人 人 生 而 自 由, 在 尊 严 和 权 利 上 一 律 平 等。 他 们 赋 有 理 性 和 良 心, 并 应 以 兄 弟 关 系 的 精 神 相 对 待。 Read more »

If you’ve been try­ing to get to this site in the last week, you may have found it down. This is because I’ve been sub­ject­ed to a direct attack on the site, some­body infil­trat­ing it with com­put­er gen­er­at­ed rub­bish to send up the band­width usage until it shuts down. The mate­r­i­al is insert­ed every minute or so, at all times. The attack, I’ve been able to deter­mine, orig­i­nates in Chi­na. This is cer­tain — I’ve been work­ing with sev­er­al peo­ple to deter­mine its ori­gin. Read more »

The biggest and most impor­tant events in his­to­ry have a strange invis­i­bil­i­ty when they are hap­pen­ing, except, of course, to a few unheed­ed Lao­coöns. Read more »

I always get sus­pi­cious when I hear a sin­gle phrase repeat­ed exces­sive­ly in the media. Late­ly, the sus­pect phrase is “nobody wants an election”.

Our creepy Con­ser­v­a­tive Prime Min­is­ter, Stephen Harp­er, has been inton­ing this phrase since the pos­si­bil­i­ty of over­turn­ing his gov­ern­ment appeared on the hori­zon. But the oppo­si­tion Lib­er­als also used it to avoid a con­fronta­tion they did not feel ready to win. In fact, the Lib­er­als wast­ed their big oppor­tu­ni­ty, with typ­i­cal cow­ardice, and Harp­er prob­a­bly thinks he can win if the cards are flopped now. But the asser­tions of politi­cians don’t con­cern me. They are not reliable.

What con­cerns me is the cho­rus of agree­ment that echoed through the media. It is now accept­ed as uni­ver­sal wis­dom that an elec­tion is a ter­ri­ble ordeal that the Cana­di­an pub­lic should resent endur­ing. This bizarre notion is almost invari­ably accom­pa­nied by the asser­tion that elec­tions are “expen­sive”. Read more »

I spend most of the day on my feet, walk­ing and car­ry­ing things. When I come home, I often put in fur­ther hours sit­ting upright at a com­put­er. So when I final­ly relax, I want to be hor­i­zon­tal. When I had a stan­dard couch in the apart­ment, I often found myself drift­ing to the floor, where I could “gap and stretch”, and feel some free­dom. Read more »