Perspectives

Some of our friends south of the border are engaging Congress in a Tea Bag Revolution.

Wanting to be Irish on the 17th of March is as natural as wishing someone the “top o’ the morning” or invoking one of those Irish wishes for well-being when the road rises up to meet your face after visiting an Irish pub.

We were window shopping - the only kind of shopping we can afford with the current recession eating up our savings – when we overheard a conversation between the shop owner and a well-dressed lady.

While Hollywood and Bollywood celebrate the Oscars, my Oskar Awards night quietly slipped by without fanfare. The Oskar resembles an icicle, not a gilded statuette like its namesake.

With all the loopholes in the Do Not Call registry, I have had to develop my own Do Not Answer program.

One would think that being a garbage man was a secure job. We produce thousands of tonnes of garbage every day, day in – day out. Weekends and holidays are no exception.

Burn After Reading was the movie of the week at the recreation centre in the community where we are spending a few weeks soaking up some Florida sunshine. My wife, who studies the movies reviews, said it got two thumbs up and we should see it.

The comments last week by one of our top police officers about ‘selective’ enforcement of the ‘no-smoking when children are in the car’ law caused me to think of the many other occasions when we are selective in our behaviour.

It was reassuring to read in the new, slimmer local paper that the color yellow is going to be the trendy colour of 2009.

The not surprising result of the City’s infrastructure study is almost enough to make one wonder why we have not built up reserve funds for the maintenance and replacement of our roads, water and sewer systems.