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Nobel Peace Prize winner (1993) Nelson Mandela lambasted the U.S. and U.K. policy on Iraq yesterday. During a speech at the International Women’s Forum, he claimed that the U.S. was “arrogant” and called George W. Bush “a president who can’t think properly and wants to plunge the world into holocaust”.
CNN’s coverage of the story […]

News item: “Quebec wants to make retirement easier.” As someone who would retire TODAY if I had the resources, I clicked on this headline with considerable interest.
As it turns out, the story is the opposite of what you’d expect. The government is encouraging people to retire later, not earlier. How, exactly, does that make retirement […]

… here is the recipe for M’s Roasted Red Pepper Soup. Note that it is in French. You can get a Googlized translation to English here, but for some weird reason Google translates “Poivrons rouge” into “green peppers.” Don’t believe it! The soup calls for red peppers, not green!

On a shelf in my study is a large 10 ounce (283 gram) can of Altoids — "The Big Tin." It was given to me in 1999 under circumstances that shame me every time I look at it. Still, I keep it there, out in the open, to remind me to think before I speak.
It […]

Early this evening, after coming home from skating in Parc Lafontaine, M. and I sat down to a nice Sunday supper of leftover soup and a salad. The soup was M’s heavenly roasted red pepper soup which she had prepared for Saturday night’s dinner with friends at Chez Blork. I’ve been living in that apartment […]

I’ve been getting text message SPAM on my mobile phone. To fully understand the gravity of this, you must be aware that I am not a phone person. I love talking with people, but I hate talking into a damn piece of plastic. This isn’t some sort of post-modern proto-luddite affectation or whatever — it’s […]