Brian Fawcett
Brian Fawcett (1944-2022) is a founding co-editor of dooneyscafe.com. He's the author of many books, including "Cambodia: A book for people who find television too slow" (1986), "Gender Wars" (1994), "Virtual Clearcut, or The Way Things Are in My Hometown" (2003), "Local Matters: A Defence of Dooney's Cafe and other Non-Globalized People, Places, and Ideas" (2003) and "Human Happiness" (2011).
Protecting Their Afternoon Naps
Brian Fawcett thinks the right not to retire is mostly about tired-out tenured professors wanting to maintain their privileges
Ah, Leave Her Alone
Brian Fawcett comments on the real reason for all the hysteria over the pending release of Karla Homolka
Wretched Media Excesses/Two Deaths and an Election
Brian Fawcett examines some recent media events, and has some unkind words for everyone concerned…
Concrete Blues
Brian Fawcett questions the logic of a sidewalk improvement program along Toronto’s College Street.
Global Village Despatch
Brian Fawcett finds the “real” Global Village at work in a small B.C. town
Fixing the NHL
Brian Fawcett has some ideas about how to make the NHL work, and they don’t have much to do with “fiscal rationality”
Parsing Ontario’s Electricity Supply Nightmare
Brian Fawcett looks at Ontario’s electrical supply crisis and can’t see much difference between what Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals want to do and what the last regime did.
The Gay Marriage Controversy: Some Slightly Confused Second Thoughts
Brian Fawcett looks at where the gay marriage controversy is going, and where it came from.
Twenty-Eight Murder Victims
Brian Fawcett tries to figure out whether multiculturalism is for or against racism.
Missing John Lennon
Brian Fawcett files a longer, more rant-filled version of a piece first published in The Tyee in early October