Most people lose track of their ancestors after a couple generations. I haven’t. My family archives go back to when we came down from the trees, about a half a kilometre from the upper Nile. Some Arab supremacists like to… Read More ›
Humour
MARTIN LUTHER KING’S SEXUAL FANTASY
It used to be the most important thing about you was your race. Martin Luther King dreamt of the day his children would be judged by the quality of their character rather than the colour of their skin. What he… Read More ›
MY WIFE IS SCARY
My wife is an inveterate researcher. She hears about something and then can’t stop herself from heading head down down the rabbit hole. This morning it was broody hens. Huh? Why? Because she immediately had a suspicion that the phenomenon… Read More ›
A SMALL VICTORY, BUT A VICTORY NONETHELESS
In 2021, Dr. Frances Widdowson was fired from Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, for rather impolitically criticising the indigenisation of the university. She sued for wrongful dismissal, and five years later she won, though such victories tend to be… Read More ›
PLUS C’EST LA MEME CHOSE
First came the bomb. Then came the power plant. So if ever there was a case of beating swords into plowshares … But usually it’s the other way around. Is that what the Chicken Little-ers are worried about? That AI… Read More ›
THE MIGRANT CRISIS – PART TWO
Humour is about exaggeration. But it’s not exaggeration unless there’s at least a modicum of truth. So yeah, I’m trying to be funny. But take me at least a little bit seriously. Actions have consequences. So does abstinence. It’s not… Read More ›
JASON ARDAY
Jesus walked on water. George Washington couldn’t tell a lie. Davey Crockett killed his first bear when he was only three. Kim Jong Un played an 18 hole round of golf with a score of 17. And Jason Arday did… Read More ›
NOT ALL THAT SERIOUSLY
Let me come clean about how shallow a person I am. I’ll put myself in harm’s way for a thrill, but not for a cause. Not even to save the life of a loved one? Well maybe, if the likelihood… Read More ›
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
The birth of the Saviour wasn’t foretold. It was backtold. That doesn’t mean the story is false, though in fact it is. But it does mean the backtellers have to make up a whole lot of the details. Repeat a… Read More ›
THE DEPTH OF MY SHALLOWNESS
Let’s face it. Canadian politics are excruciatingly boring. No Canadian party is going to eliminate medicare or criminalise abortion. And really, what else matters? So it’s no surprise that what counts as civil discourse on the other side of the… Read More ›
