Over the years I’ve taken my lumps from friends for loving Starship Troopers. Most who haven’t seen it assume it is a dumb sci-fi action movie. But listen to the directors commentary and the first two things you’re told is that the movie is about “how war makes fascists of us all” and that the [...]
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War makes facists of us all: Would you like to know more?
The Irony of Wente, Opinions, Blogs and Gender
Once again a Globe Columnist talks about technology in a manner that is not just factually completely incorrect but richly Ironic! Earlier today Margaret Wente published a piece titled “Why are bloggers male?” (I suspect it is in print, but who knows…). The rich irony is that Wente says she doesn’t blog because she doesn’t [...]
The PM’s Advisory Committee on the Public Service: The Good, The Bad, The Hopeful
On February 25th Paul Tellier and David Emerson – two men whose understanding of Ottawa I have a tremendous amount of respect for – released The Fourth Report of the Prime Minister’s Advisory Committee on the Public Service. It is a document that is worth diving into as these reports will likely serve as reference [...]
The 21st Century Bookclub
For the past six months I’ve been engaged in a fantastic experiment. 6 months ago my friend David Humphrey emailed three friends whose blogs he enjoyed. Each of us (Myself, Humphrey, Mike Hoye and Luke Hill really only knew Humphrey and were essentially strangers to one another. Humphrey proposed we each read each others blogs [...]
Articles I’m Digesting 15/12/2009
Here are some pieces I’ve been reading of late: You Can’t Handle the Truth by Mark Pothier in the Boston Globe A great piece about how the classification of drugs used by most Western countries is completely divorced from how much harm those drugs cause. This isn’t surprising, but as the evidence begins to mount [...]
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