It’s been a consistent theme this year, that whole discourse thing. I’ve spent a lot of time wanking on about the importance of raising the conversation, of critical thought, of engagement. I’ve tried, with limited success, to be clear about the u…
Tag: cultivationofstupidity
I don’t mean to sound jaded about it, but really, what is there to learn here? What new insights can be gained from any of this? These things happen with such depressing regularity that they’re almost part of the background noise. We can go on abo…
A metaphor for the big picture and everything that’s wrong with City Council? @ttcchair You actually *read* the report? Nerd alert.??? Matt Elliott (@GraphicMatt) October 9, 2012 @graphicmatt Duh.??? Karen Stintz TTCteam (@TTCchair) October 9, 2012 Na…
Glenn Tamblyn at Skeptical Science flags the University of East Anglia’s release of threats and hate mail sent to Phil Jones. PDF here, examples below: 1. ???Subject: Kill yourself scum Fuck you for your lies and deceit. You deserve to die. And if y…
Selley: Nothing will force the mayor into a retreat on the Sheppard subway. He will insist on its viability and impending ground breaking until the day he leaves office, and thereafter he will claim that it exists even though it does not. He will …
Partnerships with Myanmar and Sudan??? links to Burmese heroin traffickers??? With this cast of characters partnering in the development of the Northern Gateway, you???d think Ethical Oil would be at the front of the line condemning the pipeline. That i…
Every now and then you want to pause and re-evaluate. Is this working? What am I trying to do here? Is this the best way to go about it? Is it producing the results I want? Now seems as good a time as any. Last night on FB, I offered this: Aspirat…