I have just re-read an article from my accumulated stack written for The Globe and Mail in July, 2020, by one Peter Turchin who calls himself a “complexity scientist.” A professor at the U. of Connecticut as well as a member of The Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, Turchin engages in what he suggests are …
Monthly Archives: August 2022
L.A., Portland, Chicago, etc..
I have just recently learned of the increasing occurrence of “street takeovers” in cities such as L.A.. Hordes of young drivers block off urban intersections whereupon they proceed to rampage out of control, in some cases plundering major retail outlets. On Sunday, Aug 14, the Willowbrook neighborhood of L.A. was the site of such a …
There is No Unanimity on Global Warming!
I have already mentioned that 1600 put their names to Energy Advocate’s rejection of the 1997 Kyoto Accord which was ultimately rejected by the U.S. Senate. While some of the signators were exposed as frauds, the vast majority of them were perfectly qualified to comment on the climate issues involved. In 2007, in response to …
The Real Threat to our Democracies
In his first days in office Joe Biden used Executive Orders to ban all new oil and gas projects from various lands and offshore waters under federal jurisdiction. Thirteen states sued, challenging his right to do so. This past Thursday Terry Doughty, a United States district judge from Louisiana, ruled that the Executive Branch was …
Another Glimmer of Sanity?
Many in the gay community have apparently taken to deleting the T from the acronym LGBT to highlight their disapproval of much of the nonsense spewed by Transgenders. This is encouraging because it suggests the rejection of loyalties based on Identity in favor of a perspective rooted in truth and morality. A majority of North …
The Suicide of the West
Conservative M.P. Cheryl Gallant today reported to her online followers the contention of N.D.P. parliamentarian Bonita Zarrillo that indoor ice rinks, given the energy needed to create and maintain them, ought soon to be a thing of the past. I need hardly detail the multitude of repercussions, both in Canada and elsewhere, of her proposal. …
Green Fanaticism vs. Rational Humanism
On Aug. 5 The Epoch Times posted an article on the economic collapse and social anarchy of Sri Lanka, a thriving nation of approximately 20 million up until the election of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2019. While his government’s corruption was certainly a factor, its pursuit of an agenda that was both anti-capitalist and radically …
The Inquisition Lives!
I have before me dozens of examples of decent individuals who have been fired, publicly vilified or had their Facebook or Twitter accounts cancelled by Leftist simpletons so devoid of self-awareness that they have actually come to believe that it is Free Speech rather than their brazenly intolerant world-view that is the main threat to …
The Camels are on the Horizon!
Just watched a Tik Tok video posted by Mouna Limam of whom I know little. Opening with the enigmatic statement “The camels are on the horizon,” she is in fact referring to a speech given by Dubai’s Sheik Rashid who contended that great Civilizations founded by courageous “warriors” have tended to collapse approximately two and …
You are Ideologues, NOT Academics!
On April 29, 2020, an article appeared in the Hamilton Spectator by U. of Ottawa professor Stuart Chambers concerning Jordan Peterson’s “postmodern neurosis.” Chambers finds Peterson’s contention that Postmodernism threatens the very essence of Western Civilization an outright lie which he insists on preaching to a bunch of “gullible” simpletons [i.e.,”conservatives”]. As evidence, he cites …