Entries Tagged as 'Rants'

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Pick on the Red Wings, not Detroit

I wrote a post the other day that drew a little bit of attention to our little corner of the internet. Who would have thought that unleashing amusing insults about another hockey team and finding great YouTube clips of players you really like would receive more attention than an earnest discussion about the future of [...]

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

You can't save something by chopping it into pieces

Soon we will return to juvenile rants about why the Detroit Red Wings are God’s gift to hockey. And whooo boy, they sure look the part these days.
It is, after all, springtime, and this is what we do every Spring.
But first, I read something today that helped clarify an idea I’d been wrestling with — [...]

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Get off the fence, Victoria (aka hipster travel writing)

I love nature. Hell, I’m a farm boy at heart, no matter how antsy I might get after going more than 36 hours without being able to check my email. I could wax poetic for several paragraphs about the power of clear skies and green spaces and the sheer, absolute wonder that some of the [...]

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Well, I'm back

It’s been a while. And that’s on me. For a multitude of reasons. The games that are supposed to be dirty had either peaked, gotten so filthy that it wasn’t fun anymore or were … well, just too depressing for words.
It’s pretty hard to top the combination of vacuous journalism, political intrigue and stump-dumb citizenry [...]

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Mmmmmm … tears

Like so many other Canadians, and citizens in countries around the world, I offer my profound thanks to the American electorate for making the right decision. After the past eight years, a lot of us doubted you could arise from what seemed a collective stupor in time to act to preserve the ideals of the [...]

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

The October Surprise?

There’s surely going to be a final act in this damned play, so let’s get on with it already.
I understand too much about the nasty rules of life’s overarching narrative to believe that the third presidential debate is over, Barack Obama has a large enough lead to coast home and that Senator John McCain — [...]