The American dream
I’m on a mission. I’m inside the body of Donald Trump, looking for a heartbeat. I’ve got a flashlight, a digital recorder, and my cameraman. For the purpose of this high-risk assignment, we’ve both been ‘nanonized’ (reduced to the size of nanoparticles). I don’t know how we got in, but we’re in. We’re moving down […]
Continue readingHow to vote for yourself: empowering politics
As elections loom in Canada and the US, we’re faced with two opposing dynamics—or two halves of the same cycle. In the States, there’s a highly principled person in power, yet he may be replaced by a man who shows contempt for others and seems only interested in empire-building at their expense. In Canada, we […]
Continue readingGodliness + gullibility: a marriage made in hell?
So now it’s okay to be gay, according to Pope Francis. Before, it was forbidden by God as intrinsically evil and a mortal sin. (Not that we need anyone’s permission to love.) If God exists, though, I doubt that he changes his mind just because we humans become more assertive about our rights. Nor would […]
Continue readingPerception is everything
In the same way that I cease to care about my nipples showing when the weather is really hot, if you were stranded on a desert island with your religious/political opponents, would you really care about your beliefs (or theirs) if your survival depended on you all working as a team? Well, here’s a little […]
Continue readingDear Francis: we need to talk…
You’re getting fantastic press from all your new fans on social media. But we can’t be Facebook friends, unless you make some radical changes—because it’s religions that undermine economies …and almost everything else we value. For centuries, the Church has preached penance, subservience and self-rejection, causing more carnage, abuse, dysfunction and despair than anything else in our […]
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