Oh, here’s a scary thought. It’s already 2014. I don’t even know what happened to the “naughts” or whatever we were going to get around to naming that decade. And now we’re a seventh of the way from the 20th to the 22nd century. Click here to read the rest.
Even The New York Times has noticed there’s something odd about Barack Obama lurching aimlessly from crisis to crisis like some leftover Halloween zombie unable to find any brains. Click here to read the rest.
At times like this, you’re sure glad Barack Obama is a uniter, not adivider, and used to be a professor of constitutional law. Think what harm a sneering hack in the White House might do at this worrisome juncture in America’s fiscal affairs.
Oh great. Last March the Quebec government adopted expensive new rules for seniors’ residences that are driving them out of business and leaving their elderly customers out of luck. And the clever politicians and bureaucrats never saw it coming. Click here to read the rest.
For Christians Easter Sunday is an eerie pause between Good Friday’s tumult and the even greater upheaval of Easter Monday, so quiet, C.S. Lewis says in the Narnia Chronicles, “you feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again.” For non-Christians it’s a chance to hunt coloured eggs and wonder idly whether trading a cosmic message of redemption for a bunny made of bad-tasting chocolate was quite the deal it seemed at the time. And whether there isn’t something to be said for the occasional unnaturally quiet day. Click here to read the rest.
[Correction: This column contains a stupid mistake. Christians of course believe the Resurrection occurred on Sunday not Monday. Mea culpa.]