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Peace On Earth
This is one of my favourite Christmas songs of the 21st century so far. It has a hymn-like quality to it and a nice balance between the now and the not yet. Kind of appropriate somehow for Christmas Eve. Heaven on earth We need it now I’m sick of all of this Hanging around Sick […]
The Force Awakens
This was supposed to run on Monday, but for some reason the software never posted it. I hope it works this time. If you haven’t seen the new Star Wars epic yet don’t worry, I’m not going to give away ay plot details today. Except for the part where Spock dies. Oh, wait, wrong science […]
Random Thoughts For Advent
It is the last Sunday of the Advent season. Christmas is this Friday. The lack of snow and unseasonably warm temperatures are making it easier for me to filter out the distractions of the season. It doesn’t feel like Christmas. Local golf courses will be open on Dec. 25th, for the first time ever. The […]
Dollars and Sense
Sports salaries have long passed any relation to reality, but baseball seems to be taking things to new heights. I don’t begrudge the exorbitant earnings of athletes. The worker is, after all, worthy of his hire. Professional athletes in a capitalist system may be well paid – but they would not get that money if […]
Climate Change For Dummies
Back in the 1980s a very effective television commercial for cough syrup featured an actor who delivered the line “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on television.” This apparently made him an authority. It must have worked – they switched pitchmen when the first one got in trouble for tax evasion. We seem […]
So You Think I Can Dance?
Computers baffle me at times. I’m not ashamed to admit that. At least I am assuming it is a computer that baffles me, I would hate to think it is a human that has me puzzled in this case. It’s about a job, one that apparently someone, or more likely some machine, thinks I am […]
The Oath
What does it mean to be a Canadian? Apparently whatever you like. Earlier this week, within seconds of being sworn in at a citizenship ceremony, a newly minted citizen handed the citizenship judge a letter recanting the oath of allegiance he had just sworn to the Queen, but indicating his loyalty was to Canada. It […]
Tuesday’s Thought
I’ve had this graphic on my computer for a while now, and today seems as good a day as any to share it. I have spent a good chunk of the past 40 years working with and around musicians. Some of them have been very successful, selling millions of records and making piles of money. […]
Entering The Season
Yesterday was the first Sunday in Advent. My wife insists that is when we have to put up the Christmas tree. To me that seems very early. She says December is a busy time, and if we put it off it won’t get done. I agree in theory, but somehow I don’t think we would […]
Black Friday Once Again
It seems like only a year since I was spending my time avoiding Black Friday, that orgiastic explosion of consumerism the seizes the United States at this time of year and which is slowly creeping across the border into Canada. For the past three weeks I seem to have been inundated with emails and flyers […]
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