Arguing With A Saint Published October 20, 2011 Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. -Martin Luther In his letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul wrote that of faith, hope and love, it was love that was the greatest of the three. It probably isn’t smart to argue with a saint, …
Lying To Ourselves Doesn’t Make It Go Away Published October 6, 2011 A few days ago not far from where I live, an elderly man was beaten so severely by two teenagers he tried to stop from stealing a pumpkin that he was left in a coma. He died today and over nothing more important than …
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What Men and Women Really Mean In Their Online Profiles Published October 9, 2011 I had a friend who met his wife through an online dating site. I was single at the time so I thought I would try it. My friend and his wife seemed very happy and I thought it might just be …
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A Place Of Greater Safety In The 21st Century Published October 5, 2011 Two newspaper columns caught my eye today. The first was by Warren Kinsella writing in the Sun newspaper. Mr. Kinsella wrote a column about dirty politics which is more or less like having Dick Cheney lecture us on abuse of the rights …
A Scot and A Bear Try To Explain Government Debt – I said ‘try’ Published September 23, 2011 A very long time ago, my Uncle Jack and I got into a heated debate about government borrowing. He was an assistant deputy minister of finance in the federal government and he was adamant that I didn’t understand that it was …
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Precious Little Insight At Insite Published October 11, 2011 “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule” – Nietzsche Insite, the organization that recently won the right in the Supreme Court of Canada, to continue to provide safe-injection sites to heroin users is now advocating inhalation rooms …
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Safe-Injection Sites Published October 5, 2011 Most of the time, I strive to put a little irony or satire in my posts. I rant but I prefer to rant at absurdity with tongue in cheek because sometimes absurdity just makes you laugh despite the…well…absurdity of it all. Sometimes though, there is nothing funny in an issue, …
More Politically Correct Language Published October 11, 2011 We continue, as a society, to try and sanitize our language until it is virtually meaningless. We disguise the serious nature of an issue behind softer language designed to moderate the intensity of the issue it describes. I find it amusing and ironic that at precisely the same …
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