“I’m still running away” by Flickr user Vincepal, used under a Creative CommonsAttribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 license. I have noticed a shift in my Facebook news feed: there are now fewer ridiculous rants against Obama and pro-gun-rights posts, fewer Creationists going on with spurious proofs of their improvable ideas, and thankfully fewer racists with equally implausible, unsupportable ideas. […]
Guest post by Lorraine Devon Wilke The following blog post caught my eye, and I thought I had to do what I could to bring it to more readers. The author, Lorraine Devon Wilke, graciously agreed to let me re-blog it. Read the original on her blog, After the Sucker Punch. And if you agree, please […]
Annihilus, copyright Marvel Comics Parliament has reconvened in Ottawa, and the buzz is already about the next election—which could be more than a year away. I’m bracing myself for a year of public negativity to come. In Canada, all the parties are already in full campaign mode. And in the US, the presidential election process […]
The only kind of fox thinking people should pay attention to. Photo Red Fox #3 by Rylee Islit Photography. Used under Creative Commons licence. Last week, the satirical site The Daily Currant ran a story saying conservative ranter Ann Coulter recommended that the US government purposely infect refugee children who arrive at the border […]
The Canadian Shield. Trees down to the water’s edge. I’ve made it back from the wilderness! A typical “Canadian sunset” picture. Actually, I’ve been back for three days now, and it wasn’t that wild. While the Mattawa is significant as part of the original “river highway” of Canada, used by the fur traders as part […]
As this post goes live, I’m on the highway toward North Bay, Ontario, to begin a canoe trip down the Mattawa River. It’s going to include some white water, a few short portages and more white water, all in the great Canadian wilderness. Actually, it’s not all that wild. There are provincial campsites all along […]
Photo by: Scott Kleinberg, Creative Commons Writers are always teaching me, whether they know it or not. I’ve been editing and beta-reading manuscripts for a number of people this summer, and their words make me re-evaluate some ideas I held firmly for some time. And I keep coming to the same dilemma: at what point […]