The articles collected here at one time graced my office door. Enjoy.

Interesting articles

• Tradition takes a bough. A Sunday Times article on mistletoe.
• A case of cheap vodka at the Bar. Hate our bar-coded existence? This article, which appeared in the Comment section of the excellent broadsheet The Independent in the autumn of 1995, is then a tonic for you. It is, in its way, a jibe at attorneys as well.
• The bottom line is, never trust a banker. The experts haven't a clue, says Simon Sebag Montefiore. This article, from the Sept 10, 1995, Sunday Times, argues why bankers cannot be trusted for their advice.
• Mary Lefkowitz has outraged some academics by insisting that Socrates was Greek, says Michael Gove. This news item, in The Times, is an indictment of the nonsense thrown up by those pandering to political correctness. More political correctness nonsense has been documented in The Times, this time involving place names in the US.
• Man has a new best friend, but the police don't want to know. This humorous article, from The Times, relates the sad tale of one person's experience with feline road-kill.
• Well brought up psychopaths 'make good stockbrokers'. Better than having serial killers on the loose, I suppose. If you like that article, then you'll be thrilled to learn that bullies become chairmen of boards. Surprised? Both from The Times.
• Blunders on the way to the bedroom, by Tim Lott, appearing in -- what else? -- The Times.
• Myth behind the idea of an unfettered global economy. Anita Roddick argues that the drive to deregulate free trade further is the last hurrah of an outdated theory; from The Times
• When tax revenues slip through the Net. The man with the laptop cannot be traced and taxed, so governments will have to cut spending
• The overinformation. We are weighed down with useless facts - but a remedy is at hand
• In cyberspace, nobody can hear you yawn - another opinion piece from The Times
• Just exorcise those pounds away; and big breasts are good for men - Tabloid topics from 2000
• Don't call me. I'll sue you - how to handle telemarketers
• I want a piece of this First People's Action - opinion from the National Post's Elizabeth Nickson
• Pragmatic anti-Semites - opinion from the National Post's George Jonas
• Religion is no pyjama party - the National Post's Father Raymond de Souza on disproportionate media coverage accorded to Wicca in a CTV documentary
• Bryan Appleyard, writing for the Sunday Times with commentary on fallout from Princess Di's death
• French philosophers just don't get the joke -- follow up in The Times about physicist Alan Sokal's spoof "po-mo" article
• Rise of the City rocket scientists - a Times article on how physicists, mathematicians and statisticians are beginning to dominate the world of commerce
• Tobacco taxes blamed for sharp rise in obesity - makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?
• When dad becomes a dirty word - Column by Donna Laframboise. From the National Post
• The cheque is in the mail, I swear - Going after Internet scammers. From The Globe and Mail
• Wasting money, stifling dissent - native governance abuses. From the National Post
• 1% of Canadians say they're gay: StatsCan
• Make the pie higher - misunderestimating Dubya
• Smog deaths: 0 - air pollution is not the big killer some say it is
• Verify climate science - It wouldn't have taken six years to detect flaws in the `hockey stick' study if independent verification was encouraged more. From the National Post
• Environmental `science' killer hypocrisy - a sharp letter to the editor of the National Post
• Dying for a cultural fantasy - an editorial in the wake of calamities on the Kashechewan reserve
• Mathematicians are the new must-have employee in the business world