In 2006 I was on a holiday  in Cancun Mexico when I saw, on a Mexican News channel that an outbreak of Avian Flu had been detected in a chi...

 Lord love the proverbial duck,  as an American Caesar once intoned:  "I have returned!"  The last post I made was 'only' ...

It's been a while.   It's been experiential.   It's been an intermittent saga, tracing a convoluted trail to getting my Blogger ...

I've been twittering a lot more lately and it has affected my blogging. Reading and commenting 134 characters at a time seems to have ta...

Big Donnie finds himself in the midst of a tempest he thought was going to go away. With the subpoena of the Trump Organization's files ...

Torontonians are regaling themselves,  in shocked awe, that a 'serial' killer has been walking among them - possibly since he 'g...

It's hard to believe that in my last post more than three weeks ago, I commented that 'Afrin' - a Kurdish enclave in NW Syria - ...

It was an interesting sort of day in our sad old world.  Some of us focused on Davos and the visual display of the Trump effect. That star...

I got a look at a new documentary (October 2017) called 'Trumping America"  that tries to explain to the dense just WTF happened la...

'Tis the Awards season again and America gears-up for its annual tribute to what used to be called the 'land of celluloid' and n...

Saturday morning last , or at least 28 minutes of it, must have been a real 'doozie' for those Hawaiians, and tourists,  who weren...

As the 'big stick' of Canada's National Police forces hangs up his 'Sam Brown and six gun'  (and takes the spurs home fo...

The IOC has labored and Dicky Pound and the 'Royal Canucks' have taken a stand. The IOC 'hearts' Russian athletes, they abho...

One of the things that has yet to happen in the new, rebutylhydrated EUkraine is the trial of some Berkut riot police accused of 'inhuma...

One of the interesting things about wars, as they recede into history, are the 'accretions of valor' they pick-up from those who, ap...

Anthony Bourdain would be the first to tell you that the quality of any meal starts with what it looks like on the plate.  Some meals that h...

The truth about Syria is emerging and will one day - it is to be hoped - see the perpetrators of a staged revolution hauled before the World...

There are places on Earth where violent men with guns are a regular fact of life. We like to think that 'those people' in 'those...

Them 'dedly' Norks. Some screwballs can visit North Korea - talk to the locals and even act silly  - without falling afoul the ...