The neighbours (not their spelling) are holding elections on Tuesday next, and I can’t wait. Doesn’t matter who wins or loses. Just, please, let the attack ads end.
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Another odd juxtaposition of content on TV: the movie The Terminal and a news panel interview with a representative of our government, discussing proposed changes to the manner in which we treat refugees. Fact and fiction.
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In baseball, it’s referred to as a “double header”. In my workplace, the name is shorter: “Bad luck”. I happened to end up with some overtime duty, on Friday evening and again Saturday morning. Don’t worry for my health, as I still sleep nights, but this weekend will seem very short.
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Nothing like an afternoon of PBS to leave me completely worshipped out.
Marathon documentaries; I’ve been to war, I’ve sung the blues, I’ve wandered through houses of the architectural hoi-polloi. Today, we went to church, in all its solemn variations. America does have a religious bent (bet you didn’t know that, after all these years), in spite of an official separation of church and state. That’s your church from their state.
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IANAL (that’s newspeak for I Am Not A Lawyer). However, I Am A Canadian, and I now wish I had studied a minimum of criminal law. You know, just in case.
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The little I know of diplomatic protocol has me convinced that the term is synonymous with polite. There is that time that a man in a mitre slapped me on the cheek, but I’ve forgiven him. On the whole, any time the cream (fluff) of the political class get their fancy duds on, there will be a surfeit of bowing and scraping.
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Oh my, but the crazy talk is goin’ on round here. Talk might be cheap, but some folks really want to spend tax dollars like the pit was bottomless. Right now, it’s hockey fever, and the local fans want more than a seat by their big screen TV, if you know what I mean.
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Courtesy and common sense. Unrelated, but complementary. I watch what goes on around me and wonder.
Watching a rather large delivery truck trying to manoeuvre the limited space between the wall of my office building and the row of parked cars, I wondered why the whole process was taking so long. The driver, trying to back up with one hand on the wheel and the other on his precious cellphone attached to his ear, might have been the pivotal factor. Made me wonder how he would explain to a group of angry office workers if he’d dented their precious metal.
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Please, save us from governments that want to save us. The census question refuses to die, and I’m glad. In what strange altered state of mind did current officials decide that asking questions on a census form was intrusive?
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No time to waste. Get your silly request for funding into the hands of the local MP before the election is called.
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