This post may be outdated by the time you read it. It was completely rewritten once already. The original mocked Donald Trump for ordering the Justice Department to prevent the certification of the Alaska Senatorial election should the Republican candidate lose. Such an attempt to interfere in the race before the votes were cast was […]
The problem with writing about current issues is sometimes you get overtaken by the news. This is not today’s scheduled post on election interference. That one needs some significant changes thanks to a news story that broke on Wednesday. You can look for it tomorrow. In the meantime, don’t enter the dangerous area.
The words mean different things to different people, but there is no doubt Donald Trump is against electoral interference. Unless he is the one doing the interfering. He recently suggested Canada and Canadians were trying to influence the outcome of the US midterm elections that are taking place next week. He seemed quite upset about […]
I got caught up in municipal election coverage on television last night and didn’t get today’s post finished. That means I am taking today off. Which explains the cartoon at the top of this page. The difference is, I got to choose this one.
Ever have one of those weekends? Me too. I was planning on writing about the municipal election today, but life intervened. So today, as I scramble to fix some things, we flash back nine years to a post from October 26, 2017. I, as I think I have mentioned, spent a lot of time working […]
He may one day be President of the United States, so I felt it was important to read the book. J.D. Vance has left me unsettled, with a feeling he really doesn’t know who he is. Communion, which was published earlier this year, is the story of Vance’s return to faith. It is the story […]
Okay, so it is old fashioned not modern. Still, I’m curious as to how effective it would be. The sound of popcorn popping would be less piercing than the smoke detectors I have installed now. But the popcorn would have an odor as it popped, which would provide an alert for those who might have […]
Do you talk to AI about your personal life? That was a question in a newsletter in my email inbox. Apparently the New York Times is looking for input, I presume for a story about artificial intelligence and human interactions. I’ve read articles about people and AI; about people who develop romantic relationships with chatbots […]
Twelve years ago today a lone gunman, who we discovered later had been inspired by ISIS and had just killed a soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial, stormed through the front doors of the Centre Block of Parliament Hill. For many Canadians it was extremely disturbing to think that such a terrorist attack […]
It is that time of year when the leaves change from green to yellow and red. people come from Europe and farther to take in the fall colors in the Ottawa area (as well as elsewhere in Ontario, Quebec and norther New England). Maybe it was our wet summer, but it seems to me the […]
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