Never make predictions, especially about the future. So said baseball great (and quipster) Casey Stengel, and he was of course right. The prediction business is high-risk and low-reward. The punditocracy…
80,000 followers. Watch out, Taylor Swift. I’m in your rear view and I’m getting closer!
Said the famous socicultural expert, with typical insight and perspicacity : “I don’t like parties past 2 a.m. Then it’s all losers and weirdos.” The expert, of course, is socialite…
For many politicians and political parties, 2024 was a horrible, awful, nasty, no-good year. Incumbent politicians and political parties, that is. The year 2024 was the worst year ever –…
Here’s a Christmas tale. O. Henry is one of my favorite writers (anyone who reads my stuff will know how much he influenced me). And one of his best-known stories…
After Mass, got one of the best presents ever – a portrait of Roxy by E., which made me cry. It’s just beautiful.
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all of you from us.
The sticker affixed to the London Calling album shrink-wrap, so many years ago, boldly declared that the Clash were “the only band that matters.” If that is true – if…
The thing you need to understand about Justin Trudeau is that he doesn’t live a life like you and I do. It’s like he’s David Bowie in Nicolas Roeg’s The…
What I wear around my neck. From right: letter “W” purchased from a Mayan in Mexico, St. Joan of Arc (my hero), Magen David I just got.
Americans sure love their perp walks, but they’re going to deeply regret this one (which even included New York City’s mayor): it was wildly, inarguably prejudicial and will be used…
On November 4, 2024, B’nai Brith discovered that Library and Archives Canada will not release Part II of the 1986 Deschênes Commission’s report on Nazi war criminals. This goes against…
I’m a bit bored, so to stir things up, I would like to remind everybody that Jesus was Jewish, almost certainly dark-skinned, spent several years living with a group of…
Chrystia Freeland, Liberal leadership candidate. There can be no other rational explanation for why the former finance minister is sticking around. None. Having fired a rocket directly at Justin Trudeau…
Picture a schoolyard. Donald Trump is there. He’s the schoolyard bully. He calls the other kids names, he threatens them, he pushes them around. Sometimes, he even hits them, for…
