August 26: Mr. Baird is outraged….
That’s what it says in the Montreal papers. And for good reason. There’s a possibility those terrible Syrian government people have used poison gas. Oh, my goodness. It’s a war,…
Graeme Decarie
August 24: Where we are; and where we are going
The popular myth is that we are in a democracy in which all are born equal – which suggests that we all have an equal voice in government. That is…
August 23:apologies…
In the chaotic soap opera that is my life, |have suddently been called to Montreal and Ottawa. So, rather than talk about the Times and Transcript each day (which gets…
August 21: Exciting development for future of downtown…
….small house in downtown is moved to lot next door. “House move is seen as good for downtown.” The word ‘trivia’ hardly seems adequate for this sort of mindless bilge.…
August 20: Well….
…I am still not using my own computer. Things were looking up as Bell installed the connection after only three weeks. But they did it wrong – and who can…
August 19: Damn, damn, damn….
I wrote a long blog this morning on my own system that it took Bell only two weeks to install. When I pushed publish, nothing happened. spent over an hour…
August 14: Sleaze
The pages upon pages of pictures of kites were bad enough. Obviously, the Irvings must think we have no brains at all. (Well, of course they do. Who else would…
August 14: Yesterday, two pigeons sat on my windowsill…
They sat there, unmoving, for five or six hours, eyes open, unblinking. They were more interesting than the Moncton TandT. They certainly beat the big, front page, read-it-now story about…
August 13: bring a mop….
This is late because I’m still using a borrowed computer. I may miss a couple of days to the 18th to splash between the sandbars. Not sure. Why the mop?…
August 12: speaking out?
Alec Bruce’s column got me thinking – as it usually does. This time, he’s defending Baird for criticizing Putin’s record on brutal treatment of gays. It’s certainly reasonable that he…
August 10: Letters….
I won’t spend much time on the TandT news today because most of it reads like a tabloid, a really, really boring and trivial tabloid. It doesn’t even have the…
August 9: Good news…
…after only a week of requests, Bell-Aliant is at least going to hook up my computer (but it will take another week.) What an age of electronic miracles! Today’s issue…
August 8: Still waiting for a computer hookup..
…amazing how we become dependent on these things. I don’t know how to pay bills without a computer. I’m out of touch with everybody. My world has ceased to exist.…
August 7: Dumb……
….dumb, dumber…I called a meeting of the current events club for the same night Maude Barlow was speaking at the Capitol Theatre. Moving is so confusing. And I still haven’t…
August 6: Two in one….
There’s almost nothing to say about today’s TandT because it’s so inane. Instead, I’ll probably spend more time on yesterday’s – which had its own inanity. In fairness, I checked…
August 3: stop press news…
….NB beer sales dropping. what other newspaper in the world would run drivel like that as a big, front-page story? In fact, there’s only one story in all of section…
August 2: Wow! 12 billion dollars just for jobs in NB
That’s certainly the impression given by the headline on p. 1. “$12B pipeline is ‘a game changer’ “The same tone is picked up in the story (several stories, actually) and…
August 1: Norbert criticizes the CBC…
but loses it. It’s funny, really. Norbert has a magnificent vocabulary that is an echo of nineteenth century rural life. CBC editors, he suggests are “nervous nellies” and “sourpusses”. Boy.…
July 31:Now, it gets dirty…
A communications specialist, so-called, is commonly a spin doctor – a person who lies for whoever will pay for it. There’s a beautiful example of it on p, 1 of…
July 30: Life is…..
…I’m sorry. But there is a time when a man, a real man, must use coarse or foul language.I have been moving since Saturday. Everything hurts. I’m tired. I feel…