Nows and Forevers

I’ve been a vegetarian on and off for the past 37 years. Mostly on, but recently off. But I’m still bemused by the fact that fast-food restaurants, after years of ignoring vegetarians, are still trying to find the magic key to cater to them. The latest is Burger King, which in Asia launched what it… Continue reading

Another two days of smoke from Canadian wildfires have wafted over where I live, enough to give me more bouts of coughing. Thanks, Canada! Thankfully, it’s gonna now, or will be mostly gone this week. These fires are in the Canadian west, not the ones from Ontario and Quebec that made June and early July… Continue reading

I never thought I’d live to see the day that The New York Times would jettison its sports department. Yet that’s what it will do, instead leaning on its recently acquired digital sports platform, The Athletic, and shifting the 35 or so reporters and editors on the Times sports desk to other jobs. It’s running… Continue reading