Monthly Archives: November 2021

CNN headline today:“Cheney fights insurrection. Cruz fights Big Bird.” Yes, I think that nicely sums up the differences in ideology between the Dems and the GOPs.

  (2020: left to right–Rickenbacker electric 12, McKenzie-Marr acoustic from Montreal, Gibson ES 335 TD) Next stage is moving from the vintage SONY cassette tapes to computer files and thence to CDs. The decline of the two left digits on … Continue reading →

Some fifty years before the first significant ‘modern’ terrorism and assassination madness in North America and abroad. Listening last night again to a complete reading of The Secret Agent when the following quote turned up as the mad Professor-bomber was … Continue reading →

I scream, you scream, we all scream, for ice cream. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bearFuzzy Wuzzy had no hairFuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzyWas he? How much wood would a woodchuck chuck If a woodchuck could chuck wood? She sells sea … Continue reading →

After Kenney blessed 2 MLAs supporting anti-vaxxers raising Nazi comparisons, they quickly resigned from that group when this fact became public. Also in UCP’s curriculum document “Recognizing Diversity and Promoting Respect”, UCP rubber-stamped the “good” the genocidal regime had done … Continue reading →

at the end of Agatha Christie’s A Caribbean Mystery spoken by Miss Marple’s unexpected collaborator Jason Rafiel (played adroitly by Antony Sher): “We who are about to die salute you.”

the worst person to host the Remembrance Day coverage on CBC. (Even Peter Mansbridge, warts and all, was better.)No sense of context and appropriateness bringing up sexual assault with the new head of the military, asking multiple questions and re-raising … Continue reading →

Clifford William Reade (my wife’s Dad)–army reserve Vernon Delmar Davies (my Dad)–navy in WWII Tomorrow/Nov. 11 is their day, the day to remember them and all the other brave and selfless men who fought for Canada in the too-many wars.

“Presidents are not kings, and the plaintiff is not president.” Quite simple really in the world of physical reality, facts, and laws. Merrick Garland should make his move on Bannon a.s.a.p.