+5 After nine weeks of disagreement, CUPE and the city have agreed to bring in mediators to help them work through their bullshit. And everyone knows what comes after mediators: Divorce court!

- 2 An American activist, who was detained by immigration officials in B.C. for two days, is accusing Ottawa of trying to silence critics of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq... Fucking Americans. Always washing their hands.

+9 OJ Simpson is being held without bail after breaking into a Las Vegas hotel room to steal some sports memorabilia that probably has something to do with him. It’ll be pretty funny if OJ winds up going to jail for this, after he beat double murder.

+3 Blackwater, the mysterious/evil corporate army that has been fighting the war in Iraq, has apparently been banned from Iraq
… by Iraq. (UPDATE: Now that the New York Times has weighed in on this, the news seems a little more official.)

- 1 A Chinese man has died from exhaustion, induced by a reported three day Leisure Suit Larry binge.

Today: +14 This Year: - 19