How the Grinch Got Christmas
A few weeks ago, Nicholas came home to help decorate our Christmas tree. Nick is never that interested in the ‘girlie’ stuff of decorating, but he was only slightly grinch-like…
2012
Not with a bang, but a whimper #nlpoli
The longest filibuster in Newfoundland and Labrador legislative history ended quietly Saturday morning. This was the second filibuster this year and the Telegram’s legislative reported posed a simple question via…
The reason Liberals hide BC Rail files
While British Columbia’s government hides BC Rail documents from the Auditor General, consider this current news story. It demonstrates one more example of why full disclosure and transparency is needed…
The Cons and the War on Christmas. Again
Oh no. Just when I thought the War on Christmas was over. Here it comes again.As brought to us by Bill O'Reilly, the Fox Nation, and this year by Santa…
Forum Ontario Poll: 33% PC, 31% NDP, 27% OLP
Forum’s sent out their monthly Ontario provincial poll, showing the NDP heavily up and confirming with Abacus Data’s poll last week that the province is indeed in a three-way race,…
Luka Magnotta and My Lost Country
I can't imagine a worse way to end this horrible year in Harperland than having Luka Magnotta awarded the title of Newsmaker of the Year. For not only is that…
This is amazing
Bobby McFerrin leads an audience in singing Ave Maria:““ I had no idea he was so talented, and he pulls the whole audience along with him.
Merry Christmas
This holiday season, needs no reason to offer a stranger a happy greeting, where both me writing and you reading is like the coincidence of us meeting, walking past each…
The Grad School Gospels – Part 2: Passion, Fear and Indifference
In The Grad School Gospels: On Professional Baseball, Academia, and My Shared Experience with Dirk Hayhurst, I juxtaposed Hayhurst‘s pro baseball journey – which he recounts in his first book,…
Gun Crazies Are A Threat To US National Security …
-NRA President David Keene’s Son Is a Serving 10 years For Road-Rage Shooting -Woman Decorating Church Shot; 1 Of 3 Killed In PA Shooting -Gun Crazies Try To Deport Piers…
Calculating the ‘silent majority’
I may have to get fellow blogger Steve Berman a calculator for Christmas; his manipulation of numbers the last week or so has even my math-challenged brain weeping for a…
A Request of Our Readers This Holiday Season
We haven’t written much here this month for a variety of reasons, mostly because there hasn’t been all that much to write about (though we do have an update, very…
Dec, 22: the main street mystery……
I wasn’t going to write a blog today, and I can promise this will be a short one. I was out, today, shopping as always in a panic as Christmas…
Erased De Kooning
Filed under: art, digital, drawing, iPad, painting
Smarten Up Stephen Harper-Leave Our Farms Alone!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger Wendy Holm is a leading Canadian Agrologist whose work is both inspiring and essential to representing the needs of agriculture in Canada. The threat to our…
How Christy Clark can get reelected
When Christy Clark became the Premier of British Columbia, I, along with many other people, had high hopes. During the campaign and her first few months as Premier, she made…
The South -> North Innovation Path in Government: An Example?
I’ve always felt that a lot of innovation happens where resources are scarcest. Scarcity forces us to think differently, to be efficient and to question traditional (more expensive) models. This…
Republicans on the no new taxes road to ruin
The Republican party in the U.S. has taken that road for almost two decades now and our Prime Minister has imported that no new taxes philosophy to Canada. Conservative sycophants…