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I am the epitome of a political junkie. I remember arguing the merits of Jimmy Carter (over Gerald Ford) in public school. Tha

I don’t have a big family, myself. I’m the bratty single kid, and so was my mom. No siblings to play with, and no

O’lantern. This event starting things out nicely. We were invited by Ellie’s best friends parents (oh hell, they&#

Why I support the idea of Barack Obama. (Photo: AP) Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a man born into slavery, has lived a li

The scene was quite idyllic. The family cottage (not mine, the Hodgins’) on an island in Killarney Bay. Early 80s, the e

For whatever reason (reasons, no doubt, with which I have nothing to do), I am considered to be a coffee snob. There might be

This is, as they say in the colony, phoquing hillarious. The joke is lost on any who don’t know the French word for seal

The great tragedy of science [is] the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley The monument to Nicolau

I watched this race right from the beginning, thanks to excellent coverage via the Mother Corp. The last minutes were pure ele

There are many things about The Big Smoke that I intensely miss. One of those, which my current hometown of Calgary sadly lack