A self-deprecating take on the club’s purpose For a while now I’ve been a member of the Srsly WrongDebate Club on Facebook. It was Created by podcastersShawn Vuillez & Aaron Moritz as a place for fun, but also rational, debate. The debate page is an extension ofShawn and Aaron’s podcast which addresses a widerange
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – The Regressive Left and Islam
A good talk on some of the problems facing people who wish to debate sensitive topics in society. “No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity. And what I mean by that is that no idea in Islam, like any other religion and any other philosophy and political thought and creed, […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rebecca Solnit – Who Can’t Take Jokes?
You can watch Rebecca’s insight in action right here folks on this very blog. Watch how, when things don’t go their way. the fire-works begin – personal attacks, insults, hyperbole, all with a heavy dose of condescending mansplination. “But seriously, you know who can’t take a joke? White guys. Not if it implicates […]
Continue readingThe Tory Pirate - Politics & Policy: The Mutually Unintelligibility of Right & Left
Recently a friend of mine on Facebook was asking why conservatives seemed to misunderstand a key aspect ofliberalism. The question was, and is, an interesting one. And it led me back to a field of study I first encountered inuniversity and have run across from time to time since then. Specifically I am referring to the ideas of Jonathan Haidt.He proposed that a lot of the anger generated between liberals and conservatives is because both groups assume thatthere is only one scale for mo […]
Continue readingScripturient: The Republican Conspiracy
CNBC GOP Debate: The Sh*tshow Version Last night’s debate was a total sh*tshow. Posted by The Huffington Post on Thursday, October 29, 2015 I realized only after watching this edited video that the activity of the so-called Republican candidates’ debate was not simply the circus it seemed from the outset; it was actually a
Continue readingThe Tory Pirate - Politics & Policy: The Pirate Party’s Live Blog of the Debate
Not having received an invitation to participate in the Globe Economy Debate (assumably lost in the postal system) thePirate Party of Canada decided to live blog their own answers to the questions asked. The following is the transcripttaken from the party website. Question 1: JobsCanada is facing structural, rather than cyclical change. Do you
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Correlation and Causation – Things one should know.
Well, it never hurts to reinforce an important concept, especially one that many people miss or gloss over when the argumentative fur starts flying. Filed under: Education, Science Tagged: Debate, How things work., Science
Continue readingTrashy's World: Raising the bar
Trudeau’s closing remarks last night summed up what I have been saying for many years – the bar can be raised. Canadians don’t have to settle for a bar that is touching the ground. Harper has placed that bar so low on so many fronts: foreign affairs, the environment, fiscal
Continue readingTrashy's World: The only real downer over my holidays…
…was when my 8 year old son asked who else has been Prime Minister in his lifetime. And we had to say that Harper has been the only one. My wife and I want our son- and two other kids- to have a Prime Minister that cares more about this
Continue readingThe Tory Pirate - Politics & Policy: An Update on ‘100 Remedies for a Broken Democracy’
As a wrote before I really like the idea behind this website. New ideas continue to flow in every day. I thought I’d take a second to focus on what ideas for electoral reform have been proposed. Proposals are listed from oldest to newest (to be fair) with the original
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: The Responsibility of Free Speech
In January, 2015, Marie Snyder, on her blog, A Puff of Absurdity, raised the question of how free should speech be. I share her concerns about the apparent limitlessness of our rights: our right to free speech is not matched to any inherent responsibilities, civic or moral, to behave in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Dictionary Definitions Are A Starting Point
I would like to take this time to edify and hopefully illuminate those with access to my very small part of the blogging community. Blogging community, if you care to listen please note that for future reference that if you intend to talk about a topic that you are
Continue readingTrashy's World: DB8s… where decorum goes to die…
No, I’m not talking about the Ontario election leader’s debate that went down last night. The leaders – and more importantly, the audience – remained civil (if you count constantly interrupting each other “civil”) for the most part. Though we in the TV audience might have been a little less
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Rob Ford Crushes the First Toronto Mayoral Debate
Sorry, fellow progressives, but it’s true. The first debate was, somewhat mercifully, fairly policy focused with large sections devoted to debating various transit plans (such as LRT vs subways in Scarborough), finances, the Billy Bishop Airport expansion, and so on. In this context, and with a format that had a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: When Theism Takes a Drubbing
When actual science is involved, WLC loses. Dispensing the boots to the head is Sean Carroll. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Atheism, Debate, Sean Carroll, Theism, WLC
Continue readingThings Are Good: Obviously, The Climate Change Debate is Over
Anybody with the ability to reason realizes that anthropogenic climate change is happening – and it’s happening in an unpredictable but faster way than previously imagined. The fact that fools argue against this infuriates me as they are essentially arguing against reality. Recently, two acclaimed scientific bodies (The Royal Society
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: PM to call for emergency debate on Ukrainiant democracy
Inspired by @stephenlautens & this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/harper-to-call-for-emergency-debate-on-ukraine-1.2510898
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Stewart vs. O’Reilly – The Great Debate
Great from the opening statement forward. Filed under: Politics Tagged: Bill O’Reilly, Debate, Jon Stewart
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Why not a McQuaig vs. Mulcair debate on natural resource development?
As I predicted back in September, the Mulcair NDP has wasted no time in demonstrating that the “Love is better than anger” NDP is long gone, as Mulcair candidates in the by-elections (particularly Toronto Centre) have spared no opportunity in launching angry attacks on the third-party Liberals. Mulcair’s candidate in
Continue readingChadwick's Blog & Commentary: Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
I was thinking of the lines from that Fairport Convention song this week as we walked through Toronto on our three-day mini-holiday. I can still hear Sandy Denny’s wonderful, haunting voice singing the chorus of that dreamy, sad song, as … Continue reading →
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