Month: November 2015

Decaying Petronus Equipment in Malaysia Misfiled Earlier A quick scan of this week’s news headlines shows an interesting but not altogether unexpected trend: businesses getting caught. 1. Volkswagen admits to defrauding the public on a huge scale (like 11 million cars worldwide this year.) And do we really think they’re the only ones? 2. The owner…

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Misfiled Earlier. So I open the paper on Friday morning, and on Page B1 I am faced with “10 people killed in College Mass Shooting.” Ho, hum. Unhappy as this may be for the families of the victims, the statistics don’t care. There have been 994 mass shootings in the US in the last three…

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Misfiled last month Regional strategies aside, once in a while Canadian voters actually make an intelligent choice. Years ago, when they gave Stephen Harper his first minority government, for example. He wasn’t the proper guy for the job, but the Liberals had earned the right to be chucked from the game for a while, and the…

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A friend of mine is having a show of some of his photographs. In this case, its a bunch of guys who grew their facial hair for Movember, in honour of the campaign to cure prostate cancer. None of these are models. They’re just a group of normal fellows who are having fun for a…

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Can’t get away without talking about it. As with 9/11, one cannot help but sympathize deeply with a population that has discovered the depths of their vulnerability. The “Bomb the hell out of them,” response is understandable. However, cooler heads must prevail. There is one point that must be reiterated: Nothing Has Changed. Qualify that.…

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How often do we hear the comment “He drives as if he owns the road”? The answer to that question gets us into a very subjective realm, leading to a lot of unpleasant thoughts and road rage, and ultimately to accidents. However, there are areas of the road that you do own, and some that…

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When I watch the news clips of the refugees arriving in Eastern Europe these days, I am struck by the contrast to the old shots we used to see of refugees like the Vietnamese Boat People. What is the difference? The boats. The boats we used to see (and sometimes still do) used by refugees…

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After all the serious politics of the last couple of months, let’s forget all that Canadian stuff and go for something fun. US Politics. The Big Question Question: What’s the difference between the American Presidential race and reality TV? Answer: Um…? But that’s not asking the important question, which is, “Can American voters tell the…

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