The
Winnipeg Bomber
Guido Amsel, 49, faces two counts of
attempted murder, one count of aggravated assault, and eight other
charges after three bombs were discovered in recent days.
**There is no evidence that I have seen which suggests that
Guido has any actual expertise in bomb making yet he was able to build and mail
three bombs, one of which reached its destination and exploded. It can’t be
that hard. And, yet, it is a very rare event. Again, this suggests that there
are VERY few people interested in doing these sorts of things.
The Ottawa Garden
An Ottawa couple received a formal notice from bylaw
officers to remove the wooden enclosure surrounding a garden they planted in
their front lawn, causing the pair’s frustration to grow faster than their
vegetables.
**The fallacy of irrelevancy… I have seen many people (including
the couple who own the garden) bring up all sort of irrelevant issues. The City
is not against your garden… they are against your hard structure. Your status
as a veteran is not relevant. I understand that you like the therapeutic effect
of tending a garden and you can… just don’t have a hard structure or build your
hard structure back away from the sidewalk. I don’t think the issue is really
one of pedestrian safety it’s more about ploughs. I do think, though, that it’s
an excellent compromise to let the garden remain until September so that they owners
can harvest it and then remove the hard structure.
Greece
**Doyle Brunson teaches that poker is game of people, not
cards. I suspect that a lot of the current standoff in Greece has everything to
do with bravado and ego and little to do with sound public policy. Politics is
a game of people, not policy. And, people don’t like to be seen to lose.
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