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A bit of poetry to sooth our nervous souls. Happy Thanksgiving, BTW. (It does, of course, remain to be seen how happy it can be.) A Ballad of Baseball Burdens by Franklin Pierce Adams (1912) The burden of hard hitting. Slug away Like Honus Wagner or like Tyrus Cobb. Else fandom shouteth: “Who said you […]
Lynton Crosby. Most of us heard his name for the first time in early September. He is a Lord Voldemort of political professionals, a master of the dark arts who specializes in ripping apart tenuous bonds between neighbours and there, in the vacuum, systematically works the “divide and conquer” algorithm until the big problem of […]
Indie songwriter, Ryan Adams, has “re-imagined” Taylor Swift’s entire last album, 1989, and now has seven tracks on Billboard Hot Rock Tracks, all Taylor Swift material. He has landed on the chart only three times in his entire 20-year career. Oh, by the way, he’s a big fan. Arthouse music critics are hopping on board […]
I’m not really anybody. For demographic purposes you could segment me as a 50ish single woman with two children in their 20s, a self-employed professional living in downtown Toronto. I have no pension, no big home to sell and no expectation of a family inheritance. I’ll leave it up to you to decide if that […]
If you’ve ever seen your father cry, you can probably still remember it. I saw my father, a war veteran who served on a minesweeper in WWII and who would be 93 this year if he had not drowned in 1985, cry exactly twice, although I don’t know if you could call it crying per […]
Baseball has its many charms whether your home team is winning or not. For the baseball fan, the season starts in April and ends in October, and during that time, someone’s home team somewhere is winning and, what with television and the Internet being what it is today, you can actually see the great teams […]
Ask anyone on the street the one thing they know about what makes a deserving charity and they are likely to say it’s the one is spending less on overhead, “like uh, 10 or 15 per cent or something like that.” Canadian charities are getting stuck with the number 15. A “good” charity doesn’t spend […]
It will not come as a surprise to anyone who sees and hears TV or radio that the island of Newfoundland, and a chunk of Labrador, is in a time zone of its own — Newfoundland Standard Time. The island is three and a half hours from Coordinated Universal Time (CTU) or what used to […]
(May 13, 2015) Not having had a podium finish all year, Red Bull Team Principal, Christian Horner, has defined his team’s season thus far with his non-stop whinging about the inferiority of the Renault engine. It culminated with him saying after the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday that, because of Renault, the 2015 season was […]
Prologue Elizabeth May’s intention in her speech to the Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner on the weekend was to run with some edgy humour. She’s totally capable of it. She can be funny and she is smart. Sadly for Ms. May, it came across as all edge and no humour. Your Working Girl can empathsize with […]
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