CBC carried the news recently that “scientists may have found the ‘God particle’.” Teams working with the Large Hadron Collider have nearly convinced themselves (if not all of their fellow-creatures who know nothing about colliders and sub-atomic particles),  that the Higgs boson particle, hitherto a theoretical particle waiting to be “proven” by  series of tests, does actually exist.  So this is an article about that article describing a particular type of scientist looking for a particular…

This week we’ve seen another reflection of Isaiah’s lament: “Woe to them that call evil good and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” In Ottawa, we’ve seen—on Wednesday—the passage at 3^rd reading of C-279, the Transgendered Bill which gives special attention to the feelings and wishes of those with gender identity and gender orientation distinctives. As most know who followed…

There’s a joke about an old East Coast fisherman who decided to try something new he heard about on TV: sausages. In due time, he purchased a package of these sausages and his wife cooked them up for supper. A couple of weeks later, one of his fishermen friends asked him, “How did you like those sausages?” After a momentary pause, our crusty old codger ventured this: “Well, after ya cut the heads and tails off and gut them out, there ain’t much to ‘em”.

On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 we found…