Articles

Dead Police Officers and Other Occasions for Executive Self Aggrandizement:

By Brian Fawcett | October 19, 2005

Brian Fawcett uploads a long-stewing meditation on the James Roszko killings in Northern Alberta, and what has been buried beneath the hoopla surrounding them.

No Landslide in Germany

By Stan Persky | September 24, 2005

German conservatives were expected to win last’s week election in a landslide. Didn’t happen? Why not? All is explained… a little Nachtmusik, maestro.

Teaching the Controversy

By Stan Persky | August 27, 2005

Evolution or intelligent design? How to solve America’s cultural wars while watching the old ball-game.

Hey! Maybe This Thing Really Works!

By Max Fawcett | July 28, 2005

Rachel Marsden no longer works at the National Post. Max Fawcett stops by, if only briefly, to gloat.

We’re Winning, Eh?

By Wally Hourback | July 11, 2005

Our North Bay correspondant checks in with a brief survey of how the far distant world looks to him.

Gods, Ghosts, Aliens, Angels and Elvis

By Stan Persky | July 8, 2005

Don’t know the first thing about philosophy? But you’re interested in questions about the nature of reality and knowledge. Where to go? Here’s the first chapter of an introduction to philosophy that gets you started on figuring out What It All Means. Well, at least, some of what it means.

Gods, Ghosts, Aliens, Angels and Elvis (part 2)

By Stan Persky | July 8, 2005

Here’s the rest of what you always wanted to know about philosophy, but were too shy to ask.

Kink of the Pops

By Brian Fawcett | July 1, 2005

Brian Fawcett tosses in his 2 cents on the subject of Michael Jackson

New York Poems

By Stan Persky | June 29, 2005

Here’s the deal: Intrepid Traveler goes on 5, 6 day jaunt to “see New York.” What he sees are dead boxers, Grecian urns, boddhisatvas, unicorns, crucifixions, absent towers, armies of ghosts. New York as messages and mortality. Hmm, not your average package tour.

In Neverland

By Stan Persky | June 23, 2005

“All children, except one, grow up,” is the way J.M. Barrie began The Adventures of Peter Pan a century ago. One child, who thinks he is the exception, was last week tried as an adult and acquitted of child molestation.