People demand. People diss. People ditch.

I don't really know why some penmen among Chinese immigrants write slightly poetic articles over the poor and run-down Verdun area in Montreal.

Intriguing is the development of Morality Plays, following that of Mystery Plays, in the Middle Ages' Europe. I'm not sure how the relationships between them and Shakespearean dramas are.

"Having grown out of the religiously based mystery plays of the Middle Ages, they (Morality Plays) represented a shift towards a more secular base for European theatre."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality_play

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You know that man. You know he puts on a pious face. There are more people who know that than who don't.

(Continuum & spectrum) vs. (black and white)

"Good" and "bad" ... stand at opposite ends of a continuum instead of describing the two halves of a line
--Wayne Shumaker
--Excerpted from the item "continuum" in the Merriam-Webster 11th Collegiate Dictionary

RIM failed to escape its own echo chamber and missed the boat.

"May I have your name please?" J said to the assistant.

Well, the dilapidated state of Montreal's transportation infrastructure will cause tax hikes eventually, I suppose.

When a sovereignty government commits activities which would be capital crimes if they were done by civilians, how legitimate can the government be?

The brute fact is that a man needs money to survive. Anyone who ignores that fact, which rules their biz partners, is doomed to fail.

"Men turn, and see the stars"

The Odyssey's epigram, which was written by A. Lang, is so sublime.

Excerpt:

MEN TURN, AND SEE THE STARS, AND FEEL THE FREE        10
    SHRILL WIND BEYOND THE CLOSE OF HEAVY FLOWERS     AND THROUGH THE MUSIC OF THE LANGUID HOURS, THEY HEAR LIKE OCEAN ON A WESTERN BEACH   THE SURGE AND THUNDER OF THE ODYSSEY.

When two or more people collaborate, some efforts will go down the drain, why? Think about that.

Will the epilogue of the current economic recession spell the shrinking of the pattern of consumption on credit?

Americans and Canadians like to cram pizzas. Well, it's not my cup of tea, yet(?).

Our infant daughter likes to cuddle her teddy bear, naturally.

Berlin has been called "a chameleon city" by some people due to the importance of its international culture.

Are most free-range chickens free-range capons?

Only years and years of smart labor in an industry can thrash out wisdom and competitive edges.

How well known are the whiskeys of Canadian provenance?

The finiteness of the number of steps is the key requirement of recursion.

Actually, finiteness must be crucial in the theory of computability.