Category Society
Friday’s Questions
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 […]
Scary AI
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 […]
The Backlash
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 […]
Monday’s Smile
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 […]
The Pew
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 […]
In The Park
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 […]
Haunting Words
“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, […]
Pissing Match
It has been attributed to many famous people who never said it, including Benjamin Franklin and Mark Twain. No matter its origins, there is a lot of truth to the idea that you should “Never pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton.” As a publicity-seeker, you […]
Labour Day 2026
Today is a holiday in Canada. In the US also, though they spell it Labor Day. I guess the extra ‘u’ was too much like work, so they dropped it. Given that it is a holiday, I thought I would take today off – especially since today is a salute to workers, and posting here […]
A Relic of the Past
How are you at cleaning your car? Not the exterior, but the stuff you accumulate inside. Napkins, lip balm, plastic utensils and straws, wipes, tissues, sanitizer, cloth shopping bags, small ice scraper, a miniature umbrella, loose change for tolls, phone chargers, first aid items – all those things it is good to have on hand, […]
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