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Double-Double Duty? G.I. [Cup of] Joe

Canadian Military advertises job post for “coffee commando”: clerk who’s main duties are to “prepare coffee orders, set up commanding officer’s coffee and control coffee inventory and revenue “

British Bus drivers get lost taking American and Australian Athletes to the Olympic Village

Could this be part of Britain’s strategy to win the lion’s share of medals at the Games?

Bob Dylan awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, highest civilian honour in the U.S.

Relative Pitch?: President Obama declared “There was no bigger giant in the history of American music” {roll over Ives, Barber, Copland, Reich, Ellington, Carter….}

[Happy Canada Day.] Joe Canadian makes Citizen’s arrest of Stephen Harper for Destruction of the Environment

Harper Conservatives pass law expanding Citizen Arrest Powers. Harper Government’s gutting of environmental protection laws will cause serious harm to Canadian Environment

Bill Clinton: If I did not have sax, I never would have been elected President.

Clinton tells Arts Summit that music “taught him discipline and order and made him a good listener.”

Re Summer Re-runs, no Re-Joycing

“Reruns past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of Shaw to bend of BBC brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Downton Abbey and Environs”

Vatican Secretary of State blames Devil, Media, Dan Brown for recent scandals

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone says journalists are “pretending to be Dan Brown”, creating divisions “that come from the devil.”