Randy | June 6, 2015
“I was born in 1957, and for Canadians of my generation, World Wars 1 and 2 can be compared to what can be said today of cancer, in that it would have been a difficult task during our formative years to swing the proverbial dead cat without hitting a member of a family that had […]
Randy | April 22, 2015
A year ago today, I wrote of a Man’s birthday, and how its occurrence at once delighted his Friends and dismayed his enemies as that of any True Man will. Well Goode Reader, I invite you to revisit that piece, placed here in honour of our Esteemed Friend Stephen F. Kaufman, and ask that you […]
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 18, 2015
It’s said that you must never suggest to a woman that she might be pregnant unless there is a baby coming out of her at that very moment. In a similar fashion, I would advise that while survival demands recognition of the potential defensive and offensive use of any object, however mundane, as a weapon […]
Randy | April 12, 2015
I recently came across an article published a couple days ago on a Gizmodo blog called Indefinitly Wild, and more specifically, one by Wes Siler titled What Knives You Can Carry Where In The United States. I don’t live in the United States, but notwithstanding that I found it to be a pretty good article […]
Randy | April 2, 2015
“For my own part, I’ve been around long enough to know the Winter just past as the normalcy of my childhood, when we kids were playing “king of the castle” flinging snowballs in defence of battlements built atop the lofty snowbanks thrown up by the plough that cleared the school parking lot, and this all […]
Randy | March 29, 2015
“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 […]
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 […]