I was nine when the train hit the boy in grade two.
By the time we got to the tracks on our way to school, the police were there.
I realize now that mom held us back a bit, waiting to see the response.
The screech of a long freight train trying to stop has stayed with me.
Some [...]

It hasn’t been a good day in this world.
It is the last day of summer holidays in Moscow.
Initial reports say a female suicide bomber blew herself up outside a Moscow subway station. Other reports say it was a car bomb. At least 6 people are dead and over 20 wounded. 90 people died when two [...]

Environment Canada is a bit embarrassed.
People I know (including me) have been complaining this summer has been short, cold, and wet…the opposite of what forecasters with their computers and statisitics predicted.
This summer, it has been far worse. In fact, Mr. Verret said if he were to forecast the summer skill score, which won’t be crunched [...]

I don’t know who this congressman is.
I can only read who he says he is.
At this stage, I don’t think that matters.
He resigned yesterday afternoon.
There is a rule in politics not to repeat back an accusation for to Do so gives it leverage. Supposedly a good politican deflects.
I don’t know what this is…but from where [...]

Every once in awhile you read something on an issue or event that reads like letting your breath out.
Sometimes media simply overdoes things to death.
Lots of other important things are going on, but tunnel vision, money, buzz and the demands take over. In the US debate is lively and loud in politics and the way [...]

ar arr arrrr.
Nice summary from Sports Illustrated.
BEST FANS: Hard to choose. The mighty, tightly packed Lithuanian basketball fans, dressed in their country’s green, yellow and red, resembled the produce section at a grocery store. The Japanese, in matching samurai garb, were vocal and organized at baseball. And then there was the overweight Brazilian beach volleyball [...]

Once again, The Washington Post published its yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for various words.
And the winners are…
1. Coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have
gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having [...]

Once again, The Washington Post published its yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for various words.
And the winners are…
1. Coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have
gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having [...]