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A Cyclist’s Defense of Car Lanes

July 21, 2011

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I am not a driver. I have a license, and I occasionally drive the family car when I’m staying at home, but the personal automobile is not my preferred way to get around. I find it frustrating and stressful. Driving means taking my life into my hands as I control a one ton machine while it hurtles… [Read more…]

Jarvis Street, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, and the Politics of ‘Fuck You’

June 29, 2011

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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…]

One Year Later

June 28, 2011

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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…]

War on the Car? Hardly.

December 3, 2010

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I haven’t posted in about a month because I’ve been busy with a few other truly terrible things. I grew a truly terrible moustache for Movember, but strictly speaking that did not affect my ability to write this blog. More relevantly, I successfully completed National Novel Writing Month by writing 52,251 words of truly terrible… [Read more…]

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