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

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• A few odds and ends
  Today, I have some housekeeping and follow-ups stemming from previous columns that I'd like to get out of the way. A bit of fall cleaning, if you ...
• What's it 'become' to at Memorial University?
  The fall semester is nigh, and Memorial University students are merrily gearing up for a productive year of becoming. Becoming what, you ask? ...
• Health care vs. hysteria
  Last fall, I predicted that then U.S. president-elect Barack Obama would quickly run into rough waters, despite all the teary-eyed proclamations ...
• Mea culpa ad infinitum
  Of all the culture clashes throughout history that have left wounds festering for decades and even centuries, few come close to the perpetual ...
• Memories of gravel
  I've always been sentimental about gravel. I love the sound of it under car tires. When I was a kid, I'd hear that special crunching sound a lot ...
• Guilty of unintentional intent
  What happens when a white cop and a black citizen find themselves in a bit of a tussle? In the U.S., they both get to have a beer with the ...
• The barbarian within
  The menu offered foie gras as a pairing of two popular preparations: a cold parfait, and hot, glazed livers on a pastry shell. I was dining with ...
• Lord Chretien of Double-Crossharbour
  He doesn't get an honorific in front of his name, or get to wear sumptuous robes, but Jean Chretien has just been reduced to the same level of ...
• The uncritical critic
  Yesterday at noon, I was feeling a little peckish (having only had a pocketed Communion wafer to nibble on) when I spied a little establishment ...
• In a New York minute, everything can change
  We were on a 12:30 p.m. northbound train out of Secaucus, N.J. when my wife learned her mother had died. A missed message on her cellphone ...
• It's Canada's birthday and I'll hide if I want to
  Is there any more useless - and more important - holiday as Canada Day? I don't mean to pick on Canada in particular. All countries have that ...
• And the worms ate into his brain
  It appears, in recent days, that Premier Danny Williams is finally starting to succumb to the madness. Madness, you ask? I refer to that ...
• Secret tapes unveiled
  Lorraine Michael: Hey, driver. Who am I, Miss Daisy? Step on it! Aide: Good one, Ma'am. LM: We need to get to this news conference on time. ...
• Um, maybe there isn't a crisis?
  Here's a thought. Is it possible Ross Wiseman is not the most incompetent health minister since the dawn of recorded history? The idea goes ...
• The jaws that bite, the claws that catch
  Many (seals) have yet to take their first swim or eat their first solid meal when they are killed. - Humane Society of the United States website ...
• Mulroney's finest hour
  What will become of Newfoundland's old friend, Brian Mulroney? He's certainly got himself in a pickle - a pickle of his own bottling, if I may ...
• It's not a game show, premier
  In his 1971 film "Bananas," Woody Allen plays a mild-mannered New Yorker who gets caught up in a revolution in the fictional South American ...
• You can't handle the truth
  Every now and then, self-appointed wordsmiths such as myself like to sit back and ponder annoying words and phrases that creep into the daily ...
• Police follies, big and small
  "Come and get me, copper," said James Cagney, and the coppers always obliged. On this side of the border, the Mounties always got their man, too. ...
• Don't stop till you get enough
  In the summer of 2000, California was enveloped in a major energy crisis. Citizens throughout the state found themselves literally in the dark as ...
• Into the great wide open
  Our pond opened up on Sunday, two weeks earlier than it was supposed to. April 6 is early. My father says ponds on the Avalon open up during the ...
• I'm a Newfoundlander, luh
  My friend Russell is a smart fellow. He writes two columns in The Telegram every week, as well as most of the editorials. He's been working in ...
• The origin of speciousness
  The Globe and Mail raised the alarm last week about Canada's minister of Science and Technology, Gary Goodyear. "Science minister won't confirm ...
• All at sea
  When you're lost for words, it often helps to borrow someone else's. Amid the inevitable questions about gearboxes and response times, a simple ...
• Missive from Toronto
  It's a grey, foggy day on the Pickering platform. A handful of passengers - students, mostly - await the 5 o'clock westbound. A few yards beyond ...
• Parents pay price of vaccine myths
  Imagine this headline: "Supreme Court rules global warming is real." It seems almost funny to think a court would rule on something that should ...
• Cut from the same cloth
  Two men, both carrying the burdens of their countries on their worthy shoulders, had warm greetings for each other in wintry Ottawa Thursday. ...
• The interfering premier
  What will the legacy of our current premier be? Is it, perchance, too early to tell? Must all the chickens hatch first? Must all the skeletons be ...
• An affair not to remember
  Yes, Robert Ghiz may have jumped into bed with Danny Williams, but it was only a one-night stand. They must be feeling pretty weird about it now. ...
• Equalize this
  The equalization debates of the past few years seem to be heading along a similar path as the constitutional crises of the 1980s. They are both ...