I do not admire Bill Gates much. I find him rather aloof and terribly arrogant. Warren Buffet is much more than a tad hypocritical when he calls for increased taxes on the wealthy while his decade long argument with the IRS is a legal battle of attrition. Paul Allen is more my speed. But I [...]

You just knew I had to do it. I’m a masochist. I had to, it was inevitable. I couldn’t help myself. I braved the Art Gallery grounds where the smell of pot and body odor permeated the air driving passers by to wince and gag. This was between the afternoon and into the late evening [...]

The premise seems impossible, but it happened. A woman who previously thought she’d never be a mother, becomes very much pregnant and discovers she’s also dealing with aggressive cancer. Instead of chemotherapy, which likely would have saved her life–but could have certainly damaged the fetus, she elects to die so her baby would have the [...]

I never took to skating. I don’t know why, I just never did. Ask me to dribble with a soccer ball, boot a rugby ball or hammer a heavy bag, and I’ll do so joyfully. I was always a good tennis player. I’m okay at golf, but get bored to death by the back nine. [...]

Time flies. you hear that enough, and it’s not like we’ve not used it enough either. I remember my first Thanksgiving as a Dad of three. That was six years ago. Looking at three little kids and wondering what kind of world I’d brought them into was ominous. It still is, but you get what [...]

It did not require an extensive background in the law to determine that not only Amanda Knox didn’t belong behind bars, but too, the Italian justice system that miserably failed her, is a lavish travesty. The material evidence having been mishandled from the beginning and the trial being consumed with procedural errors, reasonable doubt was [...]

60 Minutes icon Andy Rooney, whom God affectionately refers to as ‘Andrew’, bid us farewell Sunday night. It was his last broadcast as the venerable news magazine’s Sunday night closer. Over the decades, Mr. Rooney has sought truth and fairness in reporting and presenting everything from the ‘Challenger Disaster’ to the contents of his glove [...]

Sorry about the delay in comment approvals. My program has gone a little screwy. Don’t know why, but my techs are working on it. Anyway, I’m assured all’s well and whatever glitches exist will be remedied by tomorrow. So… Andy Rooney says ‘So Long’…Christy Clark’s viral folly…Amanda Knox is freed (and justice served!)…the Chinese collapse [...]

As you’ve seen, particularly over the last month, I’ve been pounding away on a variety of topics and issues (often multiple posts per day)–most multi-faceted and hardly uncomplicated. This takes some energy (there’s the understatement of the year!) and I’m going to take a breather until Monday. Please feel free to comment as you wish. [...]

It was more than a case of tranquility lost and dignity vaporized. Far more than yet another painful example of the castrated Vancouver Police Department under current Chief Jim Chu and current Mayor Gregor Robertson–they had no presence for the first 45 minutes of the Vancouver Club mugging, it was an instructive lesson on how [...]