Are women influential? I mean, influential enough to count on a list of history’s most influential characters? Maybe it depends on who’s keeping count.
Blogger Sampson T. Buckburn recently began compiling such a list, an admittedly subjective, if not impossible, exercise. But I couldn’t help but notice at 21 influential characters and counting, from Tecumseh to [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Cheeky monkey
Posted in British Columbia, tagged climate change, Pets by proxy on November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This greedy little guy is one of Canada’s cheekiest birds – the Gray Jay, better known to skiers and hikers as the Whiskey Jack.
Thanks to climate change, these irrepressible mountain birds are hungrier than ever. That’s because their food caches are now unexpectedly thawing and growing mouldy weeks before winter’s grip ends.
So if you’re [...]
What the fuzz?
Posted in British Columbia, Exiled in Suburbia, White Rock B.C., tagged cross-border issues, Helicopter Surveillance, White Rock on November 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Aug. 24, 2006 – If you live right next to the largest, undefended border on Earth, you gotta put up with a little overhead surveillance from time to time.
Once in a while, you’ll hear the rumbling thump-a-thump of an American helicopter that’s swept across the line in pursuit of some freelance – and therefore unauthorized [...]
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