Back to school. Equinox. Equal nights. The Fair. Then longer nights. Harvest moon. Nip in the air. Leaves turning. Getting the garden in. Raking leaves. Changing the clocks. Stews. I think I really hate the fall.  •  There is no question that these are not the most troubled times.Don't you have …

That must be it. He must have never sat in a bail hearing and watched the cops, judge, Crown attorney and defence counsel ask the accused if he has a gun. Otherwise, the usually sensible Mr. Martin would never write this:  •  And there is a paradox that has never been refuted with any common sense …

Not quite "peace at last" or "we shall never surrender" is it:  •  “After 15 years, opposition to the long-gun registry is stronger than it has ever been,” Mr. Harper said Wednesday after the 153-151 vote in the House of Commons. “With the vote tonight, its abolition is closer than it has ever …

Oh, me-oh my-oh. This is the tune that pops into my mind when I read about political overlords rummaging through personal files, trying to ram though deregistration against the police chief and victims' rights elites and some bright light's plans to round them up and jail them all.  •  At least …

Not sure that I made it, am making it or will make it as I am writing this the night before. Who calls 8 am meetings? Keeners, that's who. I once was required to get to 7 am meetings. People apparently thought they were dairy farmers. Nothing was accomplished in those early hours. It never is. I …

I had no idea. The National's "Bloodbuzz Ohio". Heard on NPR's World Cafe.

Great coverage of the NY-23rd by Brian Mann on NCPR's blog In the Box last night, especially his personal observations at the gathering of unsuccessful Tea Party candidate Mr Hoffman's faithful:  •  Doug Hoffman himself refused to emerge and speak to reporters or to the handful of supporters who …

NCPR plays tribute to Led Zep all month with special Zeppy programming, especially on The Beat Authority. This is a great way to hide the fact that frost is a coming and will be followed by winter's gales. Zep is sweater weather music, born of damp on the walls and now listened to by the warm glow …

OK, maybe more a flue than a fever... a head cold maybe. But with the main issue in this nation being the PM's alarming neediness - can you blame me? Thank God there is always an election going on down south. But I had no idea that the US parties pass on certain districts:  •  the Republicans will …

Cross reference.

Things were going along so well there for a while. It was warm, hot even. Tomorrow? 65F, wind and rain. Fall. Football season. Sweater weather. Root vegetables. Stews. Raking. Putting away the garden chairs. Stews. Stews are anti-summer. Within weeks I will crave them. Is this how the moulting …

Lawrence Martin in the Globe this morning has it exactly on point:  •  ... if he’s to be credible, Mr. Ignatieff needs more than rhetoric. He needs a comprehensive Bring Back Democracy plan. He needs it, and so do we. Someone’s got to get serious about this country’s drift from what was once a …