People saying it's disrespectful to put up Christmas trees before Remembrance Day are the same people that say that Daylight Saving Time is because of the farmers. People shouldn't rope others into their arguments who have nothing to do with it. Eating chocolate before Easter also not disrespectful.

Apparently, 2025 has been so awesome the Powers that Be decided we should have another hour of it. Bon appetit. We ask that Americans refrain from setting their clocks back to 1933.

Go Blue Jays! Win it for the Gipper!

This World Series game keeps on going the teams will be setting up tents and cots because it won't be worth leaving the field before the next game...

Canucks Calder Kids looked all right tonight, with mostly Canucks B team vs Calgary C team. Chytil was the best forward out there and you'd be concerned if he wasn't. Foote not stifling creativity and putting them out on the ice for a "show me what you got" game.

Is Trump dead? Asking for a friend. If he is dead are we going to witness a Weekend at Bernie's thing waving from the White House balcony like a Soviet dictator or are we talking Maga Zombie?

The Canucks have won the Cup! The Canucks have won the Cup! #caldercup

In the UK they have the 'trooping of the colours' parade for the King's birthday, with two minutes of silence and commemoration of the Air India disaster. On the other side of the Pond, the faux king is having a military parade to celebrate himself and the dismantling of America's democracy.

Mexico is playing the Dominican Republic in a Gold Cup game in LA on Saturday, in a city where ICE is running around looking for dark skinned people to deport to meet their quotas. Best of luck with that. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Canada got walked to the brink of becoming another populist right wing country, to be part of a movement to further erode Western Liberal Democracy, but after getting a good eyeful of what that looked like south of the border we took another path.

New book about Facebook called "Careless People", by former diplomat and Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams. Meta has a court injunction against her promoting her own book publicly, so the media and regular people are stepping up to do it for her. www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Boston doesn't love kings, whether they have a crown of gold or a toilet of gold. If you love the Dropkick Murphys songs, you'll love them even more after hearing what they have to say to the followers of the current US government.

Conditions and timing of tonight's lunar eclipse are perfect for me to image the event from my balcony in North Saanich, with the small technical problem of the clouds sort of ruining things for the late evening/early morning event. www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/c...

When Lenin said "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen" he wasn't talking about those wild times in university when a lot of you were living on your own for the first time.

With RFK Junior in Senate hearings debating the merit of an anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theory peddling nutcase becoming the top health authority in the US, they have yet to address the real question of who the parasite really is: the politician or the brain worm.

Every once in a while the financial sector does the right thing, even if it's rarely for the right reasons. Elon's massive debts are being sold off by the big lenders on Wall Street, which hopefully starts a run on Captain Ketamine's companies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ne...

Burning down my Twitter account and coming here is like quitting smoking, where you leave the cancer behind for fresher air and bluer skies. I should have done it long ago. Twitter was once a better place, but it's been suffocated by malign bots, unhinged conspiracy theory nuts, and bad actors.

The roses are cut back and dormant this time of year, but Butchart Gardens does put on an amazing light show for the holiday season. This is a bronze cast statue of Hermes in the Italian Garden.