…but, oh, there is close to nothing worth reading in today’s Moncton Times and Transcript. The big headline story is that assistance dogs, such as guide dogs for the blind are a big help. Gee! Who would have guessed? And that breaking story takes up over half a page. The
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The Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: August 4: At last: I won Lotto Max
That’s right. Three numbers. That’s good for a free ticket that could mean tens of millions next week. But I remain humble and unassuming. In other news….. The editorial and op ed pages are marred only by a very silly editorial. It raves about how Moncton is a world leader
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: August 3: Hang out the flags….
The Moncton Times and Transcript for today rose to mediocre – with some sections actually quite decent. The stars of the day were the editorial and op ed pages. Not a bad column in either; and all fit to appear in any decent newspaper. And the front page has a lead
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: August 2: festival of watch wearers….
I’m thinking of a watch festival for next summer as a tourist highlight for the hub of the maritimes. We’ll invite Milano watch wearers ($10 at your local pharmacy). The festival will assemble at Magnetic Hill, and march down Main Street, wrists held high, until we come to someplace we
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: August 1: The edition of the TandT is so bad…..
….I can scarcely say anything about it.The one important item is that it’s looking like a very bad lobster season. The warm water has made the shells too soft for market purposes – so the season will have be later (and shorter) than the normal one. What continues to strike
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July31: Have they no shame?
The first page of today’s Monton Times and Tribune has at least two stories from yesterday’s paper – without adding much to them. (They cover the weather and a home invasion.) It has two more that may have been in yesterday (NB Liquor and NB Power); but I’m not going
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 30: a bad summer for local farmers……
…could be happening says the last page of A section in today’s Moncton Times and Transcript. Yep. Could be. Luckily, it has nothing to do with climate change. We know that because big “think-tanks” like Heartland (financed by very big corporations) tell us there is no such thing as climate
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 28: Just twenty minutes ago on this Saturday…
….I noticed a Moncton Times and Transcript in my mailbox – and realized it was Saturday. It is now 5.25 pm. It happens at my age. One also starts to drool and bump into telephone poles and forget to zip up one’s fly. Sorry about all that. And it was made worse
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 27: Planning for yesterday…
The lead story is that “Roundabouts remain controversial”. Well, yeah, when you build something you needed twenty years ago, and it is now already obsolete as well as overpriced, and you call that planning for the future, well, yeah, I would guess that’s controversial. Add to that the fact that no
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 26: a postscript of breaking news…..
….very breaking. For at least a week, I’ve been talking of a world banking crisis as major banks have been caught stealing and manipulating and supporting orgnized crime. The Moncton TandT has said close to nothing. Today, the crisis has gone mad. The biggest banks around the world are littering
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 26: The editorial gets it right…..almost
It’s nice to see the editorialist reads his own paper. He or she (though I note the editorial jobs are light on shes) followed up yesterday’s report of the dismal performance of city council in approving projects that seem astronomically overpriced. Unfortunately, he (I think we can stop kidding ourselves
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 25: Att last…three cheers….
Brent Mazerolle and The Moncton Times and Transcript come through with a real news story and a real lead for p. 1. This is one is well worth having a coffee over. “Moncton spending full of contradictions”. Indeed, that seems to be the case. Mazerolle opens with the (sensible) decision to
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July24: You know you’re in for a slow day when…..
…a big, front page story is about the opening of a new catalogue store. Page A2 has a big story about the premiers’ summit conference in Halifax. It’s a very big story. But, since the premiers haven’t actually said anything yet, there’s nothing to report.Premier Ghiz, apparently, has some really specific
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 23: Why?
There is little to comment on in today’s Moncton Times and Transcript. There is a letter from a supporter of Crandall University and its anti-gay policy (for which it receives public funding). The writer generously concedes that gays have a legal right to be gay – but they should not
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: June 21: Praise the Lord…….
….and pass the ammunition. That was a Amerian popular song of World War Two. Appropriately, it was about army chaplains who helped to load the guns. I thought of it when I read a post from a former student (an American). He wrote to me about the shooting spree in
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 20: Words, words, words…..
Sixty years ago, a United Nations army had pushed back a North Korean army onto its own territory, and was going through it like a hot knife through butter. China, not wanting American troops on its doorstep, warned the the American commander of the the UN force, General MacArthur, not
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: The Moncton Times@Transcript – Good and Bad 2012-07-19 11:26:00
Today, Norbert has a quite amusing column on how we get confused about the words we think we heard in songs, as in “While shepherds washed their socks by night, all seated round the tub….” I was reminded of that fine, old hymn we learned in Sunday school, “When mothers
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 18: Kings and popes and emperors….
When King Louis XIV woke up in the morning, courtiers would crush into his room to flatter him about the grace with which he put his pants on, the delicacy with which he ate his Krunchies. And when he sat on the toilet, there were bursts of ecstatic applause for
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 17: Quelle surprise! It’s hot out.
Last night, I wrote a brief blog on two stories that had appeared yesterday in major newspapers. They were kind of important. One was a story that Saudi Arabia may have received nuclear weapons from China. (Washington Post) The other was a story of the rampant becaviour of the world’s
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 16 addendum: what won’t be in the TandT July17
For July 16, the Washington Post web site carries a story that a former CIA contractor who had access to top level information has published an on-line book saying that China traded ballistic nuclear missiles to our good friend, Saudi Arabia, in exchange for oil guarantees. This was done when
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