With the election finally called, the “You’re fired!” signs have been coming out, as we all knew they would. And given Trump’s bravado, Biden would certainly be entitled to join in the crowing. But he’s not. And wisely not. After… Read More ›
Editorials
‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTION, AND …
This is the night before the U.S. election. Unless you figure you can’t lose – or unless you figure you can’t win – you have to have two speeches ready for election night, a victory speech and a concession speech…. Read More ›
RACE RELATIONS IN CANADA
Okay, let’s settle this business once and for all. When Europeans came to this continent, and as their settlements crept west, they discovered the land was already occupied. Seeing this – and had they been as ‘woke’ as some of… Read More ›
GOOD DAYS AND BAD
Let’s face it. Some days are better than others. Some days are better than most. And then there are those days, with apologies to Anselm, “the better of which cannot be conceived”. One such for me was last Thursday. It… Read More ›
SOME APT COMPARISONS
I tell my students that the only rhetorical overkill, no pun intended, worse than likening some perceived injustice to the Holocaust is likening some perceived villain to Adolf Hitler. But I never allow my advice to apply to me. Accordingly… Read More ›
RE LAST NIGHT’S PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
When people talk over each other, neither can be heard. But the fault that neither side was heard last night lies not with Donald Trump. That was his well-rehearsed strategy. Rather it lies with Chris Wallace. What he should have… Read More ›
JANUARY 20, 2021
If Donald Trump wins the election – whether by hook or by crook, it won’t matter, at least not from a Constitutional perspective – then there won’t be a Constitutional crisis to worry about on November 4th. But he’s taken… Read More ›
FOR THE SOUL OF THE NATION
Here are the red button non-issues in America today, that have spilt over into Canada: Covid is what it is, until some day it isn’t. And the economy is what it is until, like Covid, it’s not. So that leaves… Read More ›
ANIMUS
Because for seventy years Yugoslavia was one country, as government workers, university professors, and so on, Serbs and Croats lived side by side in its capital, Belgrade. So I’m told that, when the war broke out after the death of… Read More ›
REQUIEM
If people want radically different things from their government, it’s unlikely there’s going to be enough political stability to produce much of anything. So it’s a sign of a healthy society that the distance between Liberals and Conservatives in Canada… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 