Grandpa Richard does not own a car. Reason? Both financial and personal choice. I came to a realization one day that my car usually sat unused 5 days out of 7. Now comes news that a builder here in Toronto wants to put up a 42 storey condo building, without any parking spots. The builder [...]
Has rudeness become an acceptable thing to be? Is it in? Look at several high profile cases lately. Serena Williams’ obscene outburst over the weekend at the U.S. Open, and rapper Kanye West’s stealing the show at an awards show. In both cases there has been an apology of sorts, but hey, we all used [...]
Sadly, Patrick Swayze has lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. I enjoyed both Dirty Dancing and Ghost, and have a copy of the Swayze/Moore film in my personal collection. I also have a copy of Point Break, although it did not do as well. For more details, you could start with the G&M article, or [...]
Yesterday’s GRS posting about gender birth statistics in India suggests that gender selection abortion occurs in that country. What many of us here in Canada do not realize, is that these types of abortions occur in Canada as well. To quote an Angus Reid poll commentary … An Angus Reid poll has found that a [...]
Statistics suggest that gender selection is being actively practiced amongst the well-to-do in India. There is actually a law against letting parents know the sex of their fetus, but as with most laws in most countries, you can find someone willing to break it. As reported in this article in today’s Globe and Mail, high-caste [...]
I hate this trend, now a very definite fact of life, and this article in the Globe and Mail will really help to make it even more mainstream than it already was. Cougar – a woman in her 40s or 50s who happily embraces the idea of having a romantic relationship with a younger man, [...]
Do you remember the old rotary dial phones? At one point in my not too distant past (less than 4 years ago) I was still using one. It still worked and saved me a little cash on a new push button variety. One day, a friend of my son (then 17) was over and had [...]
