It was a grey old day the other day when I dallied on the other side. But I took the opportunity to stop at all the local history plaques I passed, the car being devoid of those who would complain. Click for more detail of these ones between Alex Bay and Ogdensburg. That's Canada on the other side …

A year has passed since I wrote this summarizing what I wrote over the previous years. While my point of view is pretty much the same, it's less intense. Too many intervening events, I suppose: SARS, tsunami and Katrina, as well as fostering again and our own growing up. But I took part in an …

Much in the news about the Soviet era bombers again floating around international airspace. Apparently all that windfall oil revenue that is floating into Alberta is also floating into Russia - mention that next time a Calgarian gives you the lecture on the moralnomic superiority of western …

I got a million of them. Name it!

We happened upon the site of the torture and deaths of Messrs. Boyd and Parker, circa 1793 today making our way north down the Genesee valley. Wikipedia has a somewhat biased opinion:  •  “Native American raids in Upstate New York compelled General George Washington to send General John Sullivan …

There's that reference to the flying of the Red Ensign that I might have been thinking about last Friday - the Harper government decided to fly it at Vimy year round despite that being against the rules of protocol:  •  “Prime Minister Stephen Harper, after lobbying by some veterans groups …

Of all the "-isms", extremism is the best. Mainly because it means nothing but also because in the 1990's...or was it due, like so much, to Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure that extreme became a positive. Anyway, Nixon was against it and had the CIA rooting it out in Canada in the 1970s right …

An interesting week. The Red Sox have gotten back in gear and gotten back into the groove as the Yankees again falter. Summer is now here which means it will be a bit colder this weekend compared to last. Gary reports a tornado yesterday from the cold front that gave us hail up here. That was the …

The shift from snow to having a lawn to mow is startling. I may already be behind.  •  Update: Scots election chaos.  •  Please note two key differences between me and Mike.  •  I decided this May Day would be the day we should thank a great unheralded socialist of the past. The socialist dream we …