Social Commentary
Days of Future Past
Aug 15, 2020
I recently read this quote, “I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy...
Body Politic
Aug 8, 2020
Media take a very different tack when reporting on women and men, even when the gist of the story is essentially the same. The actor John Goodman has struggled with his body size since...
Trans Substantiation
Aug 1, 2020
Political correctness has made public discourse an absolute minefield. People who say the “wrong” thing are facing swift and sometimes devastating...
The Harder they Fall
Jul 25, 2020
A couple of years ago ETFO decided that all schools named after Sir John A. Macdonald should be rechristened because of his mistreatment of aboriginal people. The union did not consult its members...
It's a Man's World
Jun 27, 2020
No thinking person could deny that we live in a patriarchy. Men have been in charge of the world for pretty much all of recorded history, with a few fleeting exceptions where women...
Don't Speak
Jun 20, 2020
I need to start this week by defining a few terms coined by George Orwell in his dystopian novel “1984”. “Newspeak” is language introduced by the totalitarian government...
Humble
Jun 13, 2020
Last week Justin Trudeau was asked by a reporter to comment on Donald Trump’s threats to mobilize the army against his citizens. After a very pregnant twenty second pause he said...
Ladies on Top
Apr 21, 2020
Yesterday I read an article in Forbes magazine concerning the countries which have mounted the most effective responses to the coronavirus pandemic. All of them have female leaders...
There Will be Blood
Apr 18, 2020
When asked why her team had lost the young women replied that she was off her game because of exhaustion brought on by her period. That was the first...
I Want a New Drug
Apr 14, 2020
I recently watched a heartbreaking documentary about thalidomide and the devastating birth defects if spawned in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Some 10,000 children worldwide...
The Elephant in the Room
Mar 24, 2020
I witnessed two things on my walk this morning that got me thinking. The first happened early on when I saw an EMT leave his ambulance and head into a house. He was wearing gloves...
Modern Leviathans Pt. II: Accountability
Feb 15, 2020
I discussed the growing problems related to privacy engendered by so much personal information being amassed by Facebook and Amazon in the first part of this blog. I would now like to...