Pre- and Trans- Rational

I came across a great little story in an article a few days ago.  It was an interview with a Native American elder down in the South-West.  When asked about the danger of uranium he responded by saying that the uranium did not want to be brought up from under the Earth.  It wanted to [...]

Tolerance within the Left and Right

I saw an interesting poll today on CNN which answered something that I’ve wondered about for a while.  The question was “Do you feel that your way of life is superior and right to the exclusion of others?”  There was a very clear pattern in the answer.  The question was answered “yes” by 63% of [...]

Herman Cain endorses Gingrich

I suppose that it is very hard to understand and predict the way that Republican conservatives may think.  After all, look at the social conservatives who champion family values but supporting Gingrich, who is not exactly the poster boy for conservative or Christian family values.  So who knows how they’ll respond to this latest development. [...]

Game of Thrones

On a lighter note, I just finished Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin.  When I first laid eyes on it I was not only intimidated by the daunting 800 pages of the first volume, but even more-so by the fact that it is at least a five volume series.  I have a lot [...]

A Language Older Than Words

Several years ago, the last time I was in Moab, Utah, I visited the renowned Back of Beyond Bookstore and picked up a volume by Derrick Jensen called A Language Older Than Words.  When I got home it got put on the bookshelf where it’s sat until a few days ago when something prompted me [...]

Mysterious Disease Hits New York High School

The story is about 10 days old now, but little has been added to the original information.  I hope this is not one of those stories that fades away without follow up.  Over the past three months at LeRoy High School in New York State, a strange story has unfolded involving 15 high school girls [...]

Obama and Reagan on the same page?

Short and to the point.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

What do you do when you have a complex Spy/Mystery story from a long novel that you want to turn into a movie?  No matter how you write it, it’s just too long. Well one thing you could do is just throw away every second page of the script.  That’s what I think they must [...]

The True Cost of Piracy

I’m fully aware that this entry might be interpreted as a rationalization of piracy.  The facts, however, shed some interesting light on the claims that the media industries and the lawmakers want us to believe.  Whatever the ultimate judgement on the issue of piracy, it is clear that there is a lot of information in [...]

South Carolina Exit Polls – Between The Lines

We never get political Reality TV like this in Canada. By far the most interesting and revealing analysis of last night’s S. Carolina Primary can be found in the CNN exit polls.  Certainly exit polls are not perfectly accurate (although the predictions seemed to be pretty bang on last night), but nowhere else can you [...]

Stranger Than Fiction

Yes, this is a real news story.  I wonder if it’s possible to secure the film rights, because this one has the potential to be turned into anything from a political drama to dark humor to courtroom blockbuster. It starts with four senior citizens from a Georgia militia being arrested for plotting an attack on [...]

What’s a Liberal?

In the recent Canadian federal election the Liberal Party suffered a major implosion, losing more than 50% or their already weak number of seats in the House of Commons.  While much of the reason behind this failure can be attributed to the crucifixion of their leader, Michael Ignatieff, much of it also came from weak [...]