Remember when talking about the weather was a euphemism for something between being intensely dull to sensibly steering clear of controversial topics? Intersting story in the NYT this morning about the US channel the Weather Network and how the dullest station on the TV is now coping with …

I do not particularly like radishes but I am glad they are there. They will pop out of the ground whatever the conditions well before anything else. Maybe it's because they give you both the false senses that you are good at something and that you have a treat to look forward to...even though a …

I listened to this NPR report on Afghanistan on the drive home. Why do we not hear this stuff in Canada? Oh, maybe you do...I stopped listening to Canadian news media a while ago. Not as many banjo transitional interludes bits between the reports.

It has been a week of reflection. Every birthday is a big one but I think the multiples of eleven are more important than the multiples of ten. What we face beyond eleven has much to do with 22 and 33. Each is past the point of return or at least kidding ourselves. It was also a week to consider …

There are only seven or eight days like this. The day of the stuttering digits. Was there anything special about 1974, 1985 or 1996? I certainly did not have a photo of Sid Smith, Leafs Captain for the 1955-56 season. Now I do.  •  I had no idea Eric James McCormack, the guy from Will and Grace …

The only time I have ever had the Don Imus show on was when I left the radio WFAN on all night. It is a weird show and that essentially because it is unfunny. And not just in its current embarrassment for using a racial slur so much as the second year undergrad quality of the slur and all the …

There is a feature about the jump NPR's This American Life is making from radio to TV in this morning's screen-paper. Any Canadian over a certain age can tell you that this bears risks but perhaps Mr. Glass will not be Mr. Gzowsky, the sainted latterly less than interesting Canadian radio icon who …

Interesting theological news this week about certain goings on at something called something like the Miracle Channel:  •  “At the heart of the debate are statements by on-air hosts during past fundraising drives. In one of the most controversial examples, a host told viewers in 2004 to cash in …

What can I say? It is mid-February which ought to be named something else. Like bleaksville or un-summer. Nearby Oswego - where we go - is getting hammered with snow this week (over 80 inches so far this week) and we sit north of them hoping the snow band doesn't flick north again.  •  I have …