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Peter Jackson is The Telegram's Commentary Editor. You can reach Peter at pjackson@thetelegram.com

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• Musical milestones
  The musical pair who took the top artist award at the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Awards this weekend are not exactly household names. They ...
• Life outside the Internet
  "When I hear the word blog, I want to throw up," said a friend, as we sat at his table eating sumptuous prime rib and garlic mashed potatoes, ...
• Help wanted: Cabinet Minister
  Canada's Still Reasonably New Government(TM) is looking for a strong, motivated individual to take on the challenge of becoming a cabinet ...
• Signs of change in the native agenda
  "You gotta be kidding me! These losers get enough of my tax dollars; why keep giving them more?" - Reader comment on a Globe and Mail story ...
• Just let them talk
  It wasn't a monumental issue, but it was enough to spur two or three hundred Memorial University students to march up the Prince Philip Parkway. ...
• Anatomy of a smear
  "I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out." - Rodney Dangerfield As in hockey games, political discourse often devolves ...
• Keeping the gays at bay
  "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country. ... We do not have this phenomenon; I don't know who has told you that we have it." ...
• A toxic dose of reality
  Twice a day, every day, I pop poison in my mouth and wash it down with a sip of water. I do this willingly and, apart from a scattered oversight, ...
• Meanwhile, on the big screen
  Last week, I finally ventured out to see Adriana Maggs' feature film-making debut, "Grown Up Movie Star." Now, I want to see it again. It is one ...
• Why can't we all just get along?
  In the late 1990s, a debate was raging in Washington about a new statue of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Many of the four-term president's family and ...
• 'Magic Flute' enchants
  Zarathustra (or "Zoroaster" in Greek) is not exactly a household name these days. Yet the ancient Persian prophet had a deity-like influence on ...
• State of the 'Republic': epilogue
  I'd hoped to talk about more important things this week - like whether nori-wrapped sticky rice is an adequate substitute for seal meat - but I ...
• Why I've gone off 'Republic of Doyle'
  If there's one truth that has withstood the test of time - and the varying demands of societal mores - it is that sex sells. That shiny car ...
• Unidentified pie-ing objects
  The so-called "silly season" seems to have arrived early. In the news-starved haze of midsummer, the media often resort to offbeat yarns to fill ...
• Random notes
  Former U.S. presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have joined forces to help raise funds for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. They say they ...
• Staying on the meds
  "He's off his meds." How many times have you heard, or uttered, those words in a cavalier manner? To describe a friend who's said something ...
• Democracy at a whim
  Every now and then, you come across something that makes you say, "Darn, I wish I'd written that." And then there are times you say - for ...
• Don't lose sight of the goal
  "No time for indecision We got to make a move I hope that we're forgiven For what we gotta do ..." - Neil Young, "Let's Roll" In the past ...
• Grenfell set on new course
  It was one of those surreal ann-ouncements: in order to "assist the growth and independence" of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, the college will be renamed ...
• House of Woolen Santas
  CBC Radio's Morning Show used to air a narration of Kevin Major's "House of Wooden Santas" in the days leading up to Christmas. The daily segment ...
• Positively outrageous
  Last week, I was surfing through audiobooks at the online iTunes store and came across a new book by American author and straight-shooter Barbara ...
• Another kick at the can
  The story of hydroelectric power generation in Labrador is a long and complicated one. But in the end, one simple fact remains: Quebec was handed ...
• The ClimateGate that wasn't
  In the world of science, there's a colloquialism to describe desperate researchers fudging results to keep the grants coming. It's called ...
• Aggravated assault
  There is far too much violence going on these days, and I'm not talking about that perpetrated by those troubled souls being escorted in and out ...
• Iconoclasm without the sledgehammer
  When my wife and I were in the Netherlands in 2000, we made a special point of visiting Utrecht with a Dutch friend who lived in the nearby town ...
• The right to choose - and not pay
  It's a shame Ted Kennedy didn't live just a couple of months longer. If he had, the Massachusetts senator - one of the most steadfast crusaders ...
• Get outta my way
  Imagine Canada was the Titanic. And imagine provincial health departments were the crew. Imagine the H1N1 "swine flu" virus was an iceberg, and ...
• I'll be the one dressed as Scrooge
  Feb. 16, 2010. Mark that date on your calendar. It's important. That is the day the English call Shrove Tuesday. Around these parts, the most ...
• Blind to their own sins
  The news of Bishop Raymond Lahey and his laptop computer has been floating around for a month now, and reaction, while heated, has been largely ...
• He said, she said
  Mount Pearl Mayor Randy Simms and St. John's Coun. Sheilagh O'Leary had a little joust about women and politics on VOCM's Open Line last week. It ...