Maybe you are looking around for someone to blame for all the ink spilt, C02 emitted and tweets tweeted about Justin Trudeau’s South American adventurer’s beard. Neither should you single out this modern age of politics and its often ruinous companion, social media. My own inconvenient truth grew in as slowly as a late-seeded crop in dry land in a Prairie drought. Ho Chi Minh grew out his beard to appear more the village elder, the father of the country, Uncle Ho. He took young Grace’s advice and no doubt that of others, and grew that most iconic of beards.

Source: National Post January 13, 2020 19:07 UTC