Friday, February 13, 2015

An almost infinite jest

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I have rashly committed myself to reading David Foster Wallace's well-regarded, encyclopedic, postmodern novel "Infinite Jest"...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Gordie Howe victim of a marketing gimmick

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Gordie Howe was a great Canadian hockey player, and a great ambassador for the game since his retirement. The hockey world was saddened to h...

Crossing the house should not be allowed

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I still find it a bit difficult to believe that it is legal for a politician to "cross the House", as they say. It seems to happen...
Sunday, February 08, 2015

George Eliot has no balls

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Having just finished George Eliot's "Scenes of Clerical Life" , I feel like I should make a blog entry about it, if only so th...
Saturday, February 07, 2015

Physician-assisted suicide to be legal in Canada

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Canada is joining the ranks of iconoclastic firebrand countries like Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Colombia (as well as the odd ...
Thursday, February 05, 2015

Measles in 2015? Go figure

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Who knew that measles would become a hot-button issue (or any kind of an issue, frankly) in 2015? Measles has been eradicated in North Ame...
Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Understanding jihadi groups

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I finally found, courtesy of the good old Beeb , a reasonably convincing attempt at explaining the rationale behind the Islamic State (IS, ...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Toronto is the best city in the world (apparently)

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Another Economist report just released is The Economist Intelligence Unit's Safe Cities Index 2015 , which looks at 50 major cities acro...