Opinion

\The moon was at first quarter Oct. 31. We see the moon’s apparent westward motion caused by Earth’s eastward rotation, when, in fact, the moon advances eastward by 12.2 degrees each day. If you multiply 12.2 times 29.

Dear Editor I believe we are in desperate need of having two levels of psychiatric inpatient care across the province. When there is only one level of care, both voluntary and involuntary patients are housed together.

For those paying attention to provincial politics, the contents of the throne speech Oct. 24 didn’t contain any surprises.

Statistics are bandied about daily in the media, and making sense of what they mean is certainly beyond me. A story about job numbers will appear, claiming a certain number of new jobs have been created over a given time period.

Twenty-five years ago, a cop beat on me. Why? I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and it’s all the Blue Jays’ fault, and their home, Skydome.

When Jack and John Morrow opened the Shell Lake Hotel in 1957, only men were allowed in the beverage room. On Saturday nights, while the farmers were enjoying each other’s company in the bar, their wives often had nowhere to go.

I told Ed, my old neighbour in Saskatchewan, that my memory is not hunky dory anymore. I gave a wrong answer when leading Bible study last Sunday and was hung out to dry with a quick correction.

Even when it comes to issues as complex as climate change and the carbon tax, there usually is a bottom line. And that bottom line is driven by common sense.

According to the forecast it was supposed to be sunny and warm; not only that those early morning clouds were supposed to break up, letting in the full glory of an autumn day.

Another topic for today: boxelder bugs, otherwise known as maple bugs. This little critter is one reason to hope winter arrives soon, but not a strongly compelling one.