I could tell you the child's name. I could tell you how and maybe even when the virus shifted from human to human but why bother you with details. But in the end the snow falls outside, Oprah is on on a hundred channels and I got a fever. Fevered, I write. Next week its February.  •  I never knew …

It boggles the mind when you read things like this and understand they have a reasonable chance of being true:  •  Because of Mr. Chen’s skills, they are also a high expression of traditional Chinese noodle arts. Even a thousand years ago, there were late-night noodle shops in many Chinese cities …

Even as I type on a computer here in my basement, I have to now prepare to go downtown to my work computer in my warm office. I have a great office. Quiet and a little secluded. A great view and merry colleagues. OK, merry is a bit much but you get my drift. I like my job. Yet, there must be a …

A big day. An idea I have helped frame has turned into a 26 person meeting. Yesterday, too, I had to report on work to a multi-level meeting with about as many people. I sat next to someone who crossed borders to get there and who has a profession utterly different from mine. But we chatted about …

We are closer to February than December already. Time flies. The sun rises around when it did on November 20th. A month from the equinox. What does that have to do with this?  •  On Wednesday Cashman did not back away from his initial stance, saying he was opposed to the deal while also …

It has been a sad week. I still can't believe that lady grabbed the second clip of bullets and threw it away. When I learned of the shootings in Tuscon, we were on the road preparing for a family funeral. Ours was, however, a celebration of a tough life lived with grace. Not the tragic horror that …

There are things people in the public light say that just let you know what is or is not really going on inside. We don't have to go to that deep well that is Mel Gibson to find an example. I am reminded of Jacques Parizeau's blurt after losing the referendum on Quebec separation: "...it's true we …

Ben posted a link to Ms. Palin on Facebook and lest we leave Hans out of it, I link here, too. There are a few observations to this odd reaction to the killings in Arizona last weekend:  •  It is pretty clear that the murderer had an attack on a government official well planned which makes it …

The Old and Male makes a little too much of Ezra Levant's role in framing the "ethical oil" argument for the Harper government:  •  The “ethical oil” defence adopted by Mr. Harper and Mr. Kent echoes a notion advanced by conservative Calgary author Ezra Levant in his 2010 book, Ethical Oil: The …

So, the four hour drive that took six is over. And I am at the south west end of the big lake and not the north east one. I hate the 401 but love the 407. Bill me. It's worth it. The 407 is like driving on a 100 km long parking lot on a Friday night. Family gathering and we are sitting in a hotel …

The funniest thing? At the beginning of the game, TSN had a camera in the living room of the Prime Minister's house, the whole family gathered as it on a stage dressed in various reddish sweaters. Yet, during the five goal third period collapse, the camera never when back to their grim response to …