Hours of focus
I don’t know how he does it. He has a kind of discipline that I don’t understand.
If he didn’t have a wife and family, I would guess that he’s a monk. Good luck Jasper Blake.
May the force be with you.
I don’t know how he does it. He has a kind of discipline that I don’t understand.
If he didn’t have a wife and family, I would guess that he’s a monk. Good luck Jasper Blake.
May the force be with you.
I’ve been wracking my brain trying to think of how to help stop the commercial trophy hunting of bears in BC, which is ongoing and totally unethical. But I’m pretty smart, so I put this problem in my mind-vice and I’m a genius…
One problem I have with so many conservatives and libertarians is their attachment to their untested (and often inconsistent) theories and ideas. To be fair, we’re all probably a little challenged by science and research that refutes our own beliefs. But when I followed a link to this article by the Guardian,1 I suddenly had…
On November 30th, Derek Abma wrote an article for the National Post, claiming that the journal Nature, and one of it’s authors, Elliot Diringer, was recommending that we let the Kyoto accord die. While the article gets many small facts and half truths right, Abma manages to misrepresent the essential argument by Diringer. But that’s…
I’ve heard countless pious prescriptions to do such and such, because “people fought and died for this right.” There are many versions of this cliché. They are all clichés. And they are all terribly lazy…
Democracy is not a single style of governance. Democracy is not simply about having elections. Democracies come in many colours and fashions. Democracy is a matter of degree and dimension…
That is sarcasm. Am I allowed to do that? Here’s a new video I made, trying to capture some of my frustration with modern politics.