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According to the Ottawa Sun, a seventeen year old child was clocked driving 175 kph in an 80 kph zone. When police stopped him, he had two other minors in the car with him. His license and vehicle have been seized for seven days. The driver is facing a charge of “stunt driving”. Actually, it…
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Despite the fondest wishes of so many who opposed it, Greenpeace turned forty this year. I remember as a child back in the early ’70s listening to all the talk about this group of “hippies” that were interfering with nuclear testing. Because of the cold war, it seemed pretty obvious to a child like me…
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Okay, you’ve finally got me. I can’t take it any more. Our society is caught in a feedback loop and just like the feedback at a live concert, the whining is driving me nuts. Someone says, “One percent of the population controls most of the money while the other ninety-nine percent struggles.” and a media…
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So our provincial election is over. Dalton McGuinty and the Liberal Party returned for a third round but with a minority this time. That just gives them a handy excuse for anything they promised but don’t deliver on. All of that is irrelevant because so few people showed up to vote. We could have elected…
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Bob Dechert exchanged amorous emails and messages with Shi Rong. So how is that anybody’s business but theirs? He’s married, she’s married. She’s a correspondent for China’s Xhinhua News Agency, he’s parliamentary secretary to Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird. Dare I mention that Mr. Baird, and his parliamentary secretary are both members of the Conservative…
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For those who don’t know, don’t care, or aren’t from around here, we’re heading into a Provincial election here in Ontario. For those in the US, that’s the State level. For the rest of the world, it’s important to us, but likely most of the world won’t be greatly impacted by it. Locally though, it’s…
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Here’s how the scenario unfolds. The police follow a suspect in an active investigation. They observe him go into the woods. Fifty minutes later, he emerges, and drives away. The officers enter the woods and observe an area where the pine needles and soil appear disturbed. The following day, a forensic team returns and unearths…
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I watched a TED.com talk by Neil Pasricha last night and it started me thinking. He talked about going through a very dark time in his life. His marriage ended and a close friend took his own life after a long struggle with mental illness. As part of the process of moving himself out of…
Brain Bits To Go 