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Maybe Not Everything
That’s 42 kph for the roadrunner, about 70 kph for the coyote. I think as children we all knew that the Roadrunner cartoon was fiction. After all, coyotes don’t have bombs or anvils, both of which I remember playing a big part in the weekly narrative. Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny were lies, but […]
Was Once Enough?
I didn’t get a good picture – maybe that was my subconscious speaking. The first bite was great, but by the end of the slice I wasn’t interested in more. Yes, those are French fries. With melted cheese curds. And gravy replacing tomato sauce. A poutine pizza. I had this creation while on vacation in […]
America’s Most Wanted
So what will the FBI do when they catch them? Drag them back to Texas in irons? Chain them to their desks in the legislature? Just lock them up and throw away they key? Or order up a firing squad? The world is laughing at the United States again. Americans don’t get the joke. The […]
Words in the Sand
Two words drawn in the sand at low tide provided the direction for my thoughts Wednesday as I walked along the beach just after sunrise: Trust God. Easier said than done. We live in an era and among a people that distrusts authority, while at the same time believing anything and everything we see on […]
Misleading Language
Rather than calling it “improved,” it is a wonder that whoever the people are who run Yahoo! didn’t borrow from George Orwell’s 1984 and say it was “doubleplusgood.” Yahoo! has “improved” its email service that has been used by millions for decades. The email service, like so many others, is free. Always has been. You […]
Shooting The Messenger
My first impulse was to laugh. I can do that because I am not an American. If I was I would cry. The national job report came out Friday in the USA. The numbers weren’t good. Turns out job growth in America was significantly weaker in May and June than had been previously reported. To […]
Montreal’s MAGA Mayor
The official statement read: “Freedom of expression is one of our fundamental values, but hateful and discriminatory speech is not accepted in Montreal and, as in other Canadian cities, the show will not be tolerated..” This was Mayor Valerie Plante’s position on a worship concert by Christian singer Sean Feucht as she canceled the permit […]
Mixing Politics and Religion
If you needed an example of why politics and religion don’t mix, this past week is a prime example. It started with Parks Canada pulling the permit for a concert for an American Christian worship leader aligned with Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, and snowballed into multiple permit revocations in different Canadian cities. I should point […]
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