Monthly Archives: April 2012

Heaven on Earth

(Published in Daily Times, 25 April 2012.  This is the 7th installment in the series “Across America & Canada by Road″.  All can be read here under the “Here & There” category)

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Through Prairie to Paradise

(Published in Daily Times, 18 April 2012.  This is the 6th installment in this series.  For the first four installments, go to “Across America & Canada by Road, Part-1″)

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Pak Hospitality on Canadian Prairie

This is the fifth instalment in this series.  For the previous four instalments, go to “Across America & Canada by Road, Part-1”

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Crime and (divine) punishment

If natural catastrosphes are divine punishment for sinners, then it must be accepted that they are inflicting massive collateral damage.  If they are intended as warnings to evil-doers, then, I am afraid, these are mostly being delivered to the wrong … Continue reading

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Military muscle and myopia

Some generals, even captains, think they can succeed where civilian leaders are perceived or alleged to have failed.  They make short shrift of elected governments for corruption, even failure to make the trains run on time.  Truth is, as the … Continue reading

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