It’s been a slow week for good web reading, but at least a couple of interesting stories caught my eye over the past seven days or so.

Author and Journalist Barry Hertz on His New Book and The Fast & Furious Family. I’m currently reading Hertz’s book, and this feature in The Gate gives you a good look at his background with the Fast and Furious franchise and how in-depth his reporting goes. As a longtime fan (in just the past two weeks alone I’ve had the opportunity to interview Sung Kang, as well as a curator at the Petersen Automotive Museum about the upcoming 25th Anniversary Legacy exhibit), I am very much enjoying Hertz’s work. Highly recommend this book.

Canada Once Had Nukes. We Might Need to Bring Them Back. I’m adding this link because I fundamentally disagree with this premise (which I am seeing more and more of in the Canadian media), and this offers me an opportunity to make that statement. Canada gave up nuclear weapons decades ago, and in fact, were the first country to do so. Proliferation doesn’t make Canada safer, it makes the entire world more dangerous. There are several excellent books about Canadian nuclear policy that eloquently make this point. Do we really need a world where we have to worry about someone dropping a nuclear weapon on Riviere-du-loup again?