There are few worse ways to wake up on a lazy Monday morning than by hearing that the leader of the opposition, a true visionary who brought his party to a historic breakthrough, has died of cancer. Seriously, fuck cancer. There’s nothing I can say that hasn’t already been said, but I am nevertheless happy… [Read more…]
August 7, 2011
I’ll start with the bad news: the culture war has already begun. Remember back in the spring of 2010 when EKOS pollster Frank Graves brought this up? “I told them that they should invoke a culture war. Cosmopolitanism versus parochialism, secularism versus moralism, Obama versus Palin, tolerance versus racism and homophobia, democracy versus autocracy. If… [Read more…]
July 4, 2011
I hope that my university friends, who are mostly staunch monarchists, don’t get too angry with me about this one. Seeing as the mainstream media is currently engaged fawning over the brief visit of a certain newly married couple from Britain, I can’t help myself. I don’t want to lop off anybody’s head; least of… [Read more…]
June 29, 2011
The most imporant defining characteristic of analytic philosophy is that it is terrible. That’s not what I’m going to write about tonight. The second most important defining characteristic of analytic philosophy is a bit more interesting: it is really big on definitions. Analytic philosophy is the foolish dream of breaking down questions like “do we… [Read more…]
June 28, 2011
I tried to write a post on the G20 anniversary yesterday, where I made a carefully constructed argument about the necessity to remember what happened a year ago in downtown Toronto or some other thing. It didn’t work. I found myself somewhat paralyzed as I tried to type it. For the first time in several… [Read more…]
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