“I claim your movie as my loud jittery pillow.”
“I claim your movie as my loud jittery pillow.”
Reality testing: measuring the long term impact of journalism
When Margaret Wente was getting busted repeatedly for plagiarizing, her publisher, The Globe and Mail, more…
I seen it
She was kind. But she was also ruthlessly attentive to my Northern Alberta dialect. Sometimes she…
Fresh approaches to skepticism
The skeptic social movement has been a big part of my social and intellectual world. In…
Vicwest caterpillar, a springtime phenomenon
Some years we have more. Some years we have less.
Cognition trick: the Google Effect
We’ve developed a habit of forgetting, or declining to remember, the information that is readily available…
The dream of proportional representation dies again; long live pro rep
I campaigned during the first and second referendums we had here in BC regarding proportional representation.…
The state of hyperlinking in journalism, a case study
From time to time I like to check in on how news orgs are doing with…
Paul Wells, conservatism, satire, and Maclean’s footprint
I like Maclean’s about as much as I like the National Post. They’re rightwing, partisan, and…