Sick of hearing about niqabs?
Me too, but I feel I have to put my oar in the water on this issue. I’ll admit my prejudice right up front. I do not like either the…
David Blackburn
“I want my country back”
Commonly seen in the Twitterverse and in online comments responding to the latest Harper Conservative “outrage” is the phrase “I want my country back”. This is immediately dismissed by the…
I’m back again – for now.
Over the past year or so this blog had been dying a slow, quiet death as I focused my blogging attention on other areas (www.ontwowheels-eh.blogspot.com). However, now that we are…
Suppose they gave an election and nobody came
In just a few weeks, on June 12, Ontario residents will go to the polls to elect a new provincial government. For some voters putting Liberal red lipstick on a…
Omnibus bills – my take
Envision this scenario. A few years ago you fell on hard times. Your income had fallen and accumulated debt was dragging you down. So you took drastic action. You cut…
Conservatives and the cult of victimhood
Having read (again) the Prime Minister’s speech to devoted Harperites in Calgary I am struck by two things. First of all is the utter banality of the speech, a view…
F35 Fiasco
I’ve avoided posting on the F35 up until now for a couple of reasons, not least of which is I have absolutely no idea whether this is the best plane…
Animated suspension
When I was traveling extensively for business I had a technique that let me deal with the hours of tedium associated with air travel. By intentionally not thinking about the…
Progress is being made
After the carnage of three weeks ago (reported here) things have been looking up, albeit frustratingly slowly. A follow up hospital visit discovered fluids had pooled in one lung so…
The views from the lake have changed
The week started out normally enough. I was playing golf with some friends a few miles east of here when we were called off the course due to electrical storms…
Bell Canada
We all love to hate large faceless corporations, and usually with good reason. Case in point: Last Monday, July 23, a massive storm blew through and several trees took down…
The Age of Entitlement
In 1967 the 5th Dimension released the “Age of Aquarius” which quickly became one of the 60’s most popular songs. According to Wikipedia, “The lyrics of this song were based…
The great unwashed
The expression “the great unwashed” has been attributed to many but was probably first used by Edmund Burke in the 1700’s to refer to the common man, the lower classes,…
“It’s not who I am as a person”
Marc Zanetti is captain of the Ottawa 67’s of the Ontario Hockey League. In a playoff game against the Niagara IceDogs the IceDogs’ Tom Kuhnhackl scored the first goal. The…
Shorter Vic Toews: “Criminals not co-operating”
So the Tories are closing a couple of prisons, including the Kingston Pen which has been in operation since 1835. Now I’ve never been in the Kingston Pen, but I…
Smaller government? Or just dumber?
I’ve long been a proponent of smaller government. Far too much money and effort goes into regulating my private life as a citizen, to support questionable business practices (inside and…
By-product of the sex offender registry
In this story, CBC reports that a Brockville man has had to “spend a lot of time and money” to clear his name because he has the same birth date…
Thoughts on Anonymous
“RCMP”, “serious threats”, “anonymous attacks” When those words are reported time and time again with respect to the security of a certain member of parliament, one begins to think the…
Robocall affair not going away any time soon
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, the robocall affair has been, if not a topic of water cooler conversation, at least of some interest.…
A lesson in “defeating the purpose”
I admit it: I’m a Tim Hortons junkie. (link) The spousal unit was troubled by all those paper cups going into the trash so, in a moment of environmental concern,…