News Flash Last Week: “Because of shortages, the government will now allow Lower Mainland people to go into Washington State to fill up their gas tanks without having a COVID test to come home.” Wow! Prompt government action in an emergency! News Flash Next Day: “Border services are giving out $2000 fines and requiring quarantine…
Month: November 2021
Social Commentary
Extra Languages
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I’ve been trying to learn Spanish for years. Twenty-three, as it happens. As a family project we all took Spanish lessons over the winter of 1998 and then went to Puerta Vallarta for spring break. But my acquaintance with the language has been a very off-and-on project, and to this day I’d have to say…
Social Commentary
Follow the Ad — At Your Own Risk
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I put the snow tires on my car this week. I always put them on the first week of November, and leave them on until the first of March. Of course, I live in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, where we might get three weeks of actual snow on the ground if we’re unlucky. There is…
Politics, Social Commentary
Cop26: All Talk, No Action
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Over the last two weeks we have been treated to a news media barrage of items about the various conferences where the heads of the Modern World get together and plan our futures for us. As far as I can see, nothing has changed. The leaders spend millions of dollars (especially on carbon-filled plane travel)…
Social Commentary
What Is Freedom?
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The anti-vaxxers have it right. We are not free. Freedom is a myth perpetrated by those who flog the American Dream because it allows them to perpetuate a law-of-the-jungle version of capitalism. The Freedom to Impose Your Will on Others. America’s famous founders didn’t cross the Atlantic to practise freedom. They left Europe so they…