Gifted Typist

A generation ago middle age was anywhere between 30-45. Now, the on-line dictionaries put it somewhere between 40-65.
That’s quite a leap considering the average life expectancy hasn’t changed in that generation.If you put a literal interpretation on today’s definition of middle age, that would mean our average life expectancy would be 80-130.
So what gives? Why […]

And while we’re at it, let’s junk the cap Ws in World Wide Web, and cap E in email. I’ve never understood the maniacal attachment to capital letters for all things related to the internet.
We don’t use a cap T for telephone, R for radio or railroad, cap Ps for pencil and paper and cap […]

Because Tanya Espanya brought up the subject of panties and her graduation into smaller sizes post-baby, I thought it was time to drag out of the archives one of GT’s early banned words: Panties.
By “Panties,” I mean those undergarments worn on the bottom by members of female sex.
I’m not calling for a universal moratorium […]

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 […]

Keen GT readers will be pleased to hear that British Prime Minister Tony Blair has heeded advice offered by this typist.
The term “War on Terror” will no longer be used by the British, according to International Development Secretary Hilary Benn who spoke at the Center on International Cooperation in New York. You may recall […]

Past posts on banned words (31)
An affliction that affects 4 out of 5 Nova Scotia politicians living on the provincial and municipal taxpayer. Symptoms include loss of judgement, blurry vision and absence of backbone.
Sufferers may show signs of […]

Past posts on banned words (31)
Like most ill-conceived, thoughtless and dare we say stupid enterprises, the Delusional Calgaria campaign by Rodney MacDonald’s Nova Scotia government is floundering.
Yesterday, they dropped the word “delusional” after complaints that the campaign trivializes […]

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Not from the gymnasium, from the fiddle or from the step-dancing floor, but Rodney MacDonald should be banned from the playground of provincial politics.
This morning we had an episode of Rodney’s Believe it or Not! featuring our premier on radio answering yet more questions on another cabinet minister’s brush with police. Has our young step-dancing, […]

Because enough is enough!

Yes, Nova Scotia has a black eye after the Commonwealth bid failure.

Yes, the political leadership here is spectacularly uninspired.

Yes, the Commonwealth bid committee sold a bill of goods when they got us into the bid by saying the games would cost $500 million when in fact the number was closer to […]

There is no question that a public performance of music is one of life’s great pleasures, unless you happen to find yourself in vicinity of a “woo woo” artist.
You know the “woo woo” artist. This is an individual so taken with the pleasure of the moment, they channel their exaltation through the “woo woo.”
This is […]

Much is being said lately of the Hipster Parent, most of it negative. Time magazine recently printed a screed entitled Too Cool for Preschool and New York Times columnist David Brooks dissed the trend of turning a six-month old into a logo for the lastest indie rock band or for Mummy’s blog.

This typist has also […]

How can we have a War on Terror?
Wars are conducted between nation states. And according to my dictionary, terror is a noun defined as “an intense, sharp, overmastering fear.” How does a nation state engage in warfare with “an intense, sharp, overmastering fear?”
Does “intense, sharp, overmastering fear” fight back in retaliation? Are there Geneva […]