GeneralMemorial to a very, very oppressive somethingSay what you want about Stalin; he had an efficient decision process. There was that murderous regime, though.
GeneralThe Re-framing of Stephen HarperJust because you haven’t heard enough of Stephen Harper’s Ringo impression last weekend, the Ottawa Citizen today had dueling...
GeneralRecessionomics: The Myth of FrugalityJames Surowiecki finally serves up a corrective to the laughable notion that a lasting effect of the recession will be to turn...
GeneralYo mama was a knuckle dragger, and other primate insultsSo it turns out that chimps aren’t living fossils of our shared primitive past, that our shared ancestor was was no...
GeneralLogogateSure the logo looks like the logo of the Natural Governing Party . But I don’t for a second think the government leaned on the...
GeneralNo Love for CapitalismColleague Johnson calls Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story “arguably the best thing he’s ever done.” I...
GeneralHas Starbucks gone off the rails?Rumors about the new Starbucks instant coffee have been brewing (har har) for a while, and so it was when I walked into the usual...
GeneralThe long tail, curtailed?Chris Anderson’s Long Tail thesis, it appears, is bunk. The basic problem is that the "big head of novelty" is growing so fast...
GeneralRuining Quebec from TorontoThe Globe and Mail’s package today on Ignatieff, Coderre, and the "Toronto Team" is great. The bios of...