Politics and its Discontents

H/t Greg Perry Still not convinced? Perhaps these letter-writers can help: Local governments all over the world are declaring a climat...

Outside of politics, my other passion is the environment, something we continue to degrade at unprecedented rates. The biggest threat to h...

I came upon this excerpt of a much longer poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Owen's blog this morning in his Daily Literary Quote s...

For obvious reasons .

Because he doesn't maintain his own blog yet offers blistering commentary that lacerates the pretensions of his subjects, I am once m...

The only trouble is, everytime he does, he affirms his incompetence. Yes, young Tim Hudak, the leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservat...

Although I have written on this topic before , I think it merits a return visit, given the environmental disasters currently engulfing ...

Despite postings I have made on both critical thinking and avoiding fallacies of reasoning, I am well-aware that my own thinking and writin...

Last year, I wrote a post on the power of the documentary . In it, I discussed how a good nature documentary can very powerfully help us...

I have been writing lately about environmental degradation and the bleak future that seems to await us. On that theme, (and because I have...

And, I suspect empty ones at that as energy giant Enbridge Inc. denies any role in the Harper government's cancellation of a grant from...