Since our elected officials seem incapable of, or unwilling to, police themselves, it’s nice that every so often, domestic diplomats and foreign heads of state decided to pick up the slack. Thankfully, the past seven days have provided us with two glorious examples of why our politicos should really get their shit together.
Firstly, we’ve got [...]
Archive of entries posted on March 2010
It’s a fun job, and someone’s got to do it (calling out our political leaders, that is)
What a day to be a journalist
First thing’s first; this blog ain’t journalism. Approximately 119% of the blogs you read won’t be journalism. But a good number of people behind said websites probably are journalists. That may or may not mean they went to j-school, and it may or may not mean they have worked (or are working) in the industry [...]
Fuck, Ann Coulter was right — we DO hate freedom
Fear not, Ann Coulter is still a buffoon. But the takeaway message from her recent trip north (and the accompanying “controversy”) is that to some extent, Canadian society actually is a little bit terrified of actual free expression.
For rock-solid evidence, look no further than our preposterous human rights “commissions” and “tribunals”. Excoriated regularly (and rightly) [...]
The A to Z of Awesomeness
Last night, for some reason, my brain convinced my body that it was 19 years old again. Today, my body is angrily reminding my brain that is, in fact, not the case. So, since my body is siphoning away most of my brainpower — which I’d customarily use to craft a wonderful and witty blog [...]
Hey, guess what I’m doing for Earth Hour?
Answer: Absolutely jack shit!
Which is to say, not absolutely jack shit, in that I won’t be bundled up in a pitch-dark room, pretending that by acting like it’s 1835 for 60 minutes, I’m somehow helping to undo decades on planet-destroying pollution and over-industrialization.
Instead, I’m going to continue living my life as I normally live it, [...]
Misreading The News: March 26, 2010
With attention spans shrinking daily, folks have less time (or at least, they devote less time) to fully comprehend the world around them… especially the parts that don’t comply with their pre-existing beliefs and biases.
And with the explosive growth of the “new media”, people are likelier than ever to simply scan headlines, rather than reading [...]
We would have had her, if it weren’t for those meddling kids!
The trap was set. We had her. And then those danged rabble-rousing kids at the University of Ottawa had to step in and spoil everything.
I speak, of course, of American pundit Ann Coulter’s cancelled speaking engagement at the school last night, which was called off due to security concerns after scores of students raucously protested [...]
3D: Doomed Disastrous Debacle
In the tech community’s ongoing quest to transform our 2D world into a 3D one, the latest salvo has been lobbed by Nintendo, with today’s announcement that it plans to develop a 3D-enabled handheld gaming device, the Nintendo 3DS. But this development doesn’t exist in isolation: many observers think 2010 will be the year that [...]