One chilly fall afternoon a class of engineering students from Montreal’s McSwill University were surveying the City’s Mont Royal with sophisticated hollowmeters they had developed for a project. This sophisticated device allowed one to determine the thickness of any mass which would also determine if there were any hollow areas in the mass. They discoveredContinue reading ““Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 79 “Is Montreal to Become Home for an American Nuclear Base?””
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RKS Wine: Penniless Pensioner Visits Bordeaux
The Penniless Pensioner is reluctant to travel this year wishing to wait until the dust settles from COVID-19. The Penniless Pensioner quite frankly has told me his pension income from his Canadian Pension Plan puts him below the poverty line. So he can’t really travel until he wins the lottery and he can’t afford moreContinue reading “RKS Wine: Penniless Pensioner Visits Bordeaux”
“Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 78 “The Nationalist Enslavement of Quebec Continues”
Jiber’s crew was ecstatic with Jiber’s words and they applauded wildly as finally the months of boredom would be terminated and like pirates there would be action. Soon they would return home to Zortixia to vindicate those who had expelled them from their homeland. Jiber did add, “However not all of you must act asContinue reading ““Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 78 “The Nationalist Enslavement of Quebec Continues””
RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner: A Stunningly Delicious and Affordable Wine from Campania
A couple of years ago courtesy of the EU I was off to Naples, the capital of the Campanian wine region in Italy. Such incredible food, archeological sites and of course wine. I was at Southern Italy’s biggest wine show Vitingo in Naples and was also ferried about to some incredible wineries and co-operatives. FantasticContinue reading “RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner: A Stunningly Delicious and Affordable Wine from Campania”
RKS Wine: More Penniless Pensioner Wines: South Africa’s Alvi’s Drift Signature Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
In today’s Liquor Control Board of Ontario’s monopoly any wine under $15 falls into the Penniless Pensioner Category. The question of course is it any good. Cheap does not mean plonk. It may help there is no glowing review accompanying its description in the LCBO Vintages Catalogue which might keep the cost down. Geez itContinue reading “RKS Wine: More Penniless Pensioner Wines: South Africa’s Alvi’s Drift Signature Cabernet Sauvignon 2019”
Stag’s Hollow From British Columbia Hits the Mark!
7 JULY, LONDON: Full results from the Decanter World Wine Awards 2021 have been released today, revealing big wins for established wine regions but also many hidden gems from producers making exciting wines across the globe. This year marks the biggest ever Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA), which is already the world’s largest and most influential wineContinue reading “Stag’s Hollow From British Columbia Hits the Mark!”
COVID-19 And Fungal Infections
COVID-19 and Fungi: A Nightmare in the Making India’s “black fungus” crisis signals a global problem INTERVIEW BY ANNALIES WINNY | JULY 1, 2021 Facebook Twitter Linked In Email Pinterest As India battles a devastating wave of COVID-19 cases, another crisis is waiting in the wings that could far outlast the pandemic—in the form of a chronic fungalContinue reading “COVID-19 And Fungal Infections”
Passage of the Day: Charles Dickens “Bleak House”: A Sarcastic Poke at the Law
“Equity sends questions to law, law sends questions back to equity: law finds it can’t do this, equity finds it can’t do that: neither can so much as say it can’t do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing and that counsel appearing for B; and soContinue reading “Passage of the Day: Charles Dickens “Bleak House”: A Sarcastic Poke at the Law”
RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner Selection: Greece’s Thalia Rosé
You know in Canada the Canadian government Canada Pension Plan pays way under the poverty line. If you haven’t had the income to stuff your Registered Retirement Savings Plan or Tax-Free Savings Account or never benefitted from a private pension plan you may be close to penniless when you retire assuming of course you aren’tContinue reading “RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner Selection: Greece’s Thalia Rosé”
“Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 77 “Jiber Fabricates and Transforms into René Hecklevesque”
The Jiber continued, “The Brits arrived in Quebec after the French and after a long struggle culminating in the Battle of the Plains of Brahms defeated the French. But they were calculatingly polite letting the French retain their language, schools and religion. The Brits should have crushed them like flies and wiped them out butContinue reading ““Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 77 “Jiber Fabricates and Transforms into René Hecklevesque””
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