Miscellany

Some stories in yesterday's Globe that piqued my interest:

• Honestly, I cringe now everytime I hear about this 'campaign' to bring David Letterman to Nova Scotia (in the wake of Ellen Page's appearance on his show earlier this month). Though we keep hearing that it's "all a bit of fun", I'm not so sure. For God's sake, people...the man was just being polite.
• A federal government employee takes a photo of her boss asleep on the job, and gets suspended for "humiliating management". Proof positive that you really can get away with just about anything if you work in the public service.
  
• And on the front page, a fascinating story (by a woman I went to college with) of a troupe of Inuit performers who travelled to Timbuktu to take part in a desert arts festival put on by the nomadic indigenous people of the Malian Sahara. Turns out that the Inuit and the Tuareg have more in common than we might think.