We tend to spend a lot of time looking at the various pronouncements of party grandees, looking for places to pick at, don’t we? Not today: today I want to share with you my views on dishonest dealings between parties and citizens. Let’s start with email. Every email that is sent from a mailing list, [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Political Party Honesty? Please?
Posted in Federal Politics, Political Morality, tagged harassment, mailings, phone calls on 15/08/2009 | 3 Comments »
Why Being Positive Matters
Posted in Communities, Philosophy, tagged avoiding negativism, being positive on 11/08/2009 | 1 Comment »
It is incredibly easy to be negative. Not only does every broadcast, and every daily newspaper, overtly sell negativism — regardless of the issue or the line-up of the sides, it is easier to dump on “the other guys” than it is to figure out what can be done, and how, especially if ratings or [...]
Misplaced Anger Over the HST
Posted in Society, Taxation, tagged entrepreneurs, HST, media, spending, whingeing on 10/08/2009 | 2 Comments »
The Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) has attracted no shortage of detractors (and call-in show anger) in both Ontario and British Columbia. Both provinces intend to convert from today’s Federal GST + Provincial PST system to a single HST on 1 July 2010. The combined rate (GST + PST) and the HST rate are the same: [...]
The Moral Role of Government
Posted in Philosophy, Political Morality, tagged government, limits, moral purpose, Thomas Hobbes on 04/08/2009 | 2 Comments »
Thomas Hobbes, an English Philosopher active during the Cromwellian Revolution, is remembered today as the founder of the social contact school of political philosophy, encapsulated in his famous aphorism: [L]ife in the state of nature is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short” In a world of anarchy (despite the protestations of Randites and rational anarchists) [...]
Small Town vs Big City
Posted in Features, tagged cities, freedom, tight-knit community, where to live on 03/08/2009 | 3 Comments »
BBC Radio 4′s Thought for the Day for 03.08.2009 sparked considerations on the virtues of village life as opposed to the freedom of the city.
Good-bye, Karlheinz
Posted in Federal Politics, Justice, tagged ethics of Opposition, extradition, judicial process, Schreiber on 03/08/2009 | 1 Comment »
The long-awaited day of extradition for Karlheinz Schreiber came last night, as he was sent back to Germany after years of delaying tactics. It’s tempting at this point to say “and good riddance”, but schadenfreude is unbecoming. What the whole sorry saga of Karlheinz Schreiber points out, actually, is that our political and justice systems [...]
Welcome to Changes Galore
Posted in Administrative, tagged Mission, Vision on 03/08/2009 | 1 Comment »
The opening post to Changes Galore sets forth the mission I have set myself for this blog.
