Henry here. “‘Nice girl’ charged in biker murders,” screams a headline from The Canadian Press. The articles says in part: “The only woman among five people charged in the bizarre shooting deaths of eight bikers was a ‘nice girl’ in the ‘wrong place,’ ‘wrong time’ with the ‘wrong guy’ her former employer said yesterday.”
Nice people […]
Greetings all, Steve here. Well, I’ve just spent 5 days with the flu and I did almost nothing except watch t.v. I watched a lot of t.v. An enormous amount of t.v. Far Too much t.v. Innitially I was kind of thinking of it like an enforced vacation: As long as I was off work, […]
My grade 10 English teacher once set us looking for Irony In Reverse. I’m not sure that he really knew what he was talking about and I’ve always held the opinion ever since that there was no such thing as Irony In Reverse. Having just seen this column about how gossip columnist Jared Paul Stern […]
This old film of Gene Hackman describes how the government is preparing to save you in the event of an emergency. In light of Hurricane Katrina, the government is presumably still working on it.
Henry here. I must be becoming cynical. I see by The Associated Press this morning a headline that “China Executes Ex-millionaire.” That didn’t strike me as strange or bizarre, as China is theoretically a communist country where the odd millionaire might well end up on the chopping block.
But perhaps I wonder if his sin was […]
Henry here. Diets are the curse of many people’s lives. A friend once told me that apart from porn, recipes, diets and so forth are the most common thing on the web. Considering how many of us struggle with our weight, I think he may be right. I recently looked at an old tape of […]
We trained hard…but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised…I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.
Petronius […]
Greetings, Steve here. Just a quick post today, checking in with the conveniences that make modern living so enjoyable. Something for the modern man on the go.