Opinion

Time is one dimensions of spacetime. The other three are measurements of distance. We recognize the world around us as occupying height, width, and depth or x,y, and z or some variation of coordinates which tell us about the physical universe.

The bomb - that is, the atomic bomb - has been on my mind this week, as it was for all the world 74 years ago when Perry Como crooned: "A friend of mine in a B-29 dropped another load for luck.

Brooklyn, a movie by John Crowley, was on my watch list for a very long time. I've heard so many good comments about that, but I always hesitated to watch it. Maybe it was because of its story.

July has swung and out of my life like a barrel of deranged monkeys. The summer has brought with it its normal assortment of holidays, camping, day camps and unrelenting dashing about the province. It shouldn't feel this busy but it does.

Jewish-American songwriter Bob Dylan tells us, "Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings." We put democracy in peril when we equate questioning government policy with being unpatriotic or even racist.

Do you remember the thrill of being pushed on the swing by someone tall? Up, up, up, then released, and then down we went as the swing swung crazily to the right and left. Fun, but a bit dangerous.

Lucy (Campbell-Saliba) Young was born in the southern European island of Malta in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea in 1941. Her family, along with her aunt and uncle left the island on a Greek freightliner when she was 10 years old.

So a computer "glitch" has drastically misreported Grade 12 exam results for about 350,000 B.C. students.

I was pleased to hear that the B.C. Court of Appeals has struck down Victoria city council's ban on plastic shopping bags. While strictly a jurisdictional ruling, it's a start at ending these very fashionable bag bans.

"This is my Father's world, and to my listening ear, all nature sings and round me rings the music of the spheres.