UncategorizedIt is not for you to know the times or the seasonsWhen I saw that Preston Manning had written an op-ed about Alberta for the Globe , I started a little stopwatch in my...
UncategorizedUnobserved irony about that Swiss minaret banCosh: ’When you scratch the surface of the minaret controversy, you pretty much find the Charlottetown accord’
UncategorizedWhat’s the saving throw against a chaotic-evil digithief?There is something remarkable about this quote from Les Hinton that perhaps nobody has noticed. If the "and" in the last sentence...
UncategorizedKing James and King CashChris Ballard’s Sports Illustrated column suggesting that LeBron James should sign for the NBA minimum in 2010 , wherever he...
UncategorizedAwaiting the Tiger taleWhy did Woods’s wife have to smash the rear window of his SUV with a golf club?
UncategorizedOne great thing about gay marriage: it’s simple.From England comes news of a couple who want their romantic and economic partnership recognized under the law, but who just don’t...
UncategorizedNorwich, we still have a problemLaymen who have understandably decided to accept what much of the media now treats as axiomatic--that humans are causing...
UncategorizedThe fine art of paramilitary euphemismThe B.C. Civil Liberties Association is to be applauded for a marginal victory in the seemingly endless fight against homegrown...
UncategorizedNumismatic dysphoriaI was thinking about the Toronto Transit Commission, and those metal fare tokens whose decades-overdue decirculation is causing so...