DAWN Kalenda was taking her 15-year-old daughter Zizzella to school in her electric car. As she exited the garage she heard the beep of her pay-per-km meter start recording. It didn’t matter very much because the first few kilometres were not that expensive; it was only when drivers went more than ten kilometres that the […]
Green Day is gonna Green Day. The mostly irrelevant band that tries to maintain an edgy reputation welcomed 2024 by appearing on ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest. Green Day’s big hit, “American Idiot” was performed, as usual, but there was a twist this time. Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong, who […]
IF, LIKE many of us, you tend to get mixed up with dates and days over the Christmas period, spare a thought for the bemused French 230 years ago. At the end of 1793, they were trying to get their heads round a new republican calendar imposed by the revolutionary Jacobin government to replace the […]
As you celebrate New Year’s Day remember that for one thousand years the welcoming of a new year was not just a calendar event, but a culturally religious event which linked the renewal of nature with the redemption of the world. Some atheists, Muslims, and Christian fundamentalists like to grumble and gibe that the celebration […]
Tis the season for swatting. The latest reported victim is Boston Mayor Michelle Wu. Her home was swatted on Christmas Day. The mayor was home at the time. Wu said she was shocked to open her door and see lots of flashing lights. She claimed, however, it didn’t disrupt her family’s evening. The police and […]
On Christmas morning, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia reported that she and her family had received an unexpected and unwelcome visit from law enforcement. “I was just swatted,” Greene wrote on the social media platform X. The incident occurred four days after a deranged individual made graphic death threats against Greene and her […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was swatted again at her home in Georgia on Christmas morning. “I was just swatted,” she wrote in a post on X/Twitter. “This is like the 8th time. On Christmas with my family here. My local police are the GREATEST and shouldn’t have to deal with this. I appreciate […]
A few years back, my husband slipped his hand into the pocket of a smart hand-me-down sports coat from my Uncle Allan. He felt something in his pocket and was surprised to find a ticket for the showing of a PBS documentary called “The Boys of ’36.” Uncle Allan had arranged to preview this […]
This is a revised version of an article first published on December 16, 2018. CHRISTMAS Day would not be complete without a rousing rendition of O Come All Ye Faithful with the last verse which is given an airing only today. There are many theories about the carol’s origins but an intriguing one connects it with Stonyhurst College, the […]
IT WAS Christmas Day at the Sunaks’ Their Yorkshire mansion was full of good cheer They were California dreamin’ They’d be Stateside in less than a year. When the PM unwrapped his presents His delight could not be surpassed He got a wallet to keep his Green Card in And Bermuda shorts styled at […]
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