SEVERAL MORE BLASTS FROM THE PAST

Rock 102 (WBEN-FM) Buffalo from 1981 with pre-recorded anncr backselling songs. 

Tape 2: Same as above.

Rock 102 (WBEN-FM) Buffalo from 1982 with unknown anncr back and frontselling songs, mentioning it was a "music bonus", an hour of commercial free music.

Tape 4: Same as above but with full ID.

Tape 5: Just songs.

Tape 6: Same as above.

1050 CHUM Toronto from at least July 19, 1984 John Majhor frontselling songs, congratulating Eugene Welsh of Scarborough as latest winner of saga contest. Later, mentioned Chris de Burgh playing Toronto that Friday. Later, said Culture Club was #8 on the "CHUM 30."

1050 CHUM Toronto from summer 1985 John Majhor mentioning Gulf gas giveaway. Later, Russ McLeod teeing up songs for that hour. On the other side of the tape, what appeared to be a broadcast of a concert by The Nylons.

SHADY CHARACTERS: THE SECRET LIFE OF PUNCTUATION, SYMBOLS, & OTHER TYPOGRAPHICAL MARKS

By Keith Houston. New York: W. W. Norton, 2013.

Even more interesting than I thought.

The author charts the history of punctuation marks, devoting different chapters to specific symbols. Along with covering the fascinating history of the things we employ to make our writing clear, the author also delves into the histories of stuff such as coins, printing, the typewriter, and fiction along the way.

Purchase it here. 

SEVERAL MORE BLASTS FROM THE PAST

102.5 WBEN-FM Buffalo Rock 102 from 1982 with ID and voicetracked anncr back and frontselling songs cold. 

104.5 CHUM-FM Toronto from 1985 unknown anncr counting down the "Top Twelve at 12", midnight, that is.

104.5 CHUM-FM Toronto from 1987 Rick Ringer coming off a record.

104.5 CHUM-FM from 1988 unknown anncr saying 4:30 "information update" was coming up with Bob Summers. Later, ID voiced by Gord James, "104.5 CHUM-FM, listen while you work."

104.5 CHUM-FM from spring 1989 Gord James giving time of 12:23, saying it was the Thursday before a long weekend and that the kids were getting out of school. At the end of the song James was frontselling, an ID voiced by him "Toronto's rock and lots of it." Later an ID urging people to listen to the station in their cars. Later, Lee Eckley giving time of 7:10 in the middle of "25 minutes of nonstop rock." 

104.5 CHUM-FM Toronto from late 1989 Gord James talking about song of the day contest where you could win skis and bindings. On the other side of the tape, Q-107 (CILQ-FM) Toronto ID mentioning they were broadcasting to the Anik B sattilite. 

104.5 CHUM-FM Toronto from 1982 Roger Ashby "Sunday Morning Oldies" frontselling songs. Spotlight on The Hollies. Later returned to regular programming.

FM 108 (107.9 CING-FM) Burlington unknown anncr backselling songs.

104.5 CHUM-FM Toronto unknown anncr listing qualifiers for vacation contest and playing oldies. Gord James IDs as well as a couple kind of funky, sung ones.

APATHY CAUSING CANADIANS TO LOSE DEMOCRACY

This guy is right! Canadians do not care about anything, seriously. 

SPACE RELATIONS ON THE DARK "PLANET"

This video discusses Trump, Epstein and the One in control of it all. 

EUROPE IS DILUSIONAL

Oh my!

 

National Review

 

Europe Is Delusional

By Charles C. W. Cooke

December 10, 2025 1:44 PM

 

Europe, in the year 2025, is what NPR would look like if it ran a continent.

 

It is time for a rant about Europe. It has, in fact, been time for quite a while, but there is always a moment at which the straw meets the camel, and, for me, that moment came when the European Union announced that it intended to extort another hundred million dollars or so out of the wildly productive American tech sector, and then the bureaucrats and politicos who staff that dreadful institution took to the very service they were in the midst of extorting to offer up generalized attacks on the United States. As a former Brit who enjoys spending time in both France and Italy, I take no particular pleasure in unloading in this manner, but honesty compels it: In its current incarnation, Europe is a poor, corrupt, sclerotic, vampiric open-air museum, and its leadership class is full of priggish, dishonest, supercilious, rent-seeking parasites, whose boundless sense of superiority ought by rights to have vanished in 1901. Europe, in the year 2025, is what a continent would look like if it were run by NPR. It is a librarian in a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles, snobbishly shushing the workers outside. It is a faculty meeting, a Sierra Club protest, a forum for those who believe that words create reality. There is no reason that we in the United States should consent to be lectured by the apologists for such a silly place.

 

Worse yet is how unabashedly smug those who engage in this lecturing have become. Criticize a European from America and you will immediately be hit with a wall of undeservedly self-righteous disdain. This should not be mistaken for pride; rather, it is that peculiar, negative, defensive sort of hauteur that is focused less on the positive virtues of the speaker, and more on his deeply held conviction that, whatever his deficiencies, at least he’s not you. That, at root, is the contemporary European mantra — At Least We’re Not American — and, like many mantras, it is impervious to fact or repudiation. What about the massive gap in GDP that has opened up between the U.S. and Europe since 2008? At least we’re not American. What about the anemic performance of European companies relative to those in the United States? At least we’re not American. What about the gulf between GDP per capita in Europe and GDP per capita in the United States, or about the U.S.’s great advantages in biotech and energy and advanced semiconductors, or the fact that, if most European countries were to join the U.S., they’d have a lower standard of living than people do in Mississippi, or that the average European is six times more likely to die from a lack of heating or air conditioning than an American is from a gun, or that most European countries are unable to usefully project military power? At least we’re not American.

