the woodshed

Trudeau : Yeah, well there's a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can sa...

It appears the Truck Nuts are about to get a lesson in unintended consequences. While they roll around Ottawa, honking their air horns, de...

There's dumb, and then there is People's Party of Candidate racist anti-vax dumb. Notorious meathead Mark Friesen, despite having a ...

Well, now this was inevitable: gofundme withholding $4.5 million in "protest convoy" funds raised through site until plan presente...

I am so heartily sick of editing stories about how local business owners feel that the public health regulation "go to far" or t...

I watched a terrific old western tonight on Prime Video. The Unforgiven, starring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn, directed by John Hust...

Conservative leader Erin O'Toole thinks the 87 percent of Canadians who are vaccinated should make allowances and accomodate the tiny mi...

Probably not. Not if people continue to be obsessed with complaining about personal inconvenience instead of looking at the bigger picture. ...

Christmas movies have been a thing since there have been movies. Some, like the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol starring Alastair Sim or F...

  “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal loaves of b...

It must seem like Armageddon has arrived on Canada's west coast. After last week's flooding and landslides, the province is now faci...

Reading a story like this one https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan/toddler-with-spina-bifida-another-lesson-for-health-minister natural...

With apologies to Frank Oz, whom I'm sure smells good and has a light touch. This made me laugh a lot https://www.newyorker.com/magazin...

I've been off work for a a couple of days due to an eye injury (scratched cornea, if you -like my employer - feel you must know) but I w...

Tweet I'm watching Casablanca for the elevntry-seventh time and I'm reminded of the profound conversation I had with my unilingual...

Tweet I've been laid up with an eye injury for a few days and this has been stuck in my head. I'm not sure which version is better...

After all, if one if one is going to to drink, one might as well do it right.   This is great book of stories of famous drunken hellraising ...

Well, it appears I've been kicked off Twitter, so I guess it's goodbye micro-blogging and hello again macro blogging -- or as we use...