Summer is over
Took this up at the cabin, as we were preparing to leave. Summer is truly over, isn’t it?
Musings
In Sunday’s Sun: Quebec, values and history
In the fall of 1936, as the plague of Nazism continued spreading across Germany, Oldenburg issued a decree. The northern German district had decided to order the removal of crucifixes…
Guitarist wanted
To fill a rather sudden vacancy. Apply to wkinsella at hotmail.com!
Ch-ch-changes
…not the changes referred to in the last-day-in-Maine post, below. For those impatient to hear what “big changes” mean, stay tuned. They are indeed big, and it is my fervent…
The Palma Violets cover the Hot Nasties!
Just heard about this from @MorganeSG – did anyone else know about this? Wow! The Hot Nasties are famous, 33 years after the fact!
‘Nuff said
Summer almost over. Leaving Maine with Sons Two and Three shortly. What lies ahead?
In Tuesday’s Sun: agenda-setting
The competition for the public agenda — and the public’s attention — is fierce. It’s also a bit of a paradox. The paradox is that the public’s agenda isn’t the…
Ontario’s shame
You have to read the whole story. It is really, really important. Quote: “Abused, neglected, vulnerable — they should have been protected. Instead, they were deprived of that most precious…
In Sunday’s Sun: the best and worst of Trudeau
The best and worst of the Liberal Party of Canada were on full display in the past week. On the one hand, there was the “race” to be the Liberal…
Drug wars
The Liberal standard bearer has tried pot a few times and doesn’t drink coffee. Two of the top Conservative icons, meanwhile, haven’t sued anyone for stating one of them smokes…
Sad day
I am taking Daughter and Son One to Boston today. They are flying back to Toronto. Son One is starting hockey camp, and daughter is going to be packing for…
Internet law, the basics: hyperlinks
For anyone getting harassed by a lunatic threatening to sue them for linking to another web site, note this: “…the majority held that a plaintiff concerned about mere hyperlinks should…
My perspective
…at ce moment. The Bush family are off to the left, which I bet is the first time somebody has ever said that about them.
In Tuesday’s Sun: is “gay conservative” conjunctive or disjunctive?
Circa 1977 at my Calgary Catholic high school, most of my friends — charter members of the drama/music/poetry/punk rock subculture — were gay. So, even in arch-conservative Calgary, being gay…
W@AL: how to do a world-class expert frisbee throw
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Mother’s Beach, Maine
Beach house, outhouse, old punk louse.
In Sunday’s Sun: abolish the Senate. Then abolish journalists in the Senate.
The revelations about Sen. Pamela Wallin — and her apparent willingness to use the treasury as her personal piggy bank — will get folks talking again about abolishing the Senate.…
Toronto needs a mayor: police investigate Ford crony who assaults women, sought crack video
The noose is tightening. Quote: “Toronto police are investigating attempts by associates of Mayor Rob Ford to retrieve the crack cocaine video. One target of the investigation is Alexander “Sandro”…
Greetings from the U.S. of A.
I was a Texan. Proof, in six seconds, here.