What Should Government Meddle In? I’ll go out on a limb here and say, “Almost everything.” Now, before half of you go postal, let me rephrase that. The important question is not what government should be regulating, but how much. So rather than the usual right-vs.-left, all-vs.-nothing battle that only leads to shouting, what we…
Month: February 2016
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The Heroic Battle Against Death
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The government of Canada is debating a “Right to Die” bill at the moment. A certain percentage of doctors are adamantly against the whole idea. We have to wonder why. There are all sorts of reasons: thin edge of the wedge, who protects the helpless, can children make that choice, etc. But I think there…
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Why Canadians Fear Bernie Sanders
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Canadians live in horror that Bernie Sanders might become President of the United States. I mean, it’s an outside chance, but the effect on the Canadian self-image could be catastrophic. Why an Outside Chance? It’s a done deal that voters, especially the young, media-savvy ones, are tired of the same old big-business-run politicians. Catching that…
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Worse Than Darwin Thought
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Creativity in Art comes from making new combinations of known concepts. Science Fiction has a great benefit in this respect, because we are bombarded with a steady stream of real scientific anomalies that we can sort through for our ideas. And come up with some realistic predictions. Back in 1970 or so I read a SciFi…
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Violence Part 4: Too Many Cowboys
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A recent Facebook post put up a series of pro-violence quotes to see if readers could tell which came from the Koran and which came from the Bible. And of course it’s impossible to tell. This similarity serves to remind us that both those books were written a lot of centuries ago by primitive desert tribesmen…