There used to be almost no conversation I enjoyed more than ‘is there or is there not a god?’. I didn’t think there was and the conversation took place usually with other sceptics, but it was fun to go through the proofs and speculate. Today I find this an absolute... More
Over the past decade I have only rejected one preaching street tyrant handing out “gospel tracts” (God pamphlets). After I passed, I immediately regretted it. My life’s religious reading consists entirely of these tiny packages of enlightenment and I have discovered that the path to Heaven is narrow-minded. So, that... More
Elation was surging through my bones. I had that thrill that always comes with the start of a new journey, a new love, a new adventure. I was leaving Toronto for my first job, teaching ESL in Jakarta. On the way, I was busing to see my cousin in Cincinatti,... More
While every Reporters Without Borders article may start with the hippie-esque, oft-irritating “Reporters Without Borders condemns…” and quotes on the site are consistently from themselves, they’ve been honest about Russia (and everything) for as long as they’ve existed. Most know that free speech in Russia doesn’t mean the same thing... More
Sun Media superstar Ezra Levant is wildly talented at making things up. With the headline “When news somehow isn’t news: Media Party conveniently looks the other way anytime lefties go bad”, he invokes his ironic spiritual leader by following the maxim: “They keep up their lies, even at the risk... More
“Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in” - Leonard Cohen, Anthem During revolutionary times one usually finds lurking the utopian tendency: the urge to perfect the world and the expectation that the Kingdom... More
We live in a world where everyone thinks that they’re funnier than they really are. Myself included. Now, unless you’re Louis C.K., this can be a hard thing to gauge. I’ve come to believe that most laughter in life, no matter how boisterous, is faked. Not that this is necessarily... More
Science and religion are wholly and utterly incompatible. Today the religious ingratiate themselves with science at every opportunity as, quite rightly, they know they’ll look like quacks if they are seen denying basic science the way they used to. Deprived of their historical freedom to be pontificating tyrants disseminating ignorance,... More
There truly is a God, a majority of Post readers declare. Does Conrad Black know? If there’s one thing worse than speculative prattle from the paid staff of a newspaper, it’s speculative prattle that the readers of said newspaper concocted themselves that a member of the staff of the newspaper... More
After narrowly avoiding not 1, but 2 of Harold Camping’s Rapture predictions in 2011, one might stop and wonder “When is it coming?”. The answer to this inexplicably important question has been in much debate over the past few weeks. Due to upcoming end of the Mayan b’ak’tun, the last... More
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... More
You’re sitting on a train at the station. Another train slowly passes by on the next track over. You feel yourself leaving the station, only to realize – once the other train has passed – that you haven’t moved an inch. While illusions of motion and directionality are most often... More
There used to be almost no conversation I enjoyed more than ‘is there or is there not a god?’. I didn’t think there was and the conversation took place usually with other sceptics, but it was fun to go through the proofs and speculate. Today I find this an absolute... More
Elation was surging through my bones. I had that thrill that always comes with the start of a new journey, a new love, a new adventure. I was leaving Toronto for my first job, teaching ESL in Jakarta. On the way, I was busing to see my cousin in Cincinatti,... More
While every Reporters Without Borders article may start with the hippie-esque, oft-irritating “Reporters Without Borders condemns…” and quotes on the site are consistently from themselves, they’ve been honest about Russia (and everything) for as long as they’ve existed. Most know that free speech in Russia doesn’t mean the same thing... More
Sun Media superstar Ezra Levant is wildly talented at making things up. With the headline “When news somehow isn’t news: Media Party conveniently looks the other way anytime lefties go bad”, he invokes his ironic spiritual leader by following the maxim: “They keep up their lies, even at the risk... More
“Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in” - Leonard Cohen, Anthem During revolutionary times one usually finds lurking the utopian tendency: the urge to perfect the world and the expectation that the Kingdom... More
We live in a world where everyone thinks that they’re funnier than they really are. Myself included. Now, unless you’re Louis C.K., this can be a hard thing to gauge. I’ve come to believe that most laughter in life, no matter how boisterous, is faked. Not that this is necessarily... More
Science and religion are wholly and utterly incompatible. Today the religious ingratiate themselves with science at every opportunity as, quite rightly, they know they’ll look like quacks if they are seen denying basic science the way they used to. Deprived of their historical freedom to be pontificating tyrants disseminating ignorance,... More
There truly is a God, a majority of Post readers declare. Does Conrad Black know? If there’s one thing worse than speculative prattle from the paid staff of a newspaper, it’s speculative prattle that the readers of said newspaper concocted themselves that a member of the staff of the newspaper... More
After narrowly avoiding not 1, but 2 of Harold Camping’s Rapture predictions in 2011, one might stop and wonder “When is it coming?”. The answer to this inexplicably important question has been in much debate over the past few weeks. Due to upcoming end of the Mayan b’ak’tun, the last... More
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... More
You’re sitting on a train at the station. Another train slowly passes by on the next track over. You feel yourself leaving the station, only to realize – once the other train has passed – that you haven’t moved an inch. While illusions of motion and directionality are most often... More
