Idiot Wind

It’s been some time since I had any respect for the mainstream news media since most major news sources degenerated into the capitalistic “sweeps week all year long” sensationalism that currently plagues them, (especially among our American cousins).  Here’s just another tiny example that caught my eye only because it’s about my man, Bob Dylan.  [...]

USA 2008 vs Canada 1993

George W. Bush is arguably the least popular American president ever.  He certainly has the lowest approval ratings in the 7 decades the Gallup Poll has been in use.  As a Canadian, there is a vague sense of the familiar in all of this, as we look back and consider our own country’s past leadership.  [...]

Canadian DMCA

Peter Jackson film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings opens thusly:
The world is changed.  I feel it in the water.  I feel it in the Earth.  I smell it in the air.  Much that once was is lost.  For none now hold the copyright to profit from it.
Okay, I paraphrased that last bit, but [...]

Disturbing Finds Out West

When the fifth human foot washed up on BC shores, it was the first I’d ever heard of it.  Then a sixth, this one with evidence of actually being severed, washed up yesterday:
The black running shoe, wrapped in seaweed, didn’t stand out on the pebbled beach near Campbell River yesterday. It was the stomach-turning sight [...]

Preachin’

Despite the fact that my two year practicum (or “SFE” or “Supervised Field Education”) at Billtown Baptist Church is complete, I have the distinct pleasure of filling in on Sunday morning for pastor Randall Read on June 22nd and all of July the first three Sundays of July at both Woodville and Billtown Baptist churches. [...]