I don’t use marijuana. I have reasons why I don’t, and those reasons aren’t superseded by the fact that I travel from jurisdictions where pot is illegal to jurisdictions where it isn’t. I’ll be going into Washington State in a couple of weeks, for instance, and I know I’ll be greeted there by big billboards
The Cleveland Indians baseball team has announced that, after the 2018 season, it will retire the ‘Chief Wahoo’ logo, that grinning, shifty-looking cartoon that’s disgraced the team’s operations since 1947. It’s hard to figure out why any sports team would have ever wanted such a logo; insulting indigenous people doesn’t seem the most direct way
A couple of years ago, in Florida, a very large man wearing a dashiki and a prayer cap approached me before a speech and asked if I would please, please stress to the audience that Islam is a peaceful religion that isn’t in any way represented by the atrocities of extremists. “The terrorists aren’t Muslim,”
There’s been something terribly familiar in Donald Trump’s current campaign to make the unthinkable thinkable; his aggressive talk about the possibility of war (even nuclear war) against North Korea and Iran is reminiscent of George W. Bush’s pumping of public opinion to convince his own war-weary population of the necessity of attacking Iraq. The process
The song says “There’s no place like home for the holidays.” For our family, because of our endeavours, that statement has been more predictive than descriptive. Most Christmases, we’re at no place like home for the holidays. However, this Christmas just past, we managed, by extraordinary effort, to gather at our remote, wild BC home.
