

Have you ever noticed that it seems to take longer the first time you travel somewhere, but the same route home seems shorter.

The Canadian Special Operations Forces Command has recently produced a well-done three-minute video that shows its men and women operating in the air, at sea and on land.

The idea that suicide can be contagious is an old one. It partly explains the long-observed taboo around reporting on and talking about suicide, as if even acknowledging it could somehow spread the contagion.

Dave Dingwall said it best. 鈥淚鈥檓 entitled to my entitlements,鈥� he told a House of Commons committee before resigning in 2005 as president of the Royal Canadian Mint because of expense claims deemed excessive.

When I went to journalism school at the turn of this century, none of my professors thought to include a seminar on the ethics of Crackstarters. We had seminars on the ethics of almost any other challenge we might encounter.

This insect can recognize human faces. It can outsmart supercomputers in solving complex mathematical problems. When it鈥檚 ill, it self-medicates.

All this hubbub surrounding the seemingly never-ending Mike Duffy scandal reminds me of a debate I had a few years ago with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. OK, strictly speaking, it wasn鈥檛 actually a debate.

The 鈥渨ork鈥� of yoga is finding a union between one鈥檚 mind, body and spirit. But many a yogi who has reached this seemingly unattainable union likely did not have their children toddling behind them.