IT ISN’T REAL UNTIL IT’S ON TV

I’ve noted before how America has moved from a word based and therefore cognitive society to one that is overwhelmingly visual and therefore emotional. One of the strange side effects of this development is that, even with unprecedented access to information,...

AS CANADA DRIFTS TOWARDS MARXISM

I’ve been warning for awhile now about western society’s drift towards totalitarianism and the dangers of government controlled education. This is why. Also, see the another discussion of this topic here.

WHAT, THE RIGHT SIDE WON?

Update from the Westminster School district case: the right side won. In a completely unexpected development, a judge grudgingly ruled that three school board members were right in not allowing discrimination complaints based on what kids decide is their sex....

COULD BLOGGING SAVE CIVILIZATION?

After having it on my to read list for years, I am finally getting around to Neal Postman’s Amusing Orselves to Death – Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. Sor far its great. One of Postman’s main points is that certain mediums of...

THE ANTI-DISCRIMINATION CARD

In another update, US News and World Report’s John Leo reports on how free speech is being trumped by anti-discrimination laws in Canada. I’m afraid in the end it won’t be just in Canada and it won’t be just free speech that gets trumped. For...

“MORAL BELIEFS” NOT ALLOWED

In the latest on the Westminster School Board controversy (see previous post), the government is threatening to simply take over the district from the elected school board. Sate Senator Joe Dunn said, in advocating the takeover, “I am not interested in [the...
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