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Video of the Week
Posted: 2022 Jan 20
Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2022 Jan 20
Music of the Week
RIP, Meatloaf.
Posted: 2022 Jan 23
Words of the Week
‘‘It is a monotonous memory which keeps us in the main from seeing things as splendid as they are." - G.K. Chesterton quoted by James V. Schall, SJ in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 2 # 8 (July-August 1999)
Source: John Robson's Wish I'd Said That
Posted: 2022 Jan 20
Tweets of the Week
1/ The Liberal gov’t says handing over the Winnipeg lab docs to Parliament would undermine national security.
This is the world turned upside down. The opposite is true.
It’s the government that’s undermined national security - not Parliament.#cdnpolihttps://t.co/PXA579gDgB
— Michael Chong 🇨🇦 (@MichaelChongMP) January 21, 2022
My Tweets
Category Archives: Officialdom
A Great 2021
Says who? Continue reading
Fast: Just Try to Pick It
Who makes (up) these rules, anyway? Continue reading
Flaggin’ It
A mathematical deep-dive into national emblems. Continue reading
The Drum Roll, Please
An exciting announcement, on behalf of the Government of Canada. You heard it here first. Continue reading
Posted in Laughing Frequently, New Perspectives, Officialdom, Photos of Flora
Tagged Community, Other Plants
6 Comments
Security Theatre?
Somehow I don’t feel any safer. Continue reading
Posted in Officialdom, Thinking Broadly
Tagged Critical Thinking, Trains & Boats & Planes
12 Comments
Who You Gonna Call?
I’ve been robbed. Call the police. Continue reading
Open Sesame?
Waiting in line at a border crossing, I am reminded of, and inspired by, a classical scene from a classic fantasy novel: The Lord of the Rings. Continue reading
What Do You Mean by That?
Razor sharp after a midnight departure from Vancouver and 15 hours in the air, I squint again at Question 9. The series of 11 questions had started with a seemingly innocuous lead-in: “Are you bringing into Australia . . . … Continue reading
Stick. String. Nerve. Not.
As a communicator, my default assumption is that a situation gone bad — whether at home or work — is all about the medium selected, the words chosen, the tone used. But the failure here was not one of communication, but of nerve. Continue reading
