The Great War For Civilization
The meeting takes place in a room. The malignant stench of misunderstanding was palpable. There is no reasoning with “these” people. After all, they are not even really “people” to begin with. These “fuckers” are so low on the evolutionary scale that even the Animal Rights people have nothing but contempt for their pathetic, wretched...
A Quick Remark About Generalizations
The other day I found myself arguing with a comrade about the conduct of the police during the G20. The argument was prompted by the 10-month prison sentence handed out to Leah Henderson, an organizer and activist scapegoated as the mastermind behind the violence and mayhem of that fateful weekend. How one, overweight-Canadian woman was...
The Sokal Hoax, Post-Modernism and the Left
Every now and then one will unfortunately have the experience of participating in a rather, pleasant and stimulating conversation which is completely derailed by a statement of sheer lunacy. “Oh, so you actually believe in DNA?” “No, don’t you get it….gravity is a social construction.” “The essential nature of Marxism is theological in its paradigmatic...
Christopher Hitchens is Dead. Wormfood. Gone.
I write these words in the manor, the Hitch would have wanted; devoid of the cheap sentimentality and false platitudes offered up by the parties of God during Eulogies. He is not in Heaven, nor Hell. He will not be reincarnated or “move on” to some new, celestial plane of existence. The only claim he...
This Time It’s Different
Among economists, academics and political scientists there seems to be a debate emerging about the current economic turmoil. The central issue being: does debt matter? The Keynesians don’t seem to think it does. Other people disagree. I think it matters for the following reason: it has mattered for the last 8 centuries, every single time...
Pay No Mind to the Man Behind The Curtain
The price of raw cotton is at a 140 year high and one of the unexamined consequences of this phenomenon is that it is becoming more expensive to print US dollars. In 2008 the price of manufacturing a dollar 6.4 cents. A short two years later it jumped to 9.6 cents. I wonder if it’s...
The Left Needs to Grow a Pair – Part II
During the recent Toronto budget debacle, I was down at City Hall for the protest on September 26th. One of those semi-organized leftist temper tantrums. A referendum on Rob Ford’s agenda, so to speak, which in all fairness actually got the Ford brothers to back away from some of their more draconian cuts. If he’s...
PP Votes: The Left Needs to Grow a Pair
Are you in favour of the minimum wage being raised to 19 dollars per hour and doubling the corporate income tax rates? How about immediately doubling social assistance and disability rates while eliminating claw backs and restoring the special diet allowance? How would you feel about a political party in favour of ending racial profiling,...
The Committee to Save the World
The Financial Crisis of 2008 was probably my generation’s first but it certainly won’t be the last. Ever since the broad trend of financial deregulation that began with the dismantling of the Bretton Woods Agreement, which took the United States off the Gold Standard, bankers tend to blow themselves up every 7-8 or so years....
The Secret “universe”
Most people don’t realize that “snake oil” actually refers to the fats in a specific type of snake native to China called the “Enhydris chinensi”. It was and still is used as to treat inflammation of the joints caused by arthritis. Strangely in our society, the term has evolved to mean something very different. It...
Cause and Effect
It is always a flattering proposition when one is solicited for advice. The mere act evokes all of the wonderful appeals to wisdom and affluence upon which the ego nourishes itself. Unfortunately when one’s area of expertise stems from having a close and personal relationship with OxyContin and cocaine, it makes these moments bittersweet at...
Populism Should Be Popular