With the earth warming and our summers becoming more hot and dry, why isn’t the sun evaporating more water from the oceans and making it rain more? Why are fire hydrants and signposts irresistible to dogs? Why is it the moment you get to the room where you needed to do something, you can’t remember …
Young Sheldon
YOUNG SHELDON - 2017 CBS – TV sitcom - Meet the Coopers, the family from Texas that produced Sheldon. There are those who will already recognize the name Sheldon Cooper (as played by Jim Parsons) as the quirky self-absorbed genius from the Big Bang Theory (2007-2019). In the Big Bang Theory Sheldon is more annoying …
Vive le Québec libre!
Kanadoodle's federal government spends about 2.4 billion dollars a year to promote bilingualism and ensure that everyone in Kanadoodle has a right to be misunderstood in either the French or English language (and that doesn’t even count the added consumer costs of bilingual product labeling). As a result, and in true Kanadoodle fashion, this has …
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn, William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2021 - ‘The Imitation Game’ is the movie that introduced many people to the story of Bletchley Park during WWII. The group of ‘boffins’ and assorted geniuses at Bletchley included Alan Turing, who developed a computer that broke the Nazi military codes and likely helped shorten the …
The Outlander by Gil Adamson
The Outlander by Gil Adamson, House of Anansi Press, 2007 - It begins in the frontier west - the age of horse and buggy with a widow in flight. She’s young and on the run after having killed her husband. She’s barely keeping ahead of two armed and dangerous looking men – her brothers-in-law. We …
In Praise of Anti-Vaccers
I saw a posting a few days ago about someone in ‘Murica who had a serious medical emergency but couldn’t find a hospital to go to. There was no room for him as all the wards were full of unvaccinated people who had COVID. There’s a constant stream of news about the many people whose …
Election Kanadoodle – the Race Through Wonderland
It is an endless source of wonder that the media in Kanadoodle appears obsessed with having the voters elect either the Libelous or Consumptive Parties. In the current race, the two parties are neck and neck with the only role envisioned for the other parties is the possibility that they could step on those necks …
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And They’re Off – Part 2 – Election Kanadoodle!
The Consumptive Party has been pretty quick out of the starting gate with Erring O’Fool touting a set of campaign promises that makes Tinker Bell’s fairy dust seem inadequate. One million jobs in one year, tax free Christmas, huge increases for health care and a balanced budget. In the first place, we don’t know if …
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AND THEY’RE OFF!
Yes! Our glorious Prime Ribber, Dustbin Truthless, has dropped the writ and set the hot air election balloon flying over Kanadoodle. By the time the election is over, the average Kanadoodlian will have heard enough hot air to melt the polar icecap. Talk about global warming. As usual, anything promised during an election is about …
AFGHANISTAN – WHY?
Watching the news footage of the debacle unfolding at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan, I can’t help seeing it through a lens of historical déjà vu. US policy in China through WWII was aimed at training and equipping Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government so they could provide an effective counter to the Japanese in this theatre …
Richard's Left Bank 