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The Tower of Babble: December 2011
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The Tower of Babble. Babbling on and on since 2006. Saturday, December 31, 2011. My 2011 Top 5 List of Non-Fiction. I doubt anybody's actually on here to read this right now. If they have any sense they're out celebrating, but I shall keep my promise all the same, and put down the second half of my 2011 reading list. Enjoy! My Top 5 Non-Fiction Books I Read in 2011. 5 What the Buddha Never Taught. 4 Harperland: The Politics of Control. 3 The Moral Landscape. I found his ideas incredibly provocative, and ...
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The Tower of Babble: Report: 2 Months in TO
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The Tower of Babble. Babbling on and on since 2006. Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Report: 2 Months in TO. Myself. If nothing else, there’s certainly never a dull. In this post I want to give you a brief glimpse of my experiences in my new home, thus far. Talkin' about the Weather. Yes, there’s the smog. It’s mostly noticeable on the really hot days. The dull, oppressive haze above, and the hot garbage-y vapours wafting up from lodes of sewage beneath your feet. And the heat. My Go...Anything on those days, a...
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The Tower of Babble: January 2012
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The Tower of Babble. Babbling on and on since 2006. Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Belated Bog Post: New Years Resolutions. New Years may be SO four and a half weeks ago, but the year is still new by my books, so I think it still counts if I put my New Years resolutions up here. By the way, it's been a very busy and eventful month, so I apologize for the absence. You'll want to say, or "what an asshole! I'm movin' up in the world! These are my two main resolutions for 2012. I share them also so that anyb...
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The Tower of Babble: June 2012
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The Tower of Babble. Babbling on and on since 2006. Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Report: 2 Months in TO. Myself. If nothing else, there’s certainly never a dull. In this post I want to give you a brief glimpse of my experiences in my new home, thus far. Talkin' about the Weather. Yes, there’s the smog. It’s mostly noticeable on the really hot days. The dull, oppressive haze above, and the hot garbage-y vapours wafting up from lodes of sewage beneath your feet. And the heat. My Go...Anything on those days, a...
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The Tower of Babble: March 2012
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The Tower of Babble. Babbling on and on since 2006. Tuesday, March 27, 2012. In the Market for a Cause. An activist-for-hire, as it were? We don’t really know what to do with the vast landfill the internet has become, for example. Its variety and its volubility has created this false sense that we are capable of managing it. And yet we’re expected to know instinctively how to manage it. Rule #1: Stay Informed. Okay, sure. Sounds reasonable. But exactly what should we be staying informed on? I certainly h...
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The Tower of Babble: February 2012
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The Tower of Babble. Babbling on and on since 2006. Sunday, February 26, 2012. Wrestling with the Rottweiler: On Reading Mr. Dawkins. So I finally read the controversial bestseller The God Delusion. By Richard Dawkins, two years after. I read- and almost unquestioningly accepted- one of its formal rebuttals, Karen Armstrong’s The Case For God. And even less so than Hitchens in God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. And John Shelby Spong in The Sins of Scripture. Religion = Child Abuse. Anothe...
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The Tower of Babble: Wrestling with the Rottweiler: On Reading Mr. Dawkins
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The Tower of Babble. Babbling on and on since 2006. Sunday, February 26, 2012. Wrestling with the Rottweiler: On Reading Mr. Dawkins. So I finally read the controversial bestseller The God Delusion. By Richard Dawkins, two years after. I read- and almost unquestioningly accepted- one of its formal rebuttals, Karen Armstrong’s The Case For God. And even less so than Hitchens in God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. And John Shelby Spong in The Sins of Scripture. Religion = Child Abuse. Anothe...
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The Tower of Babble: Belated Bog Post: New Years Resolutions
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The Tower of Babble. Babbling on and on since 2006. Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Belated Bog Post: New Years Resolutions. New Years may be SO four and a half weeks ago, but the year is still new by my books, so I think it still counts if I put my New Years resolutions up here. By the way, it's been a very busy and eventful month, so I apologize for the absence. You'll want to say, or "what an asshole! I'm movin' up in the world! These are my two main resolutions for 2012. I share them also so that anyb...
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The Tower of Babble: July 2012
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The Tower of Babble. Babbling on and on since 2006. Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Apologia for A Game of Thrones. If you are curious about the book series A Song of Ice and Fire. By George R.R. Martin. Or the HBO series Game of Thrones. But haven't looked into either, please read and consider. Over a month ago I was sitting in a theatre with Kayla, waiting for a play to start, and I overheard a guy and a girl, both around our age, a couple of rows behind me, talking about A Game of Thrones. I don’t know ...
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The Tower of Babble: November 2011
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The Tower of Babble. Babbling on and on since 2006. Sunday, November 20, 2011. A Comedy of Terror: "Four Lions" Review. Terrorism is no laughing matter. At least that’s how we all seem to feel in the post-9/11 West. But director Christopher Morris obviously begged to differ when he and his crack