Reality Check

| March 17, 2011

While representing a bottomless pit of unreality, the internet can still be relied on as a source of Reality and Truth for those prepared to unflinchingly see Nature as She is, and not filtered through rose coloured glasses. The only way the lion will ever lay down with the lamb is so it can be […]

Mental Fallout From a Nuclear Clusterfuck

| March 13, 2011

The damage control dweebs who frame the wordage spoken by media talking heads have been outdoing themselves with the  bag of shit the recent earthquake in Japan has handed to the nuclear power plant industry. A couple days ago I heard a reporter explaining that to cool an overheating reactor core, officials at one plant […]

One Man’s Fish Is Another Man’s Poisson

| March 9, 2011

Every day a new “study”. Yesterday I read a blog article celebrating the health benefits of coffee consumption. I don’t drink anywhere near as much coffee as I used to, but that came about by a process of evolution rather than conscious thought about what caffeine might or might not do to me.I particularly enjoyed […]

Spring

| March 6, 2011

Oddly enough, this poem was born from an intention to write something with a pretty beginning that set the reader up for a funny punch line involving the way Spring unveils just how much frozen dog shit has been slumbering under the snow and ice in our yard, and that blessed day when Nature does […]

Some Fallout From My “Bullied by the Nova Scotia SPCA?” Article

| March 3, 2011

All comments directed to my blog are subject to being moderated by me. I make a point of encouraging both positive and negative observations from my readers, and will never filter out comments just because they aren’t favourable to me or my subject matter, but what I will not tolerate is anyone who comments for […]

Bush Skills Don’t Come Easy

| February 25, 2011

Growing up with a burning interest in living safely and well outside of the comforting arms of “civilization”, I spent a lot of time learning and mastering my skills one at time so I knew they wouldn’t fail me when I needed them to live. More than half a century worth of winters down the […]

Opportunity Knocks But Once (Arguably My Most Offensive Post Yet)

| February 23, 2011

Binary code is straight forward. 1 or 0. On or off. Black or white. Love Justin Bieber or hate Justin Beiber. There are no shades of grey. I don’t get a heart throb vibe from this kid at all, but then I was brought up on the premise that the true definition of a male […]

You Can Stick the Potty Dance Up Your Ass

| February 9, 2011

This has been annoying me for a while because the way it’s marketed has to be among the top 3 worst concepts in advertising. Your kid is old enough to be out of diapers but not yet clear of the need for absorptive body armor. He quietly and politely advises you that he needs to […]

Not Today

| February 8, 2011

H. L Mencken wrote, “Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.” Every day I get exposed to what oozes into public view from under the rock that is Ottawa I revisit those words. I sporadically manage to sideline Stephen Harper for varying periods of time. Last summer’s painful foray into Canada’s […]

Every Major News Event Has Its Own Talking Head

| February 4, 2011

Remember Gulf War One, where the army of George the First sallied forth to throw Iraq out of Kuwait? One of the things I remember most about that epoch was the inevitability of the Truth According to Wolf. Yes, I’m talking about Wolf Blitzer, he of the immaculately trimmed beard and seemingly limitless availability on […]