37 posts by tquinlan

He wasn’t sure, Stanley Pivot, that is he, whether the burning pilot in an iron cage was guilty enough to warrant death by fire. Bomb those who are ISIS favoured? I think not.

Whatever happened to forgiveness and diplomacy? Why is it that corporate monies always seem to be involved with causes?

Israeli Administration daily releases the total number of Hamas rockets that have fallen on the occupied lands they call their own.

A recent letter to the Expositor which was not printed, but should be heard. Given that an election of a major for Brantford, Ontario is forthcoming, I thought that I should make a few observations for the candidates to respond to. 

The following sentences are memorial of the death of Berkin Elvan a 15 year old Turkish boy who was struck by a teargas canister shot by police who were sent to disperse protesters of the building of a mall in Gezi Park. Berkin was on his way to the store to buy bread for his family. […]

There aren’t but a few citizens in North America, if not the world, who don’t know the craziness of American gun laws, at the State and Federal level. For example the Stand and Deliver rule in Florida or the Right to Carry law in any number of states. 

Robben Island, South Africa’s Alcatraz, had not suffered a loss for 27 years, until the S.A. government released its most notorious tenant according to what it had decreed. Life imprisonment was the unexpected verdict, but twenty-seven years was all that was served, the rest of the world deeming finally that the penalty was too harsh […]

There’s a cow and a bull outside the small five-house complex where I live and every now and then they talk to one another or to their owners to merely note that they’re still afield or fro that person to come and move the forage closer to where sac of them are pinioned to rope […]

Recently Stanley Pivot had been listening to an AM radio station that plays clips of well known stand-up comic’s and the longer he listened the more he disliked what he heard. The laughter from the audience which was apparently there before the comic began to seem to Stanley to be nothing more than a laugh track stuck in behind […]

He Said: “The more I read the cables [720,000 of them] the more I came to the conclusion that this type of information should become public • • . I thought that these cables were a prime example of the need for more open diplomacy”