To worry is to be. To be is to worry.
Rob Ford, the mayor of my hometown, Toronto, wants all new public transit projects to go underground. He campaigned on that promise. Some members of city council are pushing back on that, saying that we can’t afford all of those subways. Rather than burying the new Eglinton “Crosstown” light rail line for its full length [...]
You’ve heard the term “hard-driving,”? right? According to Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary it means, “intensely ambitious, energetic, or hardworking.”? That pretty much conforms with my understanding of the term. I’ve always thought that a hard-driving person is someone who is an unflagging go-getter. However, maybe there’s another definition of hard-driving that hadn’t occurred to me until [...]
If you haven’t heard about this, you’re going to think I’m making it up. Google it. You’ll find it’s true. I read in the paper this morning that the Fox network, that bastion of good taste and high culture, is working on a new reality show, Someone’s Gotta Go. The incorrect English aside, this is [...]
I just saw a news item about a guy in Iowa who went hunting and got shot in the leg at close range by his dog. Here’s the scoop: The guy shot a bird, put his shotgun down and went to fetch his freshly killed bird. (I guess his dog doesn’t do fetch.) The guy’s [...]
If you believe in newspaper horoscopes then you must believe that your life will follow a path that is very similar to the one followed by other people who were born on the same day of the year as you were. If this turns out to be true, then women who are expecting babies on [...]
“They” say that the average human uses only about 10% of his or her theoretical brain capacity. I believe that. It goes a long way toward explaining the current state of television programming.
It’s time for us to tell the airlines to stop showing us that idiotic seat belt demonstration at the start of each flight. It’s clearly intended solely for extreme simpletons. The way I see it, if there is anyone who is so dim-witted that, after all of these decades of experience with car and airplane [...]
Walking around downtown Toronto, I approached an intersection, Yonge and Dundas, that is one of the city’s busiest in terms of both pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Drivers passing through are not allowed to make any turns at any time of the day or night. This restriction is clearly marked on several easily visible signs. In [...]