On the (Empire’s) Waterfront
Remember the famous taxicab scene from the great film On the Waterfront? Ex-boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) telling his older brother Charlie...
From Realpolitik to “Digitalpolitik”
In a very enlightening report by Foreign Policy magazine “the war torn the web”* describes how the war for the web will...
US Presidential Election 2020: How the outcome could affect the Canada and climate change
The candidates know about the need to proceed cautiously regardless of their broader positions on environmental change.
Baby you’re a (super) rich man!
Millionaires, Mega Millionaires and even a few Billionaires run our corporations, our media and of course our politics.
Going green: How your college can get involved
There’s a number of things your college can do to lower their carbon footprint and Go Green in 2021.
A vote against crisis
Votes on important issues could take place at any time, and since it would be done via the Internet, voters could vote at any convenient time.
What we are missing
It is summer, I’m a teacher, nearly unpaid, and have the gift of prep time for fall classes. I’m also being indulgent...
Never had a chance!
It was 1956, Brooklyn, NYC, the year after our beloved Dodgers had finally won a World Series from those Damn Yankees. We...
The communal interdependency of nationalized healthcare
“Why when I choose from the corpus of terms relating to universal healthcare I choose nationalized healthcare, because healthcare is rendered a national issue when we all rely on it.”
They burn witches don’t they?
Get rid of those broomsticks left leaning folks. They'll soon be coming after us!