OK, maybe not the TV but can I have the car? No, maybe the shoe rack. Yes, I can be master of the shoe rack.  •  “First, the father banned his 12-year-old daughter from going online after she posted photos of herself on a dating site. Then she allegedly had a row with her stepmother, so the father …

Don't get me wrong. I realize there are places expressing your opinion lands you in jail or worse. After all, I lived through apartheid, South American right-wing dictatorships and the Cold War. But the differences between speaking and publication in the pre- and post-Internet worlds have led to …

I don't usually get caught up in the bashing of various news sources. The Toronto Star gets its share of grief from folks with a variety of levels with incoherent thought - leaving the brighter stuttering when they see the error of their ways. But this column/article/piece, for me, is worth a bit …

About 35 years ago when George Carlin used to appear on TV's Sonny and Cher Show and things like that, he used to pretend he was doing a TV news anchor man reporting on quirky items - the sort of thing SNL ripped off a few years later. Once he told this joke: "Scientists have discovered that …

I don't particularly care for commenting on other bloggers, especially the self-promoting, in large part because much of what is written is so poorly thought out but this passage by Mr. Levant in his one-man ideological battle with the community is so awful in its revision of history that it is …

Begone, little man in blue who is in the midst of losing embarrassingly!!  •  Did you see? I saw because I took a two hour holiday at the end of Friday to ensure there was no way I would miss it. I didn't wear orange and I drank German beer but I was back in the arms of the great liberal republic …

The lilac has faded. Tulips are just a memory. It's really summer now even if the calendar denies it. Now is the time of mowing and sweating. The time of bug bites and knee scrapes. Of the valuing of shade and water and a radish. Of attempting home repairs you have no business doing.  •  You know …

I took no photos so that I could pay attention to the game. But the GX40 sound recording unit would have been a better choice as, if you are interested in hearing the sound of sides of beef being crashed into each other, international rugby could be your game. The game yesterday here in Kingston …

I garden but not as much as I should or could. It's good exercise, cheap and gets you tasty stuff. It's easy - I stuff bottles of olive oil with herbs I grow and use that all winter. I am a star. Apparently my hobby is taking off:  •  “Seed companies and garden shops say that not since the rampant …