DON'T PANIC! Well, maybe panic a little. Haven't you heard there's an emergency on? Grant Patterson, the author of A Life on the Line: My Unexpected Career in the Canada Border Services Agency, Bomber's Moon, and Slow Boat, follows up his previous collection of opinion pieces, Acts and Offences, Opinion, 2017-2020 with this eclectic, snarky, and wide-ranging collection of dispatches from our never-ending state of crisis. Whether it's bemoaning the state of our culture, our politics, or...well, moaning about other things, Patterson vies for the mantle of Prince of Pessimissm with another shot across the bows of the smug and self-righteous. So, be smug and self-righteous, and buy yourself a copy. It's okay when we do it.