I have a friend who’s decided to unplug herself. No, not suicide. She is disconnecting from her television, radio and the Internet.
As a pastime it is physically exhausting, mind-numbingly repetitive, potentially limb-threatening and eco-ethically tainted.
Arthur Black takes the side of the cartoon nudists in the battle in the woods
“Travellers checking into local hotels may be doing so without so much as a ‘hello’ to a human being next year, according to hoteliers.”
Suggested new law: give people who want to go overseas to kill people a one-way ticket
Sales are down, but there doesn’t seem to be much risk for the future of jeans
Obi Canuel wears a colander and he’s vexed that the ICBC won’t let him pose for his driver’s licence photograph while so adorned.
Of all the creepy things I know about Kim Kardashian (and they are legion) the creepiest is that she has fans.
Diamonds have the highest hardness and thermal conductivity, their name comes from the ancient Greek word ‘adamas’ meaning ‘unbreakable.’
I said it and I’m glad I said it. I do not golf, have never golfed, and, barring a brain transplant, never will.
Got the time? Arthur Black watches the history of time keepers
The kid shows up to fix my laptop, taps a couple of keys, shrugs and says “It’s dead. You probably need to replace it.”
In the beginning there was the straight razor. A single blade of finely honed steel.
Columnist Arthur Black laments the lost art of the great political oratory of decades past
Visiting Venice is not the soul-stirring spiritual experience it ought to be. It’s more like going to Disneyland on Discount Saturday.
Spacecraft mirrors the struggles of Canada's early pioneers
Calypso music could have replaced rock and roll - if it weren't for Elvis
The great writers are few and far between - but they do exist
It appears the Americans are coming over to our more liberal way of looking at the world
It seems that taking action for yourself is becoming a dirty word
