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 […]
About this time each year I share photos of the sunrise over Old Orchard Beach, Maine. I expected to to do that again today. Except, even though I have been on the beach before 5:30 each morning this week, I haven’t seen any sunrises. Some days it has been cloudy, others hazy (possibly wildfire smoke […]
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 […]
I haven’t had a Nigerian scam email for years now. Either people are being more careful online or scammers are getting more sophisticated. Which do you think it is?
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 […]
August 1 was tariff day, the day Donald Trump was to announce what financial penalties he was going to levy on Canada for selling Americans the oil, gas and electricity they need. Earlier in 2025 people waited for those announcements, wondering how Trump’s tariff wars would impact them personally and Canada as a nation. No-one […]
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 […]
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 […]
First it was the French, then the British. Unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza, they will recognize Palestinian statehood. Leaving aside the issue of the legalities of recognizing a territory with no government, this pretty much precludes an end to hostilities. Why would the Palestinians agree to end to their fighting now that […]
It’s all about the money according to CBS. It just looks like censorship. Or craven pandering to the president. Which I can’t quite buy. If CBS wanted to curry favor with Donald Trump they would have taken Stephen Colbert off the air immediately and not announced that his show would end in 2026. Still, is […]
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