Randy | October 12, 2015
When in this world’s unpleasing youth Our godlike race began, The longest arm, the sharpest tooth, Gave man control of man …. ~ Rudyard Kipling, The Benefactors While I will stop short of joining the Esteemed Mr. Kipling in granting the Human species the epithet “godlike”, I admit to absorbing no […]
Randy | October 3, 2015
Tonight’s Dark Sentiment is a Welsh documentary from 2007 that touches in many places on material I visited in 2010 – the first year this series every saw the dark of night. I therefore recommend that you revisit those heady days of yore with Dark Sentiments – Day 15 and Dark Sentiments – Day 23, […]
Randy | July 11, 2015
This poem was inspired by an event that occurred just last night on the south shore of Nova Scotia. Symbols Three Dogs and I went out last eve’ To fertilize the yard, Yet soon I saw my comrades pause, Each silently aguard. Up stream upon the river Was where each had set their gaze. So […]
Randy | June 14, 2015
Today’s title is a fragment of the sentiment spoken by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto upon learning of the successful raid on Pearl Harbour: “In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after […]
Randy | June 12, 2015
Gildor Inglorion: “That Gandalf should be late, does not bode well. But it is said: ‘Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.’ The choice is yours: to go or wait.” Frodo Baggins: “And it is also said, ‘Go not to the elves for counsel, for they […]
Randy | April 19, 2015
For those of you who aren’t privy to the machinations of Canadian politics, our government is attempting to push through a piece of legislation that is widely held by the thinking population, including us LFMs, as a dangerous and intolerable assault on the rights and freedoms of Canadians, all presented as another one of those […]
Randy | April 3, 2015
“The Knight Errant is a large painting in which the figures are almost life size. When shown at the Royal Academy in 1870, it was accompanied by a text of Millais’s own invention which was printed in the exhibition catalogue: ‘The order of Knights errant was instituted to protect widows and orphans, and to succour […]
Randy | March 4, 2015
For many years now, it has been with furrowed brow that I have observed the world as it applies to the work of professional law enforcement. My troubled mind comes from having had the extreme privilege of a career that has led me to know and work with a satisfying sample of cops – some […]
Randy | February 22, 2015
The involvement of Canada’s military services in the open warfare that has flourished since the events of 11 September 2001 has led to an unsurprising and historically inevitable outcome: Healthy people are dispatched on the mission. Some come back fine, some die before the end of their tour, while still others come back broken. Wars […]
Randy | February 16, 2015
“Humans, like metals, are malleable, and you can deform a sheet of metal with hammer-blows and then tap it out flat again. But any metallurgist will assure you that the whole sheet has changed, and only melting it down and rolling it again will undo it.” ~ Freedom & Necessity, Steven Brust & Emma Bull […]