small fame in the globe and mail
So I got printed in this week’s Globe & Mail Challenge, where one had to devise a brief joke that begins in the traditional way with someone or something going into a bar. Here’s my entry: A gerund...
View ArticlePutting the rant back into intolerant
What’s with Canada’s eminently sensible newspaper The Globe and Mail carrying ads for far-right Colorado-based Focus on the Family? Are we getting so tolerant that we tolerate intolerance? The words...
View Articlesomething other than wind blows here
Dave Bidini‘s article in today’s Globe & Mail, An ill wind blows (now irritatingly hidden behind a paywall, but helpfully cached here) troubles me about what got through basic fact-checking: “The...
View Articlecanadian compact car
This was advertised in the Globe & Mail on the day I was born: My mum bought a second-hand Viva estate in 1975. We thought it was huge. The image is via the archive at Toronto Public Library. More...
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