Ough-Zone (John Ough)

AS A LONGTIME WRITER OF LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I  hereby claim to have won a gold medal in the   Canadian Letters-to-the Editor cat...

I think I must have missed something during the past several months coverage of the Nigel Wright—Mike Duffey affair. Why was it necessary fo...

Give me my money back stupid... The Liberal government that was in office a dozen years ago owes me about $25, plus the compound int...

A Long Weekend on Hitler's Yacht                     Christmas 1947 After taking passage on the maiden voyage of a freigh...

Personalizing Television My addiction to tranquility all started off with baseball games on TV.    It just had to.  They were ju...

Whoever would have thought it… Some important news items and scientific insights you             may possibly have missed… •      Me...

  Let’s liven up the Christmas Holidays with more Canadian Pantomimes Pantomime —the art  or technique of conveying emotions, action...

Dateline: November 1, 2011 A brief rewrite of pertinent Middle East history           How the non-delivery of two formidable Bri...

  No sooner do I make a promise (see end paragraph of my last blog) than I break it. Though I do offer in excuse that though the pet...

During the many years I spent working, living and carousing with hard-headed competent seaman and airmen comrades, both afloat, in the a...

A Letter to old Squadron Pals And now, look at this — out of a clear blue sky and just when I thought I might relax and concentrat...

What could possibly be the meaning of it all? Monty Python is not the only human entity to repeatedly ponder this puzzling question du...

A Needless Profuseness of Entwining Palms Health authorities rightfully blame our ingrained human physical necessity to constantly...