Gifted Typist

Today we start a new series on GT: typist and typewriter.
Some of the best prose ever written came through the keystrokes of a trusty typewriter. You can almost hear the clickety clack of the writer in the garret tapping away on the old manual typewriter. Those days are gone now and typist and typewriter have […]

Men of a certain age have no problem deluding themselves into thinking they are stallions when they strip down to a bathing suit and go to the beach. They can be lumpy, white, pasty with vericose veins all over their legs and still convince themselves they are Brad Pitt on the beach.
Women of a certain […]

Canada’s Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has ripped this phrase from the song book of think tanks funded by companies that wish to cast doubt climate change science.
“Intensity reduction” - a pillar of Mr. Harper’s new green plan - allows industry to increase greenhouse gas outputs as they raise production. According to Al Gore, “intensity […]