For good and obvious reasons, destruction of essential civilian infrastructure such as water supply and sewage systems is prohibited by the laws of war. Attacking such targets is a war…
Work on Road through Time progresses: the chapter about “Warriors’ Roads” is just about done. One of the things that I’ve learned is that most road improvements in early times…
We humans are doing a good job to pollute our planet. Not in too distant future it may become unlivable. You may watch the video here.
Events in Ferguson, MO this past week have been deeply disturbing, if not downright distressing. I don’t particularly need to recount them in any detail. Precisely what happened, and who…
TweetIn 1971, The Jackson 5 were topping the billboard charts and Peter Lougheed‘s Progressive Conservatives were just starting what has become an uninterrupted 43-year reign as Alberta’s governing party. Recent…
I remember when a hard rain meant you might see standing water in farm fields. That was a different time even if it was just a couple of decades ago.…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Bert Olivier is the latest to weigh in on Paul Verhaeghe’s work showing that the obsessive pursuit of market fundamentalism harms our…
Son Three, world skitter board champ. Nice. .
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I grew this! It’s eight inches long, and three more are on the way. What’s ordinary to you veteran gardeners is still miraculous to me. Gardening on a small scale…
This makes the hashtag #IfTheyGunnedMeDown so powerful. It's sad that some people have taken it to another level. http://t.co/oZnLDRRDhN — Sammie. ™ (@LordSWVP) August 11, 2014 ‘WELP: WHITE SUSPECT That’s…
Michel de Montaigne wrote in his usual self-deprecating but sardonic way: If other men would consider themselves at the rate I do, they would, as I do, discover themselves to…
Droves of baby boomers — myself included — have lamented the political disengagement of the young. But, in the light of Michael Sona’s conviction for election fraud this week, it…
Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh….. H/t Canadians Rallying to Unseat Stephen Harper Recommend this Post
The Conservative party has consistently said it ran a clean and ethical campaign and had nothing to do with what happened in Guelph and has also said that they ‘fully…
We have discovered why the federal government cannot find enough people to adjudicate on its Social Security Tribunal. Murielle Brazeau, Chair of the tribunal, explains on its web site that…
Who’s behind the recent act of political terrorism against Justin Trudeau?
Central Library at National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City While I wait impatiently to post some exciting news, please enjoy these photos of amazing libraries all over the world.…
When I first heard that somebody had broken into Justin Trudeau's home, while his wife and his children slept, and he was not there, I felt a chill go down…
