A friend, no star-spangled admirer of all things American, just returned from Washington D.C. asking why our capital is so dingy compared to theirs. I fear the answer is a commitment to mediocrity, a passion for the bronze. Click here to read the rest.
Heartbleed scares me. Internet weaknesses really are big news, unlike a lot of things that get headlines. So our reaction scares me even more. Click here to read the rest.
Weird. Britain’s Daily Telegraph says Rome faces bankruptcy. Oh well.Back to what great thing politicians are going to do for us next.
When I hear the constant fracas over energy policy in Canada, from pipelines to rising hydro bills to fracking to windmills, I want to nuke the whole discussion. No really. I want to settle it with nuclear power, the energy of the future in the past. Click here to read the rest.
The deadly derailment in Lac-Megantic dramatizes the hazards of carrying oil by train. But such accidents are very rare and no form of transport is entirely safe. So we should be asking not whether trains should carry oil but how much oil they should carry instead of pipelines. Click here to read the rest.
The B.C. NDP face plant was so bad they'll be getting sympathy cards from the Toronto Maple Leafs. Almost the only consolation is they fell on the pollsters and pundits confident they'd win. So what went wrong? Click here to read the rest.