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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Economics, socialism, and a leftist defence
Thursday, December 14th, 2006 Posted in economics, opinion, politics, thought | 4 Comments »Once of the criticisms I often find in reviews of Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics--and believe me, most of them do mention this--is that it's too 'conservative', and not in a blatantly obvious way. The reviews seemed to note that ...
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 ...
