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Final Thought: Quest for Quality

One of my favourite things to wear is an tee-shirt with a Flash logo on it.  Flash, like the DC comic character. I’ve been reading...

Final Thought: Forty years? No, and yes.

As of Today, April 9 (edit: darnit; yesterday, forgot to hit post) Tumbler Ridge will turn 40 years old.  Sort of.  Y’see, Tumbler Ridge has two...

Final Thought: Two quotes compared without commentary

On June 11, 1963, JFK gave one of the most important speeches of his presidency, addressing, for the first time, the issue of race...

Final Thought: Surviving

I was recently talking—well, texting, as that’s about the closest to talking one can get these days, and, let’s be honest, I’m not the...

Final Thought: Perceptions of a dress

Do you remember the dress? If you were online five years ago, you probably do. It was a terrible photograph of a dress that some...

Final Thought: Math in a time of a pandemic

Trent  I saw it again. The post on Facebook saying between 291,000 and 646,000 die each year from influenza-related illnesses. Meanwhile, the death rate for...

Final Thought: Avoiding extremes. Again.

There seems to be two reactions to the whole coronavirus thing. The first is sheer panic, the second is to make fun of the...

Final Thought: Just my facts, ma’am

I was too young to catch the original airing of Dragnet on TV in the 1950s, or even the revival in the late 1960s. But by...

Final Thought: Life, the Universe, and Everything

At the start of Douglas Adams’ classic Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent (Arther Philip Dent) wakes up with a hangover and a...

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