If you find a stranger in your house, there are two questions you might ask. One is “How did you get here?” And the other is “What are you doing here?” However the intruder answers the first question – suppose… Read More ›
Trump
AWFULISING
“A Harris victory on November 5th will spell the end of America as we know it.” Well yes, the America we’ve known has never had a female president. “A Trump victory on November 5th will spell the end of America… Read More ›
THE STUMP SPEECH/INTERVIEW DISTINCTION
As my millions of followers have noticed, no doubt with considerable disappointment, I’ve been holding back lately, both on a) those events taking place in the Middle East and on b) the election campaign taking place south of the 49th…. Read More ›
THE STATE OF THE RACE
According to MSNBC, if Trump wins America will be a fascist dictatorship. According to Fox, if Harris wins it’ll be a communist dystopia. I suppose that without this hyperbolic awfulising American politics would be about as boring as, well, Canadian… Read More ›
THE DEPTH OF MY SHALLOWNESS
Let’s face it. Canadian politics are excruciatingly boring. No Canadian party is going to eliminate medicare or criminalise abortion. And really, what else matters? So it’s no surprise that what counts as civil discourse on the other side of the… Read More ›
KIMBERLY CHEATLE
So apparently this is how it works: 1) At a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, the United States Secret Service failed to protect presidential candidate Donald Trump. 2) More could have been done towards avoiding this failure…. Read More ›
WHY IT’S A GOOD THING I CAN’T VOTE
The propaganda war isn’t over what we’re being exposed to. It’s over what we’re exposing ourselves to. So there’s a strong element of complicity in what we believe, be it about global warming, vaccination safety, Gaza, of what have you…. Read More ›
UNWOKE U
Jonathan Haidt has argued that a university can seek truth, or it can pursue justice, but not both. He’s right about the dichotomy, but I’m not sure he’s best identified the two choices. Getting the truth is far above anyone’s… Read More ›
MAR-A-LAGO, DOBBS, AND THE UNFORESEEABLE BUT SURE-TO-BE-COMEDIC FUTURE
The raid on Mar-a-Lago has done little to dampen the conviction that there’s a deep-state conspiracy against the Donald, and one designed to ensure that the Democrats remain in power. And the Dobbs decision has motivated many women to try… Read More ›
IN THE WAKE OF THE ‘INCURSION’
Since the – let’s just call it an ‘incursion’ – into the U.S. Capitol on January 6, CNN and MSNBC have been awfulising it as “the end of the American experiment in democracy”, while Fox has been downplaying it as… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 