Apparently Jagmeet Singh, the leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party, doesn’t know the difference between a mass grave, as in the former Yugoslavia, and a cemetery here in Canada, like the one in Kamloops, B.C. In the former 215 people… Read More ›
Editorials
THE DEAN’S LETTER
On Monday, May 31, 2021, Matt Letts, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Lethbridge, sent the following missive to all members of the Faculty. Statement on Residential School News – *trigger warning* Dear… Read More ›
OF DISCOMFORT AND VULNERABILITY
I think if I were Jewish – which, come to think of it, I am – I’d be far more comforted being assured the Holocaust didn’t happen than being constantly reminded that it did. So I’m not sure how so… Read More ›
THE ANCHOR RACE
There’s a stiff competition between the three not-really-news news channels, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News, as to which can boast the most irritating prime-time anchor. CNN has put three runners in the qualifying heat: Anderson Cooper, the Incessant You-Knower, Chris… Read More ›
THE NEW SEGREGATIONISTS
Whether true or just media hype, it’s widely believed that attempts to integrate our diverse communities – white and black in America, white and indigenous in Canada – have not only failed, they’ve failed miserably. And so there’s a growing… Read More ›
THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE …
Nobody likes to be surveilled, but I don’t think Derek Chauvin thought he was doing anything wrong. Nobody likes to be told he’s doing something wrong. When challenged we all have a knee-jerk tendency to double down. So being told… Read More ›
THE FORGOTTEN MERITS OF TRIAL BY ORDEAL
I think we might have been too quick getting rid of some features of medieval jurisprudence. How so? Well, Derek Chauvin’s defence is claiming it wasn’t Chauvin’s knee on his neck that killed George Floyd, it was the drugs in his… Read More ›
TWO CALLS TO ARMS: GRIEVANCE ACTIVISM AND THE RESISTANCE OF THE PRIVILEGED
There’s a lot of variation within white. I happen to be swarthily white, but I’m white nonetheless. I know that all us whites are privileged, but I’m especially privileged. And yet, though I probably should, I don’t seem to suffer… Read More ›
THE WOKE AND THE UNWOKE
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 ›
THE NEXT 69 DAYS
As things now stand, Biden is going to exactly match Trump’s 306 Electoral College wins in 2016, which is 36 more than the 270 needed for the Presidency. This means that Trump’s legal challenges would have to reverse 38 of… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 