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 [...]
We humans are idiots. Plain and simple, we are idiots. There are many examples that prove this point, but consider just one: many of us drink alcohol, often to excess. Doing so kills brain cells, increases the risk of certain cancers, damages our livers, leads to some forms of cardiovascular disease (although there are some [...]
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 [...]
It comes as no surprise that, with the growing attraction of the Internet, podcasts, specialty cable and satellite television, and ever more advanced online and offline video games, broadcast television network executives are worried about the potential for further declines in their audience numbers. “There are only 24 hours in the day and the more [...]
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 [...]