Gender equality, sort of.
The British Columbia Government is finally paying for surgery that enables women who’ve always wanted to be men to realize…
Category: This Just In!
Happy Birthday.
Today is my friend’s birthday. One she shares with Jessica McClure and Kiera Knightly. Jessica was trapped in a well…
It’s a wrap.
It’s a wrap. British Columbia’s film industry is in trouble. Not because of anything we did wrong, but because the…
I’ll be back.
Bob Dylan sang that ‘the winner now shall later be last.’ In sports, a more modern version of the lyric…
Hot Chess.
Original thought is rare. Even our brightest and best try to form the future from the familiar; working with pieces…
That’ll be two Glocks and a Beretta
Who knew? What wild guess could possibly have seen Beyonce as the solution to Sandy Hook? Or Jay-Z going on-stage…
It’s the water.
There are two kinds of people: Lake people and Ocean People. How do you tell them apart? Easy. Lake People…
One should never be where one does belong.
Bob Dylan said it in ‘The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest.’ And Michelle Obama proved it at the…
A penny for your yachts.
The same government that questions the $5.95 Denny’s receipt I claimed as a business expense on my tax return is…
I love that scene.
The movies we remember are defined by the scenes we can’t forget. Take Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper discussing Sicilian…
Chose your weapon.
I guess that by now pretty much everyone has bought into Wayne Lapierre’s argument that the only effective counter to…
Yes and no.
We find ourselves under constant pressure to keep it short. To say as much as possible in just a few…
The looming helium crisis.
We all agree that Sandy was nasty bit of weather. It was kind of like Katrina with rich people. And…
What’s in a name.
Mitt Romney named his rooftop riding dog ‘Seamus.’ The Celtic meaning is ‘one who grabs at the heel.’ Remember to…
The meaning of Felix.
Early morning Sunday, October 14, 2012. What the world needs now is for an Austrian who shares his name with…
Another heartbeat.
If you’re lonely, you’re not alone. In our Facebook Twitter world, feelings of isolation and disconnection are epidemic. People today…
Once more, Mitt vision.
I watch a lot of U.S. election coverage. Like everyone else, I try to read between the lines and see…
Bronze is the new Gold.
The following observation was written in the wake of the last Olympics and the usual rush of Canadian Bronze. It…
There are no words.
They are on the ferry from Victoria to Vancouver and they are old. He more than she. Are they returning…
Free Lance.
Here we go again. Jeff Novitsky and his crew of fumbling FDA ferrets are having another run at bringing down…