Cheney’s Clout
Crooks and Liars has a hilarious bit from Jon Stewart about Cheney’s clout. Well worth watching.
View ArticleAnti-Science: The National Post on Climate Change
Raise the Hammer‘s latest issue is out, and I have an article in this one – finally! As support for action on climate change continues to grow, some influential people are carefully cultivating what...
View ArticleThink Globally, Act Locally
If you’re reading this at any time close to the time of writing – April 11, 2007 – there’s a good chance you’re one of the people who used to come here pretty regularly. And if you’re one of those...
View ArticleA Futile Search for Answers at Virginia Tech Begins
On September 13, 2006, a troubled young man named Kimveer Gill opened fire students in Montreal’s Dawson College, killing a young woman named Anastasia De Sousa. After police officers engaged him, he...
View ArticleLegacy of Agent Orange
From Slate: During the Vietnam War, millions of gallons of Agent Orange were sprayed across regions of the country to destroy forest cover used by guerillas. It contained the dangerous dioxin TCCD. On...
View Article“Those fanatical atheists”
Dan Gardner, who writes for the Ottawa Citizen, frames the atheism debate nicely in an article from last Saturday. Those making this case [for atheism lately] have been dubbed the “new atheists.” They...
View ArticleWrong Again
I took a moment to blast some National Post editors on Raise the Hammer today. Check it out: Wrong Again: The National Post on Climate Change, Part 2. Other semi-recent writings on RTH that I haven’t...
View ArticleFood Is Not Just Another Commodity
Wrote a blog post for RTH: Global food prices continue to rise. United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has warned that “We risk the spectre of wider-spread hunger, malnutrition and social unrest...
View ArticleWhat, you’ve never heard of Manny Schwartz?
If you’re fairly well-informed when it comes to science, you may often feel, and sometimes express, skepticism about someone else’s supposedly scientific claims. For example, if you were to see Suzanne...
View ArticleSimilarity Breeds Dislike
When the wildly popular online multiplayer game World of Warcraft came out a few years ago, I played it for about six months. Like just about every other multiplayer game out there, WoW players a...
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