Why are you here?
“If you don’t love it, leave it.” — Merle Haggard I was riding the 60 to the university the other day, and I had the…
Sheldon Birnie
Booze cruisin’ to the bottom
Dan Fante’s new novel, 86’d, is a rip-roaring novel about a forty-two year old alcoholic, pill-popping loser at life on his last legs. The story…
The aligning of dead ducks
Tar-sands major player Syncrude plead “not guilty” in court last week to two charges laid after 1,600 migratory birds, mostly ducks, died horrible deaths in…
Another goddamn election?
The battle of the fat-heads is impending, friends. Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff remains unrelenting in his drive to bring down Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government…
Roll the dice, dance the dance
“There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.” — Cormac McCarthy As another school year opens, I believe it is…
War in the Peace
In northern British Columbia, close to the Alberta border, there is currently a war going on. This war is being waged by persons unknown against…