Tennessee’s failure to execute Christa Pike in Wednesday raises a whole lot of questions. Can you provide answers? I am not a big fan of the death penalty, partly on theological grounds. But we won’t get into that today – and there are those with other theological positions on the subject that I concede have […]
Well, I thought it was funny enough to share,
The CEO of American high tech firm Palantir thinks the US government should nationalize the artificial intelligence industry. His rationale is that the industry is about to be crippled by lawsuits and that being government controlled would somehow prevent that. It is true that every day seems to bring another news story about some company’s […]
I get that it was a stupid joke, especially given the political sensibilities. I don’t think it should have been a firing offence. Am I wrong? One of the drawbacks to the age of social media is that you have no control over what happens to the things you post. As an American bank CEO […]
I borrowed this from a friend’s Facebook page. I found it amusing, though not accurate. It does though express the Canadian mood. There are 15 locks on the St. Lawrence Seaway. Together they allow commercial ships from the Atlantic Ocean to travel as far west as Thunder Bay. It is a much more efficient/cheaper way […]
I went to church, and was slammed by the passage of time. Nothing, and everything, had changed. It had been almost 25 years since I last visited Montreal’s Madison Baptist Church, the place my family attended pretty much every Sunday from 1957 to 1972. My formative years were spent there. Intellectually I understood that it […]
While Ottawa is experiencing warm days and sunshine more like summer than fall, this pile of wood showed up beside the baseball diamond in my local park on Monday, a reminder that winter is coming. With the leaves on the trees only just beginning to change, it is a time of transition. Probably most Canadians […]
I was discussing family history with my brother and sister in our online chat, specifically our maternal grandfather’s wartime service. Seeking to clarify a point, I looked up his records and realized that today is the 110th anniversary of the day he arrived in England, after almost nine months of training in Canada. Like many, […]
“The cross or the machine. It’s always the same choice.” – Marcus Mumford, “Conversation with my Son” That line has been haunting me since the end of February, when I first heard Prizefighter, the latest album from Mumford & Sons. So much richness in a few words. I am not going to review the album, […]
While i give world news a chance to percolate a bit, I thought I would go back to this date in 2020 for something that is less likely to raise anyone’s blood pressure.
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