Clik here to view.
Lessons learned
Group projects are one of the first workplace-like things that kids are exposed to in school. The eager ones jump right in, enjoying the challenge of working with others. The sensible ones only do as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Vikings fail to impress in loss to Raiders
After Sunday’s mistake-filled outing against the Oakland Raiders, Minnesota sits at the bottom of the NFC North division with a sad 2-8 record. On top of the loss, Adrian Peterson was injured in the...
View ArticleMichael Geist on the CRTC’s usage-based billing decision
It’s not quite what it seems like: My weekly technology law column [. . .] notes the resulting decision seemed to cause considerable confusion as some headlines trumpeted a “Canadian compromise,” while...
View ArticleOh, good: the age of hagiographic Beatles stories may be coming to a close
Or, if not a close, at least a pause: Given the vastness and variety of the literature, it would be incorrect to say that the Beatles story has been whitewashed, not when it includes so many get-even...
View ArticleNFL week 11 results
Not a bad week straight-up, but a bad one against the spread (now languishing with the also-rans at 20th in the AoSHQ pool): ∅ New York (NYJ) 13 @Denver 17 ∅ @Cleveland 14 Jacksonville 10 √ @Detroit 49...
View ArticleHerman Cain and the most awkward anecdote so far
I suspect Herman Cain has managed to talk himself out of the GOP nomination race with little anecdotes like this one: Cain speaks for nearly a half an hour and despite a couple fleeting “999” mentions,...
View ArticleAcronym watch: “In the euro zone farmyard, it’s time to forget about the PIGS...
The journalists will appreciate this new acronym: The euro zone needs a new acronym. For the past three years, PIGS has served as a catchall for the cash-strapped states on the single currency’s...
View ArticleAnother case where “spending cuts” still mean increased spending
No, not the US government, even though the media will be talking up the “savage” spending cuts coming because of sequestration (which will only reduce the rate of increase, not actually reduce...
View ArticleThe biggest threat to the environmental movement
No, it’s not some ferociously polluting corporation, or a dangerously powerful conservative politician or a candidate for the GOP nomination in the United States. It’s algae: “We can engineer, humbly,...
View ArticleQotD: Our Charter of “rights” and “freedoms”
On the evening of January 12, 1981, justice minister Jean Chrétien sat in front of the special parliamentary committee on the Constitution. “I am proposing that Section 1 read as follows: The Canadian...
View ArticleTim Harford on credit rating agencies
I think it’s safe to say that he’s not over-impressed with the organizations involved in doing credit risk assessments: What are rating agencies again? They are private companies that express opinions...
View ArticleQotD: How the sequester is a symptom of political cowardice
Those who can do. Those who can’t form a supercommittee. Those who can’t produce a majority vote in a supercommittee sequester. Those who can’t even sequester are telling the world something profound...
View ArticleThe political delusion: “We must re-establish the primacy of politics over...
That’s Angela Merkel, expressing the thought that many politicians have, but rarely speak out loud. There’s a lot of wishful thinking wrapped up in that statement: “We must re-establish the primacy of...
View ArticleSing a song, go to jail
This is rather disturbing: Imagine the scene. A dawn raid. A vanload of police officers batter down a front door. A 17-year-old boy is dragged from his home and driven away. He is charged with a crime...
View ArticleBC Supreme Court upholds law against polygamy
I’m somewhat surprised that the court upheld the existing law: I’d expected them to strike it down as overbroad. Polygamy remains a crime in Canada, B.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Bauman ruled...
View ArticleThe shot that started the First Interplanetary War?
Yes, it may not happen for a few more decades, but we were the instigators of what might be the most long-distance war in human history: The new habitability study has involved the collaborating...
View ArticleNFL week 12 early predictions
Our American friends are late in celebrating Thanksgiving, which is why your favourite US websites are full of turkey jokes and pumpkin pie photos. Because they know they have a captive audience who...
View ArticleNigel Farage on “German-dominated Europe”
Related posts: Britain’s “choice” on Europe A different (but not completely wrong) way to view Europe in 1914 French and German troops play catch-up
View ArticleUS to be crushed by Oriental economic juggernaut, film at 11
Do any of these statements sound familiar? “I don’t mean to be an alarmist, but I get the uneasy feeling that America is history” “The power behind the [. . .] juggernaut is much greater than most...
View ArticleClimategate 2.0 for dummies
For anyone who managed to avoid hearing about the original release of emails from many of the leading lights in the anthropogenic global warming community, revealing a much more sordid and...
View Article