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Mark Buchanan

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    Golfing In Hades
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    • May 17, 2012
    • 3 min

    Golfing In Hades

    My new friend Tony – ethnically Chinese, culturally Welsh – has managed what I thought no man could: lured me back into the game of golf. It's a hateful game. A soul-wrecking, aggravation-stirring time-waster. It plays to all our basest instincts: pride, delusion, anger, pettiness, rivalry. That a fellow Scotsman first concocted this awful sport and inflicted it on the world is to my everlasting shame. The idea of spending several hours snookering a ball around a booby-trappe
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    Santa, That Old Legalist
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    • Dec 20, 2011
    • 4 min

    Santa, That Old Legalist

    Two samples of the kind of letters children send to Santa Claus each year, c/o The North Pole: Dear Santa: You did not bring me anything good last year. You did not bring me anything good the year before that. This is your last chance Alfred ******* Dear Santa: There are three little boys who live at our house. There is Jeffrey, he is 2. There is David, he is 4. And there is Norman, he is 7. Jeffrey is good some of the time. David is good some of the time. But Norman is g
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    • May 20, 2011
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    Grace Abounding

    I read recently a report detailing an investigation into RCMP misconduct. One finding of the investigation: the RCMP were guilty of a "flawed process." There was botched handling of the situation, insufficient checks and balances, ignorance or negligence of procedural protocols, and the like. My single opinion about all that: being a cop is a tough job, and anyone subjected to the same level of intense scrutiny might likewise be found guilty of a "flawed process." But I got m
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