At the Masters golf tournament “There’s a strict limit on the number of spectators and the waiting list for new attendees was so unwieldly they stopped taking applications in 1972… In August, 2000, I got a letter from the Masters folks telling me that the waiting list, closed 28 years earlier, was finally used up.”
George Brimmell in Ottawa Citizen “Citizen Weekly” April 4, 2004 (he did get in)
An election-night pundit “appeared to have had her hair fried for the occasion.”
John Doyle, “Television,” in Globe & Mail November 3, 2004
On Global News Radio 640 with Alex Pierson and John Mraz I discussed Ontario’s flirtation with anti-racist math, the right of private businesses to set their own policies on proof of vaccination, and complaints about a new Governor General whose bilingualism doesn’t involve French.
In my latest National Post column I express enthusiasm for freedom in Cuba… and Canada.
In The Interim I reflect on classic books on the vital topic of citizenship only to realize I can’t think of any.
“your fish is not fried fish till caught”
The Chorus in Aristophanes The Clouds
“Give your brain as much attention as you do your hair and you'll be a thousand times better off.”
Malcolm X (widely quoted online; I was first alerted to it in a paraphrase in the Ottawa Citizen March 7, 1999)
In my latest National Post column I say churches should not get tax breaks, not because of residential schools but because nobody should.