 

Why, pray, do Europeans tell themselves that? Because, if they didn’t, they might have to account for their failures, and because that would require a capacity for introspection that they simply do not possess. Read any Eurocrat’s assessment of the United States, and you will encounter a thoroughly preposterous image of life here, in which science is ignored in favor of superstition; in which nobody is able to read or write; in which only billionaires are admitted to hospitals; in which one is unable to go to the supermarket without being gunned down by gangs; in which the sole food option is McDonald’s; and which, absent the benevolent guidance of EU censors, the population is fatally misled by an endless supply of Koran-burning bigots — and yet which, despite all of that, has magically managed to become the richest, most powerful, most sought-after nation in the history of the world. Invariably, these hallucinations are coupled with a penchant for sophistry and excuse-making that would make Gorgias blush. Europe’s feeble economic growth is recast as “sustainability.” Its habitual censorship of dissenters is brushed away with the contention that any speech that is prosecuted is, by definition, not “free speech” at all. Poor people have adopted a salutary “life balance”; rule by apparatchiks is “sophisticated democracy”; the superintendence of every last thing is the “management of community tensions.” Most fun of all, perhaps, is the insistence that all critics of Europe and its governments must by definition be “far right,” and even working on behalf of Vladimir Putin — a bizarre charge to hear from the leaders of a continent that has spent 80 years being protected by the carapace of hard American power.

 

I am a writer, not a politician, and as a result I am free to be as rude as I wish about anything that takes my fancy. Given the geopolitical concerns at stake, I would not recommend that those in power here in America echo my sentiments about Europe in quite this fashion or this tone, but I would hope that they are aware of the problem, which is that Europe — a region that the West needs to remain a useful ally — has become utterly deluded about its fortunes, its importance, its nature, and its very place in the world, and that unless it is told “No” by its suzerains, forcefully, repeatedly, and without any interest in the looks it receives in return, that delusion is unlikely to be dissipated any time soon.

DOORDASH DRIVER ACCUSED OF PEPPER-SPRAYING CUSTOMER'S ORDER, RESULTING IN WIFE FALLING ILL

New York Post

 

DoorDash driver accused of pepper-spraying customer’s Arby’s order, resulting in wife falling ill

By Nicholas McEntyre

Published Dec. 10, 2025, 1:00 a.m. ET

 

Caught red (pepper) handed.

 

A DoorDash driver has been banned from the app after being accused of dousing an order with pepper spray and causing an unsuspecting customer to fall ill after eating the tainted food.

 

The sick act was caught on a doorbell camera outside an Evansville, Indiana, home just after midnight on Sunday.

 

The driver, who hasn’t been charged with any crime, was dropping off an Arby’s delivery to Mark Cardin and his wife, Mandy, when she snapped a confirmation photo before suddenly producing an object from her pocket and spraying the order.

 

The blue-haired worker placed the spray back into her jacket pocket before walking away, all in front of the camera.

 

The couple brought the order inside, unaware that something was wrong with it and began chowing down.

 

Moments later, Mandy began struggling to breathe.

 

“I noticed my wife had starting eating and she started choking and gasping, and after she had a couple bites of her food she actually threw up,” he told WFIE.

 

The horrified customer began investigating the cause of his wife’s sudden illness when he examined the order.

 

“I had a look at the bag and seen that there was some kind of spray or something,” Cardin said. “The bag had been tampered with. So I pulled up my doorbell camera and seen that the lady who dropped the food off had actually tampered with it on purpose for some reason.”

 

Cardin shared the photos and videos of the driver to Facebook asking for help in identifying the driver.

 

He attempted to contact her but found she already blocked him on the app.

 

Cardin reported the food runner’s stunt to DoorDash and the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office is looking to get the driver fired and charged.

 

“I definitely want to see her prosecuted,” Cardin told WFIE, adding that they had never met her before and had left a tip before the incident.

 

The driver has been banned from the app after footage surfaced of the late-night delivery.

 

“We have zero tolerance for this type of appalling behavior. The Dasher in question has been permanently removed from the platform, and our team is standing by to support law enforcement with any investigation,” a DoorDash spokesperson told The Post.

 

Cardin doesn’t know exactly what was sprayed on the food, fearing it could’ve been worse than it was.

 

“It’s horrific,” Cardin said. “We assume it’s pepper spray, that’s more than likely what it is, but now in this day and age it could’ve been anything. It could’ve been rat poison, it could’ve been fentanyl. I mean, my wife could’ve been dead.”

 

The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office has opened an investigation into the driver and could charge her with consumer product tampering, a level 6 felony, according to WFIE.

 

If the foreign spray resulted in harm the charge could be increased to a level 5 felony.

 

“We live in a terrible world right now,” Mark said. “Horrific. People are mean for no reason. There was no reason to do what she done,” Cardin said, encouraging other food delivery app users to be cautious with their future orders.

 

“I would say to anybody, if you order food on any kind of delivery service, make sure you have a doorbell,” Mark said.

 

“This is making me second guess ever ordering food from anywhere ever again,” he said.