Category Archives: canada

Belated Happy Father’s Day

June 20, 2012 – 2:58 am

Father’s Day has complemented Mother’s Day since 1910, although the holiday was unofficial for decades and Americans treated Father’s Day as a joke, until LBJ proclaimed the 3rd Sunday in June Father’s Day. Richard Nixon made it permanent six years later. I recall giving my father a tie on several Father’s Day. As I passed [...]

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Cannibal Capture

June 4, 2012 – 5:32 pm

The BBC News have announced the Berlin Police’s capture of the Canadian cannibal/porno star/bisexual/model/transsexual Luka Magnotta. His crime of killing a Chinese student and posting body parts to various political figures had gripped the imagination of the media, who followed his flight from America’s northern neighbor to the Europe with the enraptured interest any reporter [...]

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A Painter Painting a Picture

July 22, 2010 – 10:11 pm

Hitchhiking was the only way to travel between Boston and Montreal in the early 1970s. It was free. Hippies traveled the roads. 400 miles and most of the trip on scenic highway on the East Coast. I-89 slanted across New Hampshire and Vermont to Lake Champlain then north into Quebec. One trip in August of [...]

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