Er, in the Konglish sense, where home town means “area from which one hails”. Here are some reasons to love my home province in Canada, which is Saskatoon. Actually, I don’t love the Roughriders, or many of the things on the list, but it’s neat to see the place being blogged about, just the same. (And the fact that the first general human rights act in North America was passed in Saskatchewan, before even the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights was passed.) The link was on The Worship Freehouse, a little religious collective in Saskatoon, my hometown, whose page …

(In case this shows up on Twitter or Facebook: this post is from 2005. I’m just publishing old posts that went unpublished, but should have been published…) * “The Pope’s health is not good.” Again, or is it still? What would happen if the Pope was completely batty from Alzheimer’s Syndrome or something? Not to wish it upon him, but the article I linked to said it’s impossible for the Pope to be asked to resign, though he may step down if he so chooses. (No pope has done so, however, according to the article, since the 13th Century.) Well, what …