Protests and Devastation

Is anybody else horrified by the going-ons in Toronto today? This is not a city plagued by protests, especially violent ones. There are so many things that can be discussed about what happened yesterday afternoon and right up to this writing. I'm going to focus on three. The first is that the rioters should not

Pat Robertson

The twitter hashtag is #patrobertsondoesntspeakforme. There are two things that need to be addressed. 1. Those outside of Christianity who want to dismiss us all because of Pat Robertson are a close second to him in terms of ignorance.  If you ignore the work being done in Haiti, primarily by Christian organizations*, in favor of

Swine Flu and Accidents

I've mentioned this a few times on Twitter, and I think I'm going to expand a bit here.  Fear-mongering is nothing new on the part of the media.  We need to be careful though when the New York Times throws a figure like 10,000 Swine Flu deaths since April.  10, 000 seems like a big

Darn You Rogers and your lying ways.

About four and a half weeks ago I ordered an iPhone from Rogers.  The guy I ordered from assured me that it would be two weeks before I had it, at the most four.  I called them a week and a half ago and was told that the customer service guy who assured me it

How could this happen?

I'm looking for more information on this, but apparently a couple of Jewish students were attacked threatened and intimidated at a lecture at U of T.  The reason?  They asked the typical question that anyone listening to discussions about Israel and Palestine should ask regarding the anti-semetic, anti-israeli nature of the Hamas charter. In typical

Businessmen from another planet.

How does it not occur to some of these people that spending ten million dollars on a sporting event might tick off the taxpayers who just supported a billion dollar bailout of your bank. Despite a near collapse that required $45 billion in federal taxpayer bailout funds, Bank of America sponsored a five day carnival-like