This was advertised in the Globe & Mail on the day I was born:
My mum bought a second-hand Viva estate in 1975. We thought it was huge.
The image is via the archive at Toronto Public Library. More cool stuff there than ever. (via)
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something other than wind blows here
Dave Bidini‘s article in today’s Globe & Mail, An ill wind blows (now irritatingly hidden behind a paywall, but helpfully cached here) troubles me about what got through basic fact-checking:
- “The turbines expected on the island are open-bladed, a style being replaced in Europe by closed-blade turbines, which do less damage to wildlife.” What are closed-blade turbines? I’m in weekly contact with colleagues in the European wind energy industry. If people were installing a radically different type of machine, I’d know about it.
- The article cites the National Center for Policy Analysis as a source. Quoting the NCPA on wind energy and the environment is a little like quoting the NRA on gun control. Check out the NCPA’s E-Team: Providing Accurate Information on Energy & Environment Issues. Overall, I’d say that ExxonMobil are getting great VFM on their donations to NCPA [PDF] if they’re now being quoted as a credible, balanced source.
Putting the rant back into intolerant
What’s with Canada’s eminently sensible newspaper The Globe and Mail carrying ads for far-right Colorado-based
Focus on the Family? Are we getting so tolerant that we tolerate intolerance?
The words far-right Colorado-based
, aren’t mine, by the way. They’re from an article by the Globe‘s Leah McLaren where Focus on the Family … claim homosexuality is
.both preventable and treatable
Some of my best friends are from Colorado, and in a perfect world I’d hope that FOTF would take massive umbrage at Leah‘s article, and withdraw their ads from my paper. As is, I wish I had a subscription to the Globe, so I could cancel it in disgust.
small fame in the globe and mail
So I got printed in this week’s Globe & Mail Challenge, where one had to devise a brief joke that begins in the traditional way with someone or something going into a bar
. Here’s my entry:
A gerund goes into a bar, and the bartender says, “What are you, drinking?”