It's always been curious to me that the handful of Titanic graves in Halifax are standard tourist destinations, but the mass grave from the Explosion is not. Titantic (1912) — 1,496 deceased. Halifax Explosion (1917) — 1,782 deceased + ~9,000 injured.

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There was a moment in the 1990s when Newt Gingrich was sneering about public funding for the arts and said something like "Arthur Miller didn't need government money!" and then Arthur Miller wrote an op-ed noting that he had, in fact, been saved in the Depression by Federal Writers Project.

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today's curmudgeon opinion: "trunk or treat" is bloody stupid and if you want to do Halloween, put on a costume and go out on October 31st, visit your neighbourhood, get lots of candy, go home

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Something benefiting you personally is not necessarily a good thing. Something that inconveniences you personally is not necessarily a bad thing.

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"Over at the Halifax sub-Reddit, some posters are dismissing the Examiner for being “biased,” which is rich coming from a bunch of people using aliases." I don't take seriously the comments about my credibility from people who refuse to use their real names.

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