- Jun 9, 2022
- 3 min
VIRGINIA WOOLF: TWITTER'S PATRON
Folks of all temperaments and occupations keenly share their belief that the Information Age is uniquely foolhardy and strident. They...
- May 27, 2022
- 21 min
SHE LOVES HER GUNS
After America's most recent and notable mass shooting, Heather Cox Richardson, professor of nineteenth-century American history at Boston...
- May 13, 2022
- 4 min
WHY YOU TRANSMIT
Twenty-nine months into this pandemic I'm still running into folks who think that being immunized means they're immune to infection and...
- May 6, 2022
- 7 min
FROM MEDIAN INCOME TO MONEY LAUNDERING
I've been writing about this for twenty years and it's as excruciatingly tiresome as it is bleak, like watching a slow motion immolation....
- Apr 1, 2022
- 8 min
WHAT ARE WE SEEING?
I'm seeing mostly egregious war reporting and from every channel. Regarding the situation in Ukraine, ludicrous claims are continuously...
- Mar 18, 2022
- 6 min
YOU ARE NOT HERE
I’m sure we can all agree about much on the humanitarian side of this Russia/Ukraine thing. The attacks on civilian infrastructure,...
- Mar 11, 2022
- 7 min
'IT'S TIME TO GET BACK TO WORK'
It’s always a mistake to read the news. Reading local news tends to be worse still. I know this and yet I do it anyway. Here’s just one...
- Mar 6, 2022
- 11 min
TRAFFICKING
There have been a bunch of human trafficking cases in the news here in Canada in recent weeks and months. As ever, reading all these...
- Feb 28, 2022
- 6 min
WHAT I LEARNED IN UNIVERSITY
Perhaps the most important lessons I learned in university were not part of any curriculum or found in an assigned reading. They also...
- Feb 24, 2022
- 16 min
SCALE AND PERSPECTIVE
Someone once asked: If I’m not mistaken, you are arguing for humanity banding together to protect ourselves from a plethora of potential...