Author Archives: Chris

By accident at first, and then by design, I was pretty much off the electronic grid this weekend. Minimal to no emails, phone calls, facebook, twitter, or general internet browsing. It started Friday night while playing board games with friends. In a momentary pause in the game, I dug out my phone and went tContinue reading “A Useful Quiet”

In city council chambers last night, one of our councillors decided to make her point about being offended by offending the majority of people listening. Councillor Sandy White said the “n-word”. Here’s the newspaper article with the context: http://www.lfpress.com/2013/03/05/london-politician-drops-n-word-bomb In addition to the understandable outrage that most people responded with, there were 2 interesting semi-defenses of her statement. 1.Continue reading “Legal but offensive”

When you woke up this morning, did you look at your closet, set aside a particular outfit while saying “and that is what I will wear on May 3rd, 2015”?  I hope not. Making a decision on future behaviour so far removed from the reality of the situation could make for a disastrous outcome.  You don’t knowContinue reading “The Perils of Policy Pronouncements”