http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ebb.and.Flow1022/A regular visionary and revisionary discussion of issues and personalitieshourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ebb.and.Flow1022/333448The Odds of Misrule—Stirring up the “Pot” Paradox What are the odds that a city would misgovern? Probably as long as the odds that trouble will result when we stir up the “Pot” paradox! Given the fact that we live in a society where annual gambling expenditures run to tens of billions of dollars,...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ebb.and.Flow1022/332377In the year 1959, Irving Layton won the Governor General's award for his collection of poems "A Red Carpet For the Sun." I was born that same year, but I didn't read Layton until nearly twenty years later. This is sad, in my view, because Layton was one of Canada's greatest poets. He had a strong...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ebb.and.Flow1022/330554The sixth year of the new millennium blustered and blew in with all the subtlety of a brash band today. Fires rage in Texas, Floods besiege the Napa valley. What wonders lie in wait? What pithy raptures or paltry ruptures will come home to roost in the year that lies ahead. The tide is ebbing and...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ebb.and.Flow1022/327037You might not believe, it but Shirley MacLaine is currently playing the elderly Mrs. Robinson to Kevin Costner’s now-fully-grown “graduate.” It’s time somebody got the doo-doo on this aging diva. That’s right. You read it here first. I’m gonna make it my mission to bring out the pooper-scooper...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ebb.and.Flow1022/317717Intentionally sitting in the front row of a movie theatre makes me want to throw popcorn at the screen. I have always wanted to ridicule actors. The very idea that they deserve this larger-than-life position in the world rankles me. Just because they have forty feet tall head shots on the screen...