a storm

I hear other parts of town are just getting a drizzle or heavy rain. Well, we were getting quite the wind and rain just now.

That wasn't even the worst of it; my camera only gets video in 30-second chunks.

Ah well, the backyard tree seems intact; the only damage done seems to be a house plant that got knocked over in the wind. I wonder if there's much more due; we're still getting a fair bit of lightning and thunder. The radar map shows another big red blob down by Windsor aimed directly at us. :)

Hope everyone else is OK. ...Toronto, batten down hatches!

[edit to add: and now the birds are chirping again.]

WTF? on page L2 of today's Globe and Mail

Unfortunately, this column isn't on the Globe and Mail website. It's a new column called "Damage Control, A Weekly Guide to Surviving Social Scrapes" by David Eddie.


To: letters@globeandmail.com, damage@globeandmail.com

Concerning the Damage Control column in Tuesday's Life section ("The fix for your BlackBerry blunder? Lie"). When someone is caught emailing during a funeral, the only response with "a touch of class" is to acknowledge the stupidity of what he did, grovel for forgiveness in writing (not "an apology card" but a letter), accept whatever might come of the apology including likely no response at all, and in any case to move on, chastened and hopefully wiser but with one's integrity intact.

Advising that he should lie and spin to regain his dignity- what sort of dignity is that exactly? Knowing for the rest of his life that he lied to a friend whose father had just died? Daring his grieving friend to call him a liar? Setting himself up to eventually be discovered in the lie?

Aside from the many reasons why this is terrible advice for anyone, I'm most disappointed that the Globe and Mail saw fit to publish this kind of "Damage Control." I really did think you held to a higher standard than that.

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