There’s the woke, there’s the yet to be woke, and then there’s the out-of-my-cold-dead-hands unwoke. I think I’m the latter. And, as could have been expected, our numbers are growing. The counter-revolution needed spokesmen – notice the unabashed performative sexism… Read More ›
Month: November 2020
IN DEFENCE OF THE HUMBLE PRONOUN
Those of us who speak English find it weird, though not offensive, that Latin-based languages – French and Spanish and Italian – assign gender to their nouns, and indicate that assignment with a gendered article. It’s possible that a very… Read More ›
ON THE THRUSTUPONEDNESS OF GREATNESS
I have a brother who’s retired now, but he spent his career teaching recreation technology, whatever that is, at a community college in the next province over. Sometime mid-career, there was a faculty strike. A couple days into the strike… Read More ›
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION
If you ask me what’s beauty, or ugliness, or maybe even the distinction between right from wrong, I likely wouldn’t be able to tell you, except to say I know it when I see it. That’s why, as I’ve already… Read More ›
ROADS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS
Save for recent immigrants, there are no African Americans. Percentages have nothing to do with it. You’re black in America just in case the rest of us think you are. You’re white in America just in case you can pass… Read More ›
MY BOOK REPORT
I take it we’ve all heard of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. That it was an anti-Semitic forgery and yada yada yada. But how many of us had actually read it? I certainly hadn’t. Until last night…. Read More ›
DECOLONIZING THE CLASSROOM
Earlier this morning, Thursday, November 19, 2020, the faculty here at the University of Lethbridge received a rather puzzling missive. We’re being told that the University would like us to cooperate in “the decolonization of the classroom.” Not having the… Read More ›
WHAT DO THE HOLOCAUST, GLOBAL WARMING, AND THE FILIOQUE HAVE IN COMMON?
Abstract: In this paper we offer a conjecture as to how it’s possible that people of identical epistemic integrity – by which we mean pretty close to none – can and do nonetheless arrive at polar opposite views about history,… Read More ›
A CARTESIAN MEDITATION
For twelve summers, until this one, I’ve spent the lion’s share of April to September in a village overlooking the Amalfi Coast. If the borders reopen by next April, I’ll be able to carry on as before. But if not… Read More ›
PLAYING OUR V-CARDS
With so many people playing their victim cards, it’s almost impossible to know whether everyone’s a victim, none are, or only some are. The current claimants include Blacks, Latinos, Arabs, Muslims in general, indigenous, Jews, women, LGBT+, trans-people … Those… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 