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  • WHEN VENAL MET VAINGLORY 16 May 2025
  • LISTENING TO WHAT ISN’T SAID 9 May 2025
  • KOWTOWING TO CURTAIL 60 MINUTES 2 May 2025
  • ANECDOTES FROM PAPAL PROXIMITY 25 April 2025
  • AT LEAST NERO WEPT AS HE “FIDDLED” 18 April 2025
  • WHEN IMBECILES AND EXPERTS ARE TOO MUCH… 4 April 2025
  • A TEE SHIRT AND A PHILOSOPHER SYNCED 28 March 2025
  • A WORTHY WORD FOR THE WORLD’S WITLESS 21 March 2025
  • TARIFFS TURN A LOVE SONNET INSIDE OUT 14 March 2025
  • COPING WITH TALES TOLD BY AN IDIOT 7 March 2025

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  • WHEN VENAL MET VAINGLORY 16 May 2025
    The New York-set movie to which the headline of this post owes a nod, romped its way to a predictable happy ending. The Middle East-based horror show to which the headline refers is relentlessly lurching its way towards unhappiness that shows no sign of ending. Venal, meaning unprincipled and  vainglory, the ugly trait of being […]
  • LISTENING TO WHAT ISN’T SAID 9 May 2025
    Usually, watching and reading the news, especially statements and claims by those who make it, puts me somewhere between despair and outrage. This week. I tried a new approach, listening for what wasn’t said. The most fun was the public part of the meeting between President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.… Read […]
  • KOWTOWING TO CURTAIL 60 MINUTES 2 May 2025
    Let me be clear from the outset that this week’s “atypical perspective” is slightly distorted by personal bias. Having worked for the best of CBS News bosses, I suggest current controlling shareholder Shari Redstone read some broadcast history, watch a movie and consider her relationship to the “glass ceiling”. Doing so might help her reassess […]
  • ANECDOTES FROM PAPAL PROXIMITY 25 April 2025
    The death of Pope Francis has prompted more praise, comment, criticism, cliches and solemn analysis than I can compete with, or even match. Instead, I’ll share a few anecdotes and a personal conclusion based on travels with three popes. On papal flights, the Pope and his immediate entourage occupy First Class, lesser staff are in […]
  • AT LEAST NERO WEPT AS HE “FIDDLED” 18 April 2025
    Compared to how today’s equivalents of emperors are dealing with  crises and catastrophes, Nero being synonymous with “fiddling while Rome burns” is a bum wrap. Sudan is front, center and in humanitarian terms the foremost example. To mark the second anniversary of the civil war that has officially become the world’s worst  humanitarian crisis — […]
  • WHEN IMBECILES AND EXPERTS ARE TOO MUCH… 4 April 2025
    Nothing casts doubt on one’s acquired wisdom like economic imbeciles and experts on aging. As a countermeasure, I recommend the mantra of Deccie, a twelve-old character in my favourite crime novel series: they “just don’t understand the fundamentals”.  Combine that with European Commission President Ursula Van der Leyen’s observation that there seems to be “… […]
  • A TEE SHIRT AND A PHILOSOPHER SYNCED 28 March 2025
    At the risk of seeming to mix the sublime and the ridiculous, a kid’s tee shirt and a 18th century philosopher sum up the latest fiasco  — or maybe farce is a better word — of this week in the World of Trump. The tee shirt, which I spotted some years ago, was intended for […]
  • A WORTHY WORD FOR THE WORLD’S WITLESS 21 March 2025
    Type “stupid” into Roget’s Thesaurus and more than 50 nouns and adjectives pop up. In varying degrees, all of them are applicable to the remorseless list of tragedies that plague the world. The tragedy of that is how acceptable willful and blind stupidity have become. Gaza tops the list of avoidable-with-a-modicum-of-intelligence debacles.… Read the rest […]
  • TARIFFS TURN A LOVE SONNET INSIDE OUT 14 March 2025
    Polite appearances to the contrary, Canada’s relationship with the U.S. has always had an element that can be summed up in a paraphrase of the opening line of a sonnet by the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning:  “How do you p*** us off. Let us count the ways..” Tariffs and annexation bombast merely head the […]
  • COPING WITH TALES TOLD BY AN IDIOT 7 March 2025
    As a guide for how to deal with the insults, about-turns and wrecking ball style that pass for American foreign policy without resorting to profanity, I suggest channeling Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, with a small tweak: “Appropriate or inappropriate, that is the question.” There has been much ado about whether or not French President Emmanuel Macron and […]

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