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Let My People Go, Part Deux: I Will Let You Help Me But On One Condition: Bend Over Please.
March 13, 2009
The demands of the auto industry continue to escalate. It really should come as no surprise but the audacity of it all continues to delight and disgust me in a curious way. Auto industry executives who, through their own mismanagement, have killed the viability of their very own industry are now using that outcome as […]
Obama’s State Of The Nation Address And The Other Guy
February 25, 2009
Tonight, I watched President Obama’s State of the Nation address to a special joint session of Congress on CNN.com. The speech was rock solid – which should come as no surprise. It hit all the right notes, managed to grapple with some policy details, and still managed to be moving — especially by the end. For […]
Ideology Is Not A Four-Letter Word: A Follow-Up
February 6, 2009
In a previous post, I lamented the misuse of the term “ideology” and “ideological” in recent political debate. Click here for the post. After hearing Obama and Jon Stewart both incorrectly employ the word, it finally occurred to me why people are misusing it. People are equating “ideological” with “partisan” which means, according to Merriam-Webster, […]
Ideology is not a four-letter word.
December 10, 2008
In December 2006, I returned to Canada, after living in New Zealand for five years, and was fortunate enough to find work as an Adviser to a Member of Parliament in February 2007. Having all but ignored Canadian politics in my time away, favouring Kiwi politics and political philosophy instead, I was immediately struck by […]
The Root of All Squares (Co-written with Sam Varteniuk)
November 29, 2008
Two men enter, STAN and WORKER. STAN is carrying a role of black tape. WORKER So I was pointing out irony to Uncle Hoary when a man walks in, leading a fat spaniel and carrying a birdcage. STAN stops, tapes a square approximately two feet square on the ground WORKER Why did you tape a […]
What should I do with my life? A plausible answer.
November 26, 2008
Poverty is one of the primary causes of suffering. So, 1) I will pursue an end which allows me to accumulate wealth and I will transfer some of it to a person living in poverty and/or to a person or organization working to eliminate poverty. The end I pursue will not itself directly contribute to […]
Art and Society’s Change
November 26, 2008
To characterize the affects and effects of persons as the affects and effects of art is an old and easy error that distracts persons from some basic facts: a person or persons, employing a variety of tools, sometimes can predictably affect their environment; a tool is a tool only because persons use it to affect […]
January 9, 2012
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