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"To save a fool from his folly the gods themselves contend in vain." --Various, this wording Isaac Asimov

I cannot recommend the seasons and shows at Stratford and the Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake strongly enough. I must, however, include a trigger warning. . . WARNING: Snowflakes who are at risk of conniption fits from being exposed to actors of non-European ancestry playing "our" roles...

Makes me so angry I could borscht!

I stand with Ukraine against that murderous barbarian Poutine!

Do you think this attitude is common or significant?

I've heard of "running out the clock," but the first period is generally not the time to drag out that strategy.

Who you calling volatile, motherfucker? I WILL RIP OFF YOUR HEAD AND SHIT DOWN YOUR NECK! So, how's your week going?

The definition of "politician" is "a person who would cheerfully wade knee-deep through the blood of their own children to obtain or retain the smallest scrap of power."

These days? Mostly whiskey.

Just threw it together. I've been to both before (most recently last October). My favourite theatres are the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, the Folger Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, and...

Old people are afraid of everything.

If only you had free elections and due process of law!

That's substantial, as anybody who's ever been hit in the head by one is well aware.

How bad? Mexico? Venezuela? Iraq? Somalia? Sudan?

I'm told that's because they don't make the goodies in the back of the store anymore. It's delivered by truck from who-knows-where.

Looked OK when I was there. Timmy's is pretty much destroyed, though.

I will only comment if I'm given substantial financial compensation.

In order. . . 1. King Lear at Stratford. Powerful. Paul Gross is one hell of an actor. 2. On the Razzle at Shaw. Not a laugh a minute, a laugh every 30 seconds. Razor-sharp comic timing. 3. Playboy of the Western World at Shaw. A challenging play done very well. 4. Much Ado About...

Is "your" country destroyed yet?

Nah, conservatives want him to not exist. By whatever means.