A Visit To The Gary Lautens Archives

Earlier this month the Lautens family made a visit to the McMaster University Archives in Hamilton to deposit a poster that hung in the window of the iconic Honest Ed's in Toronto for 30 years. The archivists do a great job maintaining his over 12,000 original columns, letters, photos and even his trophies and many awards for writing. You can read about it here in the McMaster Daily News.

It was great visiting it and seeing again many of the things that were around the house growing up.

I also got to have a look around their spectacular archive and hold both Bertrand Russell's Nobel Prize and Galileo's original 1632 "Dialogo".

The old CRA scam.

Not a very convincing CRA/IRS scammer who says all he can do if I don't call back is to "wish me luck".

New S+S podcast on iTunes - Brexit, referendums and the madness of crowds.

Join Steven Kerzner and me as we pick through the rubble of the #Brexit vote in the UK, and reflect on the wisdom of giving weighty and complex issues to the people via a referendum.

iTunes version: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/brexit-why-democracy-can-no/id1115988749?i=1000371602205&mt=2

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/stephen-steven/the-brexit-and-why-democracy-can-no-longer-be-trusted-to-ignorant-voters