The fallout from the Canadian Supreme court decision ruling a patient’s right to seek care supercedes the right of the government to enforce a health-care monopoly continues to reverberate throughout the country. Canada is the only developed nation which dissallows private citizens from seeking private medical insurance. NWM cub reporter jc noted that […]
The thing I still don’t get how Stronach believes her cosying up with Martin is going to quel separatist fires in Quebec, unless of course she doesn’t. Best quote of the day was found by Terrence Corcoran for his Financial Post commentary:
“This is a move by big money. Magna Corp., controlled by Stronach’s father, […]
While the blogosphere has been wringing its collective hands over the potential threat to free speech if McCain-Feingold were to be applied to the letter, classifying blogs as subject to campaign finance regulation, things were already worse in BC. Here’s an excerpt from Darren Barefoot at Urban Vancouver.
I called up Elections BC this morning, […]
I have to say that Cadence Weapon’s new song Oliver Square is one of the best songs ever. Maybe you have to be from Edmonton to fully understand its brilliance. Though the Pitchfork review is quite positive.
Elsewhere, Cadence’s hometown shoutouts get Simon Reynolds off his back. While most of us can’t appreciate the […]
I think I’m going to be sick.
And then there’s this shocking (ie completely unshocking) allegation: The same network controlled the appointment of judges. During the 2000 elections, the party had a stable of about 20 big-time Montreal lawyers working for them for free. Or perhaps, not quite for free: Several of them were subsequently rewarded […]
NWM, a few weeks ago, posted a short piece reviewing a TNR article by G. Pascal Zachary which made the liberal case for Wolfowitz as the head of the World Bank. TNR, showing why they are one of the best periodicals out there, has now printed an article by Sebastian Mallaby that contradicts many […]
TNR has published a compelling article that makes the case for liberal support for Wolfowitz to head up the World Bank.
The Author, G. Pascal Zachary, opints out something that I’ve been noting for years. That the American Liberal and Conservative activism on the World Bank is in agreement more than not. I recall […]
TNR, noting that many organs of liberal opinion are offering only grudging support for the prospect of democratisation in the middle east makes the case for broader support and involvement for the initiative.
The administration’s record of foreign policy cynicism and ineptitude is not easily forgotten (or forgiven). But it is precisely because of this track […]
John Ivison of the National Post tactlessly takes advantage of the killing of 4 Mounties to promote harsher laws for marijuana cultivation in his March 5th column. Here’s my pithy, way-too-late-to-get-published letter to the editor:
John Ivison makes a good point when he says that, “Canadians are not willing to tolerate the rule […]
I thought that Bush’s inaguaral speech was pretty damn good, despite glaring policy contradictions. Peter Beinart has posted a great article on how Liberals can develop a rhetoric of freedom that trumps Bush, not only in policy-coherence, but also in effectiveness.
But that’s exactly the point. Bush’s second inaugural doesn’t challenge liberals at the level […]
I’ve heard a bit about the work on people’s thoughts influencing random number generators in the 1970s, but it sounds like they’ve moved on to something bigger.
But the project threw up its greatest enigma on September 11, 2001.
As the world stood still and watched the horror of the terrorist attacks unfold across New York, something […]
Oddiophile is a site that combines tag searches from the two coolest thing on the net right now, del.icio.us and flickr.
Think of it as your gateway to procrastination, or a quick tangible zeitgeist on any topic.
What happens when the most innovative sports supplement company ever discovers that thier innovative fat-burner has a dramatic positive effect on Fibromyalgia patients?
Myalgistat.com
I’d usually write something like this off, but I have a huge amount of respect for this company.
Here’s something to load onto the palm pilot: the condensed works of great philosphers, and also Marx. (hat tip: American Digest)
A few months ago a friend of mine got together a bunch of us and we read aloud Plato’s symposium. To add reality to posing as a bunch of libidinous Greeks having a dinner […]
These sort of remind me of the lab books we got in University chemistry, but without the carbon.
Deceptively simple, the Cornell System supplies an armature that both organizes notes and encourages review and summarization. I use it for reading, research, and for planning and organizing projects from the simple to the complex.
(hat tip: 43F)
Quick morning article on Starbucks expansion in Europe. There will be growing pains for sure, but it seems the Starbucks in France are already doing not bad.
Parisian Julien Grollemund is living proof that American coffee-to-go chain Starbucks (SBUX ) has a shot at taking hold, even in famously leisure-loving France. Once a week, the […]
Wired has a great article on the new trend in traffic management. The idea is to remove signs, lines and lanes, and let traffic manage itsellf, leading to less accidents, more flow, and more livable cities. Seriously, check the article for yourself (hat tip: Johny Canal)
Monderman and I stand in silence by the […]
Joshua Newman partly blames his procrastination on his amorphous job for which almost any activity can be rationalized as vaguely productive. That struck a chord with me, as does his simple life hack for doing the tasks that are more productive instead of the ones that are less, but maybe more fun or insteresting.
Very […]
In implementing my GTD system I have found Merlin Mann’s hipster PDA to be immensely valuable. Aside from jotting down notes to drop into my in basket for processing I’m also stoked on the idea of having custom printed index cards function as business cards, preferably with pertinent notes jotted down below my name.
As […]
K5 has a neat article on procrastination with a lot of decent tips on behavior modification. The author also lists GTD as further reading and quotes Csikszentmihalyi, so he’s totally on my team.
He also links to a cool new homepage he has designed for us who are in the sad position of doing work […]