It is the perfect holiday weekend with great weather, good friends, family and fun.
My family is very patient with my quirks. I’m here, but sometimes not here…
Aware of how blessed I am even in the midst of festivities, my mind meanders farther than the ground I stand on.
Where are you now? is a question they [...]

It’s the Canada Day weekend, and we Canucks party hardy.
We celebrate New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the Province of Canada becoming the Dominion of Canada.
It is a country that is officially a mere 136 years old.
Our national athem, finally accepted in 1980 is based on a poem by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier.
O Canada! Our [...]

It’s a bit odd someone would study this, but they did.
German scientists looked for traces of cocaine on Euro notes.
I’m not clear on what the results mean, and why were most of the contaminated bills from Spain?
Ibidem has an amazing peice up on the Spanish Inquisition….one of those pieces that takes historical facts and [...]

Whew. It is 31 celcuis out, which roughly translates to 92 fahrenheit. Not long ago, it was -40C, and we Canucks piled into the comments section to console ourselves. Ah Canada, gotta love it, the truth north strong and sweltering.

Midwest Conservative Journal has a piece up on the internet filtering decision regarding libraries. Since he [...]

It started here. And it caused such a reaction the post was taken down from the front page. But not before it was brought up at LivingRoom and John Adams.
I think it is great that young people are exploring their place in their world and our world, and using blogging. And I firmly believe they [...]

A Canadian politically conservative publication called The Report, has ceased publication. The transition is being made from publishing to advocacy. I’m sorry to see it go, it had a long run of 30 years.
I’m genuinely sorry to see Colby Cosh out of a job, it goes with the territory but it still sucks pavement.
I [...]

In praise of women bloggers…..moving blogging past the gifted geeks.
I think of it as a bunch of cavemen sitting around inventing the wheel. They loved to talk radius. They loved to talk diameter. They loved their wheel. They painted cave paintings of their wheel on the wall. Looked about as interesting as those pictures that [...]

The Lord came to Noah in Canada in the year 2003. Earth was wicked and over-populated. The Lord instructed Noah to rebuild the Ark and save two of every living thing along with a few good humans.
“Here’s the blueprint,” said the Lord. “Hurry – in six months I start the rain for 40 [...]