Old is the New New

Beards, bots, and were they hot?

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Closing the generation gap… with whisky, damnit.

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The Wichita, Kansas Public Library in 1952 was probably the last place on Earth you’d expect to get your mind blown.

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In which our hero tries his hand at that most diverting genre of blog posts, impotent griping about lousy customer service.

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Canada is a country with too much geography and not enough alternate history. Until now.

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Thank you, America, it’s been a hell of a decade.

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Why don’t North Americans play cricket? And what does this have to do with rebuilding Iraq?

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In which our hero lands a job, and bids adieu to the Chronicle of Higher Ed.

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Ann Coulter and Tucker Carlson vs. Canada. Nobody wins.

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Letters from the front: more on my grandfather, killed in action during WWII.

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Major Robert MacDougall, KIA January 1944.

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What’s the matter with Canada?

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O for the days when the worst thing Americans had to fear was the demise of league bowling.

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Old, Weird Canada: The secret origins of Flin Flon, Manitoba, and my Mom.

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