The Optimism of a Wedding
My former colleague Leslie James married his love, Maryann, yesterday in a lovely and sweet ceremony in downtown Toronto.  …
General
Things That Don’t Make Sense To Me
The California Supreme Court upheld a ban on gay marriage. …
The Most Vulnerable Among Us
After 42 days of faint hope, confirmation that abducted 8 year old Tori Stafford is indeed dead is like a tiny knife to the heart.  She became “our” little girl as we got to know her and worry for her. …
Incompetents at the Controls
The deadly consequences of putting mediocre workers in important positions are illuminated in the freshly released transcripts of the conversation between the pilot and copilot of the doomed flight at Buffalo in February. These fools crashed a plane into a home, killing 50 people. In hindsight, it’s all so obvious and almost predictable. …
Ixnay on the Ompliments-cay!
A few blogs back I waxed on about the city’s forestry department and its efficiency. They even came and picked up the remnants of our huge, dead tree before last weekend. For an 8 man department, they’re pretty good. For us, at least. We learned that some people have been waiting for months for them to tend to their deceased trees. We got lucky. But I digress. …
M-O-T-H-E-R
M is for the muffins she baked for my health. …
Pretentious Intentions
I read a review yesterday of the new Angels and Demons movie. It stars Tom Hanks and is based on another best-seller by The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown. …
Ad Nauseum
“I ALWAYS find it funny that so much skin-cream advertising features, like, Jessica Alba. She’s gorgeous and 12!” — Brooke Shields to More Magazine. …
Suspicious Minds
About 300 motorcycle riders rode to Woodstock yesterday in support of missing Tori Stafford. …
The Name of the Flu
This irks me as a broadcaster and as a person. …
Celebrity Voices for a Worthy Cause
Filmmaker Ed Burns and supermodel Christy Turlington never became Edsty or Chrisward or, in short, the kind of star-powered couple that the tabloids feed on. …
Swine Flu Fears
The swine flu doesn’t scare me! …
Bullied by Teens
I had just started down my street to go get my doggie pal Echo for a walk when some idiot kids in a passing vehicle tossed a full pop can at me, narrowly missing me, and spraying me with ginger ale. The can struck the sidewalk as I fixed my eyes on the speeding car (and heard the cackling from within) and repeated the license plate number out loud, over and over, until I could get my Blackberry out of its holster and write the number down. …
More Grammatical Infractions
I was on a slow drive to nowhere for a while yesterday morning. …
Suckered In
Listening to Tucker and Taz on the FM96 morning show the other day, they yakked about a photo on their webpage of a wee tree that supposedly grew in a Russian man’s lung. …
Whither The Bee?
What has happened to the humble bumblebee? …
Heavy Hearts For Little Tori
Where is 8 year old Tori Stafford? …
Do As I Say, Not As I Do
The London Downtown Business Association is defending its decision to hire a Toronto firm to promote doing business in London. Apparently the word “irony” is lost on the organization. …