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‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.

No team that alternates goofy games with good games one after the other is a serious contender for the Stanley Cup. No way Oilers will win another 15 games before their off-game losses and no-show losses catch up with them. … Continue reading →

As I have often remarked, we do it to ourselves whether by divorces, abuses, lawsuits, wars or wanton destruction of the environment. Much of the current AB and BC wildfire situation is owing to human-caused wildfires; in other words, it’s … Continue reading →

(overall contents) (front and back covers of slipcase box) (front and back covers of Blu-ray disc book) (sample facing pages inside: 30 discs, 41 films from 1946 to 2003; new 4K and 2K and other digital restorations; 11 intros by … Continue reading →

Close up the casement, draw the blind, Shut out that stealing moon, She wears too much the guise she wore Before our lutes were strewn With years-deep dust, and names we read On a white stone were hewn. Step not … Continue reading →

Where, like a pillow on a bed, A pregnant bank swell’d up to rest The violet’s reclining head, Sat we two, one another’s best. Our hands were firmly cemented With a fast balm, which thence did spring; Our eye-beams twisted, … Continue reading →

to people who destroy themselves like the irrational dope who set himself on fire today at the courthouse where Trump is on trial. Trump is a dangerous demonic being, of course, and he attracts the craziest loonies out there.

wantonly and deliberately destroying the environment more significantly than what they’re purportedly protesting, and endangering human lives: firefighters and the lives of nearby community citizens. No glory in that malevolent, irrational choice of action, much like the deluded European art … Continue reading →

(A play adaptation by Arthur Miller I used to teach grade 12s back in 1972-78. Ibsen’s play contained many teachable conflicts and themes. I used to cast members of the class to read aloud the play and make it come … Continue reading →

She doesn’t care that neonatal intensive care units are at capacity in Edmonton, does nothing to address this crisis, talks of expanding Calgary’s units (!), and is quite prepared to fly Edmonton infants without local facilities to Calgary or out … Continue reading →