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 ...
Disaster Movies
Friday, January 2nd, 2009 Posted in canada, education, politics, quotes, science, thought | No Comments »As a captive to the vision of the director, you, the audience of a disaster movie, are presented with a character or set of characters with which to sympathize. Of course, they are likable, or at least have some redeeming ...
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 ...
Blog Action Day: Vegetarianism and the Environment
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 Posted in economics, environment, personal, politics, science, thought | 2 Comments »I was really disappointed when - on Blog Action Day of all days - real life once again disrupted my usual posting schedule. It has been a really crazy couple of days, so my entry is a depressing three days ...
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. ...
Let’s Talk About Tolerance…
Monday, June 25th, 2007 Posted in gender, politics, thought | No Comments »Earlier today, when going through my RSS feeds, I stumbled upon an old post from the mental_floss blogs about bedtime storybooks with strong political agendas. The two main culprits are a couple of books (one from each side, appropriately) ...
…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." ...
Canada isn’t *that* important…
Monday, March 12th, 2007 Posted in canada, education, politics, thought | 1 Comment »As part of my (Canadian) high school's Social Studies (read: history and government) curriculum, everything we study has a distinctly Canadian bias. This means that, while we cover major events of the twentieth century like World Wars I and ...
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 ...
Recommendations for public education
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006 Posted in education, opinion, politics | 1 Comment »I've been engaging in a lot of criticism lately, I know. I should be more focused on developing my own ideas rather than deconstructing others', but when this article regarding suggestions for the American public education system made by ...
