Lately, I’ve been beating my head against the wall with some regularity. I suppose it will feel good when I stop.
In the course of our daily work, I read an article by Brett Stephens — a Wall Street Journal columnist — debunking the science of climate change. By cherrypicking a fact here, offering a [...]
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My Climate Change Hangover
Posted in Being Green, Canada, Internet, Nova Scotia, Politics, United States on July 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s Been A Hard Day’s Night
Posted in Humor, Internet on July 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s the 54th day of Kristina’s parents’ two-week visit, Tropical Storm Cristobal is making everything a soggy mess, I’m starting to hate my job, and it just seems like the whole world could use a laugh.
So here’s Peter Sellers playing Sir Laurence Olivier playing Richard III. Enjoy!
The Good People at Philip Morris and Altria
Posted in Bad Businesses, Internet, Politics, United States on February 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
More than 600,000 people will die in North America this year by abusing legal and illegal drugs. The statistics can be broken down like this: 66 – 33 – 1.
Here’s what those statistics represent. Sixty-six percent of all the people who will die from using legal or illegal drugs will be killed by tobacco; 33 [...]
The Liar’s Diary
Posted in Internet, Life on January 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Liar’s Diary was written by Patry Francis and published by Dutton in 2007, with the Plume paperback hitting the shelves yesterday.
As is so often true in this sad, sweet world, Patry is suffering through chemotherapy right now, and so she can’t promote The Liar’s Diary. And so her friends are trying to make a [...]
Democratic Socialism: Road to Happiness or Race to Ruin?
Posted in Canada, Internet, Life, Politics, United States on January 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
If you like to debate politics with a group of passionate writers and the occasional intellectual, you could do worse than head over to Stephen Parrish’s blog. There, smart Democrats and Republicans debate Stephen’s Topics of the Week, whether it’s Mike Huckabee’s frightening Brand of Christianity, or The Real Miss America.
Obviously, with my flaming liberal [...]
Atlantic Equine Massage
Posted in Internet, Nova Scotia on January 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I had to resist the urge to ask her how she gets such a big animal to lie on such a little table, but otherwise our meeting went fine.
Jess McLoughlin needed a web site, and she wanted me to do it.
McLoughlin was born in the UK, and she’s till paying the interest on her accent, [...]
Six Things
Posted in Internet, Life on January 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Colleen tagged me, asking me to write six random things about myself. And then I am to return the favor.
I am happy to comply, to start writing again. In fact, I still plan to tag a few people down the road, as I plan to answer an ancient tag from Nancy at Soliloquy from over [...]
If I were president…
Posted in Internet, Politics, United States on December 27, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Ben & Jerry, ice-cream makers extraordinaire, have a terrific little diversion on their web site that allows you to assume the role of President and Congress to allocate discretionary spending for the US federal budget.
As it now stands, fully 51 per cent of that money, $438 billion (remember: this is just discretionary spending) goes to [...]
Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary!
Posted in Housekeeping, Internet on December 15, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Just a short housekeeping note. One week ago, Smart Like Streetcar celebrated it’s first anniversary amid much fanfare and popping of Champagne corks.
OK, OK… so I sort of forgot about it. I knew it was getting close, but one day pretty much fades into the next, and the moment passed.
I started SLS to learn how [...]
NaBloPoMo, Day 30
Posted in Housekeeping, Internet on November 30, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I can’t say it was difficult posting every day during NaBloPoMo, for I seldom run out of things to say. That’s my blessing. And my curse.
But writing something that people might want to read for 30 straight days… That is an altogether more difficult task. I tried hard to talk about things that interest me [...]
