Appeared in the North Shore News – December 20, 2013 No sooner had Ebenezer Scrooge’s amazing revelation and conversion occurred than he discovered the belief that no good deed goes unpunished. Scrooge’s widely reported initial conjecture that the apparition of his dead partner Jacob Marley was attributable to “an undigested bit of beef, a blot…
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Times taxing poor Scrooge
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition December 22, 2012 J14 VANCOUVER — Finance Minister Ebenezer Scrooge VI stared from his office window at the unpopulated square below. The building was empty, silent. His face was a study. Reflective? Troubled? Conflicted? Perhaps all. It had been a long road for the Scrooges from the…