October 2018
Election postmortem – what you see is …
what you get, who you are, and what you deserve (5 minute read) Good morning to everyone who lives in the 444 Ontario municipalities that voted yesterday and woke up this morning to a Read more...
Double, double, toil and trouble …
fire burn and politics bubble – until we stop drinking witches' brew and vote incumbents out (4 minute read) It's simple. Change means change. Don't re-elect anybody. It's folly. It's drinking the same witches Read more...
The most important four-letter word is …
vote – and you can use the other four-letter words to curse the outcomes if you don't vote Photo: Emily Howard Stowe (1831-1904) (9 minute read) Emily Howard Stowe was a great Canadian. She Read more...
August 2018
“I was raised to know that I should never …
sacrifice a principle for personal ambition." Who said it? (7 minute read) Oh, okay, that's an easy question to answer. But inherent in the answer is a much larger question and a much more Read more...
The inmates are running the asylum …
in every city hall and they keep banging their heads against the same wall, expecting a different outcome. That's insanity! (5 minute read) Albert Einstein (photo: ThoughtCo) The "banging heads ... insanity" Read more...
Charles Ponzi, Bernie Madoff, Donald Trump, Frank Underwood …
only one of these is not a real Ponzi scheme (2 minute read + links to three articles, a book, a blog and a video) Trump fatigue is a common aliment in infirmaries across Read more...