I finally got around to seeing An Inconvenient Truth. In terms of its educational value for letting us know exactly where thing are at with Climate Change, this movie is brilliant. Al Gore attacks us with the PowerPoint from hell: charts, graphs and images depicting the sad state that we have gotten our planet into.
Gore spends […]
Archive for January, 2007
After a frenetic posting pace during the holidays, things have slowed down here. Jaclyn and I are back in St. Stephen and another term is starting at SSU. Here’s what is going on, in point form!
We’ve moved apartments within Todd Hall. The new one is bigger, renovated and brighter (more natural light). Pictures to come once […]
John Smulo writes a blog that encourages a lot of dialogue and he recently made a post called George Bush Sucks. He was trying to explore the unthinking assent of American Evangelical Christianity to George Bush and the Republican Party. This is strange for a Canadian to think about, because while it would be difficult […]
Being home over the Christmas holidays has been tremendously refreshing. I’ve re-connected with family, friends and community who have been glaringly absent from my disconnected life. It’s so easy to start to think that you’re on your own in this life when you’re 3000 kms from home.
One moment really stood out to me. I had the […]
The Line Between Clarity and Chaos: An Interview with Barry Schwartz
Maybe this will make a Calvinist out of me… choice may be bad for us. Too much choice, that is. Barry Schwartz is the author of The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less. Here’s a snippet from the interview to give you an idea of […]
