January 2007
8 posts
Fighting ATM Fees
All this talk about ATMs and fees has me shaking my head. There was Jack Layton, standing on a frigid Toronto street corner last week, condemning the nation’s banks for charging customers for using their ATMs. Layton was damning the banks for charging customers who didn’t have accounts with them – the competition’s clientele – for using their ATMs. During his demonstration, he...
Fighting ATM Fees
All this talk about ATMs and fees has me shaking my head. There was Jack Layton, standing on a frigid Toronto street corner last week, condemning the nation’s banks for charging customers for using their ATMs. Layton was damning the banks for charging customers who didn’t have accounts with them – the competition’s clientele – for using their ATMs. During his demonstration, he...
Gone, but not forgotten
Our good friend Donny Rummy may have left the U.S. administration, but his linguistic legacy lives on, thanks to the BBC. Here’s a link to their audio library of quotations Donald has graced us with over the years. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/bh/rumsfeld.shtml I can’t help but see the parallels between his verbal mess concerning “knowns” and Chretien’s...
Gone, but not forgotten
Our good friend Donny Rummy may have left the U.S. administration, but his linguistic legacy lives on, thanks to the BBC. Here’s a link to their audio library of quotations Donald has graced us with over the years. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/bh/rumsfeld.shtml I can’t help but see the parallels between his verbal mess concerning “knowns” and Chretien’s...
A word on the current Best Buy television ad...
(originally posted Dec. 12, 2006) Yes, the ads are really annoying - that goes without saying. But just in case you men out there haven’t clued in to the fact that advertising doesn’t always tell the truth, listen up. This just might save your relationship One of Best Buy’s holiday commercials shows a husband shopping for his wife. He asks the male sales rep for suggestions, and...
A word on the current Best Buy television ad...
(originally posted Dec. 12, 2006) Yes, the ads are really annoying - that goes without saying. But just in case you men out there haven’t clued in to the fact that advertising doesn’t always tell the truth, listen up. This just might save your relationship One of Best Buy’s holiday commercials shows a husband shopping for his wife. He asks the male sales rep for suggestions, and...
Political conventions are funny things…
(originally posted Dec 6, 2006) The Liberal leadership race took place this past weekend in Montreal. Now, as a self-confessed political junkie, I can’t help but comment on the shenanigans. First off, it all sounded like a lot of fun. I wish I could’ve been there – not as a card-carrying, ballot-voting Liberal, but just as a fly on the wall. Why? Well, the Liberals, it seems, know how to party. At...
Political conventions are funny things…
(originally posted Dec 6, 2006) The Liberal leadership race took place this past weekend in Montreal. Now, as a self-confessed political junkie, I can’t help but comment on the shenanigans. First off, it all sounded like a lot of fun. I wish I could’ve been there – not as a card-carrying, ballot-voting Liberal, but just as a fly on the wall. Why? Well, the Liberals, it seems, know how to party. At...
