Posted in Politics on Mar 23rd, 2009
Humpty-Dumpty time has arrived, and if not, then at the very least the terms of reference may have been defined.
Unless you were hot on the 2006 Federal election trail in Halton – specifically the all candidates debates – the reference to Humpty-Dumpty won’t mean a thing to you. But in a moment of rare comprehensibility, [...]
Posted in Personal on Mar 16th, 2009
Welcome to the redux of danbaril.com. The reasons for doing so were plenty. Mostly however, you, the people who read this space asked me to bring this blog into the blogosphere mainstream complete with the opportunity to post comments, trackbacks, and other blog-like functionality.
Secondly, the manual and arduous task of maintaining the site in Microsoft Frontpage became laborious. I [...]
Posted in Politics on Mar 6th, 2009
For a time Phil Mickelson was the best golfer to never win a major which is a feeling John Tory has to be experiencing today.
Like Phil, poor decision-making near crunch time is what has kept John Tory out of the electoral winner’s circle. In 2007 it was a gamble on faith-based school funding. In 2009 [...]
Posted in Sports on Mar 2nd, 2009
Following my January posts, Don Cherry, are you happy now? and Don Cherry promotes “you’re a dead person” on same night Sanderson is honoured, I received a handful of emails from readers alerting me to the 5th Estate program on fighting in hockey.
The 5th’s piece combined with a personal weekend experience has me adding another [...]