The other day, in the Toronto Ontario suburb of Vaughn, a 73 year-old man, who’d been at odds with his condo board for over a year, decided he’d had enough and went on a shooting spree against his nemeses. The… Read More ›
gun control
IN DEFENCE OF THE MISUNDERSTOOD SOCIOPATH
Thought experiment: There’s a very clever man-eating lion on the prowl, so clever that we might just as well accept that it will never be caught. We can take some precautions to minimise the likelihood that our child will be… Read More ›
WHAT DIDN’T KEEP TORQUEMADA UP AT NIGHT
We live in a bivalent three-dimensional world. There’s left and right, there’s up and down, and there’s forward and back. I say ‘bivalent’ because even if you’re only slightly to the left, or you’re feeling just a little bit down,… Read More ›
MASS SHOOTINGS AND THE SECOND AMENDMENT
In the wake of the El Paso and Dayton shootings, Presidential candidate Kamala Harris has just taken her turn at the now-obligatory think-of-the-children bleat. It’s almost, but not quite, as obligatory as our-hearts-go-out-to. Politicians have simply got to hire some… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 