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• Removing the cross
  I suppose the cross is gone from the hill of Golgotha. No doubt someone over the last 2,000 years complained about it being there in full view of ...
• Advice to help you along
  The wind and snow of the last few days remind us that summer is almost here. For many of us, the long and protracted summer season is when we ...
• Two noteworthy transitions
  The province has lost too many of its people in the last few weeks.Some by natural means, some by violence. Some through tragic circumstances. ...
• Memories conjure up old emotions from the past
  I don’t know if memory covers it or not. It’s when some offhand word or phrase or more likely a couple of bars of music, especially if complete ...
• The millstone removed
  So, the rabbits are turning against the coyotes. The small minority who are sensitive to political attack on person instead of policy have risen ...
• I have a photograph I'd like to show you.
  It shows OH and me being set upon by two-by-fours, a tarpaulin and inundated by what seemed to us to be about half the water shooting over ...
• The day in verse
  The outlook isn’t brilliant for the world at large today.There are mudslides, floods and hurricanes, that wash whole towns away.Tsunamis 30 feet ...
• Budgets, budgets everywhere
  Everybody seems to be talking about budgets these days. So, I thought I'd be different and comment on something entirely different. Sort of give ...
• The unkindest cuts of all
  It isn’t the budget cuts that are irritating the hell out of every nerve in my body that isn’t crushed, cut or otherwise mangled.It’s the crap ...
• Budget reaction: OMG!
  Is anyone listening? Anyone in government, that is, listening to anyone in this province? I seriously doubt it, not if the evidence of the past ...
• The flatulence factor
  The use of the n-word is strictly taboo in our society. And so it should be. It harks back to a time when some of us, because of the colour of ...
• Hail to the chief
  My heart goes out to members of the Roman Catholic church.It really does. Not being sarcastic in the least. I think to be a faithful member of ...
• Le Petit Dejeuner
  Daughter Number One arrived for a short weekend today. With her she brought three quarters of the “Boys Only Club,” the caption she uses for the ...
• Descending into the golden years
  I was watching the venerable Shirley Douglas on TV the other day.You know the lady I mean. Daughter of Tommy Douglas, the father of Medicare. ...
• Hannah — with arms only
  I don’t talk about disabilities very much.For one thing, in my experience very few disabilities are funny. There is a joke about a fellow with ...
• Thoughts for the times
  Three? Four? Five? How many earth-shattering events have we had in the last two weeks or so? I’m beginning to think the Mayans were only off by a ...
• It’s all about osculation
  This past week is sometimes known as kissing week. Not by everyone, of course. Some people know it as yet another week in which highly creative ...
• Little interest in massage parlour
  It's difficult writing a column with the leadtime of almost a week for some of you, and more for the rest of you. Anything can happen in that ...
• The dumbest question of all
  Here’s the most stupid line in the history of Hollywood movies. I’ve seen it many times, as have you. (That’s not the line.) Last night I was ...
• Liar, liar
  He sat there for 2 1/2 hours and his pants never once caught fire. That’s not easy to do, but all the great ones seem to manage it somehow. ...
• In praise of older men
  I think it’s time I began talking about older men.I realized just a short time ago that I am now an expert. I have finally reached that ...
• Our time and our place
  I think I’m getting too old for this. Too old for writing “The View?” Shhh. Bad thoughts have a bad habit of becoming bad suggestions. And that’s ...
• Beware the Ides of Christmas
  The Christmas season is fraught with danger. I know what you’re thinking. We’re way beyond Christmas now, Smith, so get with the program, move ...
• In the beginning
  Till ringing, singing on its waythe Earth revolved from night to day,a voice, a chime, a chant sublimeof peace on earth, goodwill to men.It seems ...
• Making sense of the senseless
  Note to readers: Depending in which paper you read this column, there is normally a five- to nine-day delay from the time I must first submit it ...
• Making sense of the senseless
  Note to readers: Depending in which paper you read this column, there is normally a five- to nine-day delay from the time I must first submit it ...
• The sobering truth
  If you’re expecting a sweet, sugary Christmas column, forget it.Out of respect for you, the reader, I am resisting the temptation to launch out ...
• Lend me your ear
  You probably already have that perfect gift for your Other Half. I know how you did it, too. You gave the cash to your daughter and said, “Here’s ...
• Kiss your end goodbye
  “Armageddon is upon us!” That’s what preachers and pastors used to shout from the pulpits of my youth at the least provocation.“The end is ...
• Under new management
  Perhaps some of you remember that old John Denver song: If you ask how I’m doin’ here without you, I’d like to say I’m doin’ fine and I ...