Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

The days are getting shorter, nights cooler, frost looming. It won’t be much longer before it’s time to haul that quintessential piece of canadian clothing out of storage, the toque. It’s time for me to get a new one so I’m thinking of buying this one

I wonder if they’ll let me cross the border wearing [...]

Canada has lost 32 troops and one diplomat in Afghanistan and that is 33 Canadians too many especially in a conflict that can not be won. If this was a peace keeping mission a la Lester Pearson’s concept of peace keeping I would be all for staying and helping the two sides find some accord. [...]

Being an unrepentant pagan I found this New Scientist article most amusing. Pagans (along with other spiritual paths) have long used water as a purifying element. Ritual baths are often used as a- excuse the wording - grounding technique the object of which is to wash away the influences of the outside world and to [...]