We need to vote on this. Is the paint the moustache and glasses on the famous person thing - like this - the funniest joke in the world or not? I say yes. Folks will say this is defacement of property. Folks will say this is disrespect. But is there no something to be said for the deflation of …

“[Ed.: I usually keep the two worlds of GX40 and A Good Beer Blog separate but this post this morning seems apt for sharing.]”  •  Ever since I picked up a couple annual editions of the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, I have been wondering why such a thing does not exist …

Arther recollects the emails he sent and received on 9/11 but did not retain. It reminded me that I have lost or, recently, abandoned sets of email three times. The first was an error of cleaning up a hard drive, the second was turning off an intranet and the hird a deliberate closing of an …

It is a funny thing in the Canadian character that we love to be mentioned, to be thanked as a nation. It is good to do something good, for sure - but sometimes I think we would get all gooey over being over-praised for a smallish thing than be proud in an achievement despite no much notice being …

I feel that I am not doing something right as I do not care much about the CBC lockout either way. Coming on the heels of the boring NHL lockout and my indifference as to the appointment of the next Governor General as well as not a blip in my life when the Canadian Medical Association supports …

We were sitting around yesterday talking. I blame the holiday as all this talking and thinking stuff is generally a source of nothing but trouble. You sit on a beach contemplating the sand, then clams to come, then the sound of the waves though the sand and then you don't really think about any …

I think this is a poor headline. I am not offended by it so much as disappointed by it as a proud holder of a twenty year old BA in English. Please compare and contrast in your comments as always.  •  The headline strikes me as historically inaccurate. The use of the atom bomb was not a …

Being a big free speechification kind of guy, I love bumper stickers and their nouveau cousin the magnetic bumper ribbon. I think anyone should not only be free but encouraged to say whatever they want all over their car, their bodies, their front lawn. So enamoured indeed are we that, briefly, a …

So much for the softie Europeans ganging up to capture the 21 July bomber clique. Of course, the UK and Italy are the members of Old Europe which act like New Europe so that has to be taken into account if we are to abide by the words and logic of the prophet Rumsfeld - remember him?  •  But I …