Politics and its Discontents

Not sure it is the best for Ontario taxpayers, though. If you have been following the news here in Ontario, you will know that the governmen...

Recently, I finished reading a book called The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson , b...

In my previous post , I mused about how much better society could be if we had fair and progressive taxation, taxation that forced those who...

As a matter of course, I allow myself one hour of television news per evening, 30 minutes local and 30 minutes of either American or Canadia...

Most nights, after watching a half-hour of American news,  my presence at the dinner table is suffused with cynicism and disgust. Tales of v...

If you read my previous post , you will know that the recent failure of a door plug in an Alaska Air flight was presaged by the air crashes ...

 I will be the first to admit that my viewing tastes are unusual for a man my age. I enjoy the off-kilter, the unusual, even the bizarre in ...