For staying cool during the bubble

Our derided ex-PM, Paul Martin, set a fiscal course that could save Canada from the worst of this meltdown. Read it here. 

"I've never seen such uncertainty"

That's what a newly chastened Stephen Harper said this week, and the man has a point: 2008 could very well be the year that humans gave up all hope of understanding money. Read it here.

"We will be the most boring party"

Bob Rae uttered these words about the Liberals as he stepped down from the leadership race earlier this week. And when the alternative is evocative of Shakespearean tragedy, we can only hope that he is correct. Read it here.

"Sloppy seconds"

Sean Avery and a backwards moral code. Read it here.

"He wanted to make a tourist attraction out of his house"

That's the latest twist in the horrific story of the Austrian man who locked his daughter in a dungeon for 24 years, and it's a new feature of the banality of evil: It wants to sell tickets to its own spectacle. Read it here. 

What's with all the ugly people having sex?

From Tommy and Pam to YouPorn and, now, from “Nailin’ Palin” to Zack and Miri Make a Porno, tracking the democratization of pornography to the mainstream. Read it here.

How about a little loyalty?

In politics, media and beyond, our society's new heroes are complicated people with glimmers of hope- a look at pop culture now. Read it here.