Thoughts on the world and the things in it.
I love video games. I can play a game for hours. There is one however that scares me, Sid Meier’s “Civilization IV”. It’s the crack cocaine of video games. Hell, they even acknowledge it’s addictive properties. When you try to log off it reads “Do you really want to quit?” …
We would like to believe that Canada is a country of great equality and openess, however our government and their agencies continue to promote homophobia. The Canadian Blood Service has for a long time, been particularly reticent in it’s discrimination. I am a universal donor, type O, and don’t use …
I don’t normally blog about blogs, and for some reason I am missing the blog roll widget, but if I had one Freakonomics would definitely be on there. At the moment there is a very interesting post by Stephen J. Dubner regarding an economic approach to human behavior by Gary …
I just watched the wartapes and I must say it is a great film. It is very interesting to see how these guys react to being there. If you are hoping to watch a war film with action and explosions, this isn’t it. It is the honesty with which Spc. …
David Brown, who heads the task for on Governance and Cultural Change in the RCMP recommended that the RCMP get overhauled. This is good news because they obviously have some serious issues. CBC has a video clip explaining some of the suggestions including an omsbudsman for front-line officers. While this …
As I have stated before I take my privacy extremely seriously. It isn’t so much that I try to hide anything, but rather I want control of how I use that information, it is mine after all. If you think that sounds strange think of the copyrights that studios have …
Naomi Wolf warns about the 10 steps that despots take to take over and create fascist governments. http://www.democracynow.org/2007/11/28/the_end_of_america_feminist_social And in case you didn’t think it was happening, or you think of it as a whacko leftist conspirancy…follow the links. Step 1: All would-be dictators invoke a terrifying internal and external …
When will the RCMP stop lying about their role. We have all seen the video and it is obvious that they did nothing to help him. Unless you call kneeling on his neck and head helping. The fire department claim they told the cops he was dead and asked for …
The Sudanese president has pardoned Ms. Gibbons and released her. She is now leaving the Sudan.
RCMP officer Dale Carr, of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team claims that Robert Dziekanski was still alive when the medical teams arrived, CBC reports. He claims that after officers tasered him repeatedly and knelt on his neck and head (remember we have the video), that they monitored Dziekanski. “As soon …