Why are political parties so obsessed with the word “family”? Don’t single people, divorcees, unmarried couples, and the like also deserve some consideration? Why not “Stephen Harper has forgotten about Canadian people?”
January 28, 2011
I’m not going to try and say anything intelligent about what is going on in the Arab world right now. It’s too removed from my own reference frame for that. What is happening in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen belongs properly in the realm of emotion. Every politically engaged person should take a moment to reflect… [Read more…]
January 25, 2011
I’ve been hearing a lot of chatter from both liberal (small l) and Conservative circles that the recent slate of liberal ads are attack ads, and should be viewed as a tactic identical to the fallacious nonsense that the Conservatives recently vomited forth. Let’s have a look. Despite the cliched choice of voice actor, these… [Read more…]
January 23, 2011
I should probably rescind my use of the word “dumb” from the title of my recent post about running the government like a business. It was a simplistic term, which was designed more to attract attention than to accurately characterize my argument. Nevertheless, it seems to have worked. The morning after I wrote the post,… [Read more…]
January 22, 2011
I’m going to briefly comment on this, but I need to preface my post with two relevant details: 1) I’m becoming more conflicted about the whole Sarah Palin liable for incitement thing. There seems to be mounting evidence that the man who attacked Rep. Giffords was not politically motivated. 2) I realize that what Wikileaks… [Read more…]
January 21, 2011
A Google search for “run this city like a business” yields 3 440 results. Replace ”city” with “country“, and you will get 8 560 results. This is a very popular, and somewhat understandable, political sentiment. With a multi-billion dollar deficit, it’s easy to think that there is some fundamental, structural problem with the status quo… [Read more…]
January 19, 2011
My god these are stupid. “The world is a scary place, but don’t worry. Our hardworking leader will protect you from the nasty protesters and scary financial charts. Just look at this obviously staged footage of him working late at night!” I know it’s really cliched, and bordering on Godwinnian, to make allusions to Orwell… [Read more…]
January 18, 2011
Well, it looks like things are about to get a lot more exciting around here. The liberals are rattling their sabre, the Conservatives have responded the only way they know how, and it is starting to look more and more like we are headed for an election. I know it’s a long shot, but I… [Read more…]
January 17, 2011
Massive municipal subsidies towards car culture are not limited to Toronto. As Tim Bosquet reports, they’re alive and well out here on the East Coast: As the city wrangles with the question of whether it should subsidize the cost of operating the Common skating oval at an annual estimated cost of between $110,000 and $250,000,… [Read more…]
January 17, 2011
Two of my favourite feminist blogs recently posted about evolutionary psychology, a science best defined by its (arguable) founders, Tooby and Cosmides, in a recent paper on the subject: “Evolutionary psychologists view the human mind as a set of computational machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter±gatherer… [Read more…]
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