Jun 25, 20242 min read
NON-REACTIVE
I want to love nuclear. I really do. But there’s so little to like and proponents continually refuse to win me over. Here’s just one more...
Jun 22, 202433 min read
DIAMOND'S IN THE ROUGH
Some folks really hate Jared Diamond. And those folks love hating Jared Diamond. As a good polymath, Diamond (with backgrounds in...
Jun 19, 202413 min read
HELL LET LOOSE
MI-CHAEL: I dunno. It’s like how I play this game. It’s a kind of World War II simulation. The creators have attempted to faithfully...
May 31, 20243 min read
MISNOMER
I don’t know how I got here. Somehow I developed this crazy belief that firefighters fought fires. Crazy, right? My bad. Per capita,...
May 27, 202417 min read
ARE YOU ABETTING, MAN?
Two people are having a conversation over the phone. One is in a typical Singapore apartment complex. Lush green trees are all around....
May 23, 202413 min read
I'M ALL FOR BURNING BOOKS (AND SO ARE YOU)
You read that right. I’m all for burning books, as I'm pretty sure you are. Just because you can conjure a pithy line you heard in a film...
May 14, 20242 min read
SYSTEMIC OR DISCRETE?
For years we were hearing about the replication crisis in the world of psychology; how so much accepted work in the field had never been...
May 13, 20246 min read
JOURNALISM AND PERCEPTION or REMEMBERING JOHN PILGER
Thinking about journalism and public perception, I was reminded today that in 1979 Australian journalist John Pilger entered Cambodia....
May 8, 20247 min read
TRINITY
I haven’t written anything about the encampments, the ones that have sprung up seemingly over night, like springtime mushrooms, on the...
Apr 28, 202414 min read
GAZALIGHTING or WHO ARE YOUR HEROES?
No one finds it the least bit interesting when folks suddenly flip reality on its head and offer up the very arguments they just finished...
Apr 17, 20249 min read
SOLVED
Last September the CMHC came out with a study suggesting that for Canada to reach housing affordability last seen 20 years ago “an...
Apr 17, 20245 min read
REDUCTION OR PRODUCTION?
If you’re the chief coroner, hold an executive position in public health, or are the independent representative for children and youth or...
Apr 11, 20242 min read
PREDICTING THE FUTURE
On April 12th, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld sent George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice and email titled “Predicting the Future.” The...
Apr 11, 20242 min read
UP 2,245%
In Canada, any person or entity responsible for moving money around has obligations to help combat money laundering and the financing of...
Apr 3, 202412 min read
DISHONOURABLE DISCHARGE
Deborrah Smallrich — former army intelligence officer, new mother, and her household’s sole breadwinner — decided to leave her husband...
Apr 2, 20246 min read
CREDIT SCORE?
CBC - Federal plan would count rent toward a credit score. Wow. It's almost impossible for me to make sense of the level of detachment...
Mar 27, 20246 min read
I IMAGINE ALL OF THIS WILL HAVE CONSEQUENCES
As the leadership of Hamas has explained publicly, they expected, at the very least, for Iran and her proxies from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq,...
Mar 21, 202412 min read
ENIMAF
Regardless of what happens, what actions are taken or not taken, the same blood libel will be offered up. Israel will be accused of using...
