Change
Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in economics, news, opinion, politics, thought | No Comments »Let's talk change, folks. When I say change, I don't mean the forces in our own lives - I mean the political buzzword that's been adopted by supposed progressives nowadays. How about some word association? Be honest: what was the first ...
Anonymous: A Teaser
Saturday, March 15th, 2008 Posted in internet, news, religion, thought | 1 Comment »You may have heard about it recently in the news, depending on where you live. On February 10, 2008, the birthday of death-by-Scientology victim Lisa McPherson, the internet group "Anonymous" organized - without a notable leader or leaders - mass worldwide ...
I’m Looking at You, Digg
Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in gender, news, opinion, personal, politics, thought | 3 Comments »This isn't so much a post as it is a short rant. About - what else? - the 2008 presidential race. I understand that after the last eight years, we're all starving for change. Us Web 2.0 people probably feel that ...
I can rant once in a while…
Monday, August 20th, 2007 Posted in news, politics, vancouver | 1 Comment »Before the CUPE strike closed the Vancouver libraries, I managed to get in one last visit to the Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch - seven floors of literary fun housed inside a building with some sort of anachronic identity disorder. ...
…WTF? (+ politics)
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 Posted in canada, education, news, opinion, personal, politics, quotes, thought | No Comments »I usually try to save my links until Saturday, but holy crap. BOSTON - An adjunct professor was fired after leading a classroom discussion about the Virginia Tech shootings in which he pointed a marker at some students and said "pow." ...
Some thoughts
Friday, April 20th, 2007 Posted in canada, news, opinion, thought | No Comments »Earlier this week, I was writing a post for my blog that should have gone up a while ago. Unfortunately, the time at which I was writing it was at the start of my lunch period on Monday, April 14. ...
The *real* ethical dilemma
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007 Posted in canada, economics, news, opinion, personal, politics, science | 2 Comments »In light of current events, I've decided to briefly postpone my focus on the topics I mentioned earlier to address Friday's big announcement. By this I mean, of course, the "Climate Change 2007" release from the Intergovernmental Panel on ...
Internet-propagated ideas
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 Posted in internet, news, religion, thought | 1 Comment »As I type, an article titled 'Murdered for Being an Atheist' is at the top of Digg's popularity list, currently with 2392 diggs (approvals from Digg users). This morning, when I first checked my Digg feed, the article had ...
You.
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 Posted in internet, news | 1 Comment »TIME Magazine's infamous final issue of 2006, "Person of the Year: YOU," really deserves all the hype it's been generating in the news lately. If you haven't done so already, I suggest you pick up a copy before the ...
Local applications of price theory
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006 Posted in economics, news, thought, vancouver | 1 Comment »Recently, in Vancouver, we've had quite a bit of trouble with our water supply: the three reservoirs serving the region were all heavily contaminated after a week-long storm. Thankfully, the reservoir serving my suburban neighbourhood was cleared within a ...
