Personal Responsibility
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As someone who is slightly outside the usual demographic for video gamers, I periodically get asked what the appeal is. Of course, it’s usually phrased more like, “Don’t you have anything better to do with your life?” That depends on how you define better. The short answer is, “Nope.” Told you it was short. That’s…
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With no idea what to write tonight, I went and visited TED.com to surf for inspiration. I didn’t come away with the killer idea for my blog. That’s okay. I found lots of things to make me think, and they might lead to tomorrow’s post, or the one after that. No. Tonight I want to…
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Despite the fondest wishes of so many who opposed it, Greenpeace turned forty this year. I remember as a child back in the early ’70s listening to all the talk about this group of “hippies” that were interfering with nuclear testing. Because of the cold war, it seemed pretty obvious to a child like me…
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Okay, you’ve finally got me. I can’t take it any more. Our society is caught in a feedback loop and just like the feedback at a live concert, the whining is driving me nuts. Someone says, “One percent of the population controls most of the money while the other ninety-nine percent struggles.” and a media…
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So our provincial election is over. Dalton McGuinty and the Liberal Party returned for a third round but with a minority this time. That just gives them a handy excuse for anything they promised but don’t deliver on. All of that is irrelevant because so few people showed up to vote. We could have elected…
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If the end justifies the means, what if there is no end? Does anything ever truly end? If not, then where is the justification for “by any means necessary”? If the means are justified by a non-existent end, it seems safe to say they were in fact unjustified. If there were no ends to justify…
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For those who don’t know, don’t care, or aren’t from around here, we’re heading into a Provincial election here in Ontario. For those in the US, that’s the State level. For the rest of the world, it’s important to us, but likely most of the world won’t be greatly impacted by it. Locally though, it’s…
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