

Oct 20, 20173 min read
THE STERNUTATION RESPONSE
We know why we sneeze. Sneezing (or sternutation) typically happens due to foreign particulate getting inside you and agitating the cilia...


Jan 20, 20173 min read
MEASURING WITH NO STANDARD
I don't think I understand the pending march on Washington. Some have said they're marching in the name of justice and in opposition...


Nov 3, 20168 min read
WE ALL LIVE
At 37 I've watched many acquaintances and friends and much of my family die. I feel like I've seen the gamut, and in everyone from the...


Mar 11, 20169 min read
BEING BORN
I only made it through the first season of Mad Men. As a television series set in an advertising firm at the end of the 1950s, I found it...

Feb 29, 20165 min read
STICKING TO ONE’S GUNS
The Archbishop of Toronto, Cardinal Thomas Collins, produced and long and insufferable video diatribe on physician-assisted suicide. His...

Feb 5, 20164 min read
STITCHES FOR PAPER-CUTS
Wow, this Valizedeh shit just won’t stop. In case you don’t know, Daryush Valizadeh (aka “Roosh”) is an American writer known (but mostly...


Jan 15, 20165 min read
SO MUCH HOT AIR
Downplaying the Islamic State shows not only our lack of courage and compassion but also our failure to learn from the past. I think of...


Dec 20, 20152 min read
I BELIEVE YOU
If you told me, clearly and specifically, that you went to Hawaii to swim with the dolphins and turtles I would say you had swimming or...
Feb 27, 20152 min read
ENDING THE CONFLICT
It feels like we’re having a really tough time with this. So let’s walk through it together. There is no conflict between freedom of...
Jan 11, 201512 min read
CHARLIE WHO?
Regarding the issues surrounding Charlie Hebdo, and the murders that recently took place in France, many folks I know have quoted or...
Apr 28, 20149 min read
AN ARGUMENT AGAINST COMPATIBILITY
As you are aware, virtually everything we take for granted as common knowledge today was at some point prior considered dangerous...


Nov 8, 20133 min read
BELIEFS and HOPES
Just so we’re all on the same page, a “belief” and a “hope” are two very different things that should not be confused. I might hope, for...


Jul 27, 201312 min read
THE UNRAVELLING OF REX MURPHY or A SHORT LESSON IN IRONY
Rex Murphy is a Canadian icon: a Rhodes scholar, an author, a popular voice in newsprint and on national television and radio. But I...

Dec 8, 201221 min read
TOWARD AN OLD CONSCIOUSNESS
I was recently given a report called Toward a New Consciousness: Values to Sustain Human and Natural Communities. The work was produced...


Aug 8, 20112 min read
FOR OUR SINS
First, if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth (“King of the Jews”) was the Messiah, or that he awoke from the dead, and that our...
Apr 9, 20108 min read
PRESCRIPTIONS
What I love the most about the Ten Commandments is that those stone tablets, we are told, were the only time God (G-d, Elohim, Yahweh,...


Jan 30, 201016 min read
THE DOOR
Alas, it was New Year's Eve and, against my keen hermit instincts and all logical reasoning, I had agreed to go out and “party”, whatever...
Dec 1, 20093 min read
MY KIND OF ADVENT CALENDAR
1) “Jingle bells” was composed in 1857 as a Thanksgiving song 2) Gift giving at Christmas was banned by the Catholic Church for being a...