Gifted Typist

See my Herald column here. We were the unsung heros of the newspaper business. True, the flyer stuffers weren’t the glamorous reporters or the fearless photographers with their notebooks and zoom lenses. We weren’t the pressroom boyz or the advertising teams. And we weren’t the paper carriers who got the paper to everyone’s front step [...]

This one is making the rounds. It’s the top nine comments made by NBC sports commentatorsduring the Olympics that they would like to take back. Are they all true? Who knows? Are they funny? Check for yourselves 1. Weight-lifting commentator: ‘This is Gregorieva from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up [...]

Oh! You caught me practising our new national anthem. I’m not actually American, but I quite like the American national anthem. And with our minority government about the pull the plug and call an election to try for their majority, all Canadians could soon be singing this anthem. That is because Prime Minister Stephen Harper [...]

Yes. Yeeeee-haaaaawwww! I know I’m not supposed to be too happy about the ending of summer. After all, I did have a lovely summer at the cottage. Weather wasn’t great but the Olympics were. And the company was five-star. And the kids had fun. And the kids were around a lot. And they had plenty [...]