Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – The wars and soldiers we seem to have forgotten

November 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die. — Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the Charge of the Light Brigade TALK TO war veterans, and one of their biggest worries is that [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Let’s be perfectly clear: men are not all potential rapists

November 4, 2017 // 1 Comment

THE CURRENT public debate on sexual harassment and assault prompted by the #MeToo campaign brought to mind a front-page headline years ago in the Kamloops Daily News. In [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – We need less freedom of expression, not more

October 28, 2017 // 4 Comments

Bad things happen when we become too free with our speech. We stop taking responsibility for our own words. We forget our humanity. We become feckless trolls, bullies and [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – We need to laugh more about parking tickets and colonoscopies

October 21, 2017 // 4 Comments

“JACK KNOX is a friend of mine,” I told the mayor of one of the infinite number of municipalities that make up Greater Victoria. I say this every time I run into [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The line between curiosity and invasion of privacy

October 14, 2017 // 2 Comments

PRIVACY is hard to come by these days. The world has become a place without filters, where the best and the worst in us have full range of expression, and where lives can be [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Retirement is OK, after work and on weekends

October 7, 2017 // 3 Comments

RETIREMENT is hard work. Five years ago I wrote a column on my first day of official retirement. I reflected on what it was like not going to work that day, attending to all [Continue]