TORONTO – Common sense is sorely lacking in the media hoopla and political response to the latest failed attempt to bring down a civil airliner. Perhaps it’s time to look dispassionately at the challenge and identify some potential responses that might help.
Christmas Day Recap
For those of you living on Mars: On December […]
TORONTO – Just in case you missed it, dear Coffee readers, Toronto’s lame duck mayor David Miller has launched a class-action slander at the Copenhagen Climate Shindig. Claiming to speak for “all Canadians” he’s announced how “embarrassed” we are to be Canadians. Not to put too fine a point on it, allow me […]
TORONTO — Ah, yes. My Monday morning Java, fresh in hand, I sit down to look at the papers and… what? Could it be? Yes. The Toronto Star newspaper wants me to stop buying newspapers.
The entire front page of the Toronto Star today is devoted to a multinational editorial headlined: […]
TORONTO – Yesterday, Canada’s Prime Minister was publicly rebuked by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao for prioritizing human rights above corporate profits. This bit of laughable political theater in China turned outright bizarre by the time news reached Ottawa, where opposition political leaders dutifully lined up behind the Chinese dictatorship to wag their professorial index […]
TORONTO — Further to my post on Monday, I’d like to elucidate some of the “why” behind my unsolicited (and unrequited) advice to Tiger Woods. I advised then, and reaffirm now, that Tiger shouldn’t follow the reams of PR advice being proffered by experts in the media.
The show gets weirder
In a truly Alice in Wonderland […]
TORONTO — I’m back in Toronto and am interrupting my normal program of venting and unsolicited prosthelytizing to bring you a blatant, but entirely worthy, non-commercial advertisement.
I have been involved with Youth Challenge International for a number of years and believe it’s an outstanding organization that does two exceptionally valuable things very well:
1. It sends […]
BRUSSELS – I woke up early today and, eschewing the 30 Euro buffet breakfast proffered in the hotel, headed out onto the streets of Brussels to find a coffee and croissant. Or, even, just a coffee. Alas, I was stymied. Not a coffee or pastry to be found today. All the shops on the high […]
TORONTO – Today’ surprising announcement that U.S. president Barack Obama is the 2009 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize must have the leader of the free world pulling his hair out.
Sure, it’s an amazing honor. And, it’s something to highlight on your resume if (a) you’ve won one and (b) if people believe you’ve earned […]
TORONTO — Michael Jackson is still dead. Film at, well… continuously.
LIMBO — As I watch the U.S. coverage of South Carolina governor Mark Sanford’s fall from grace, I wonder at the role that religion plays in American politics. And, what role religious homogeneity plays in that nation’s ascendancy as a super power.
Without doubt, the U.S. is a superpower. Somewhat less clear, is whether this superpowerdom […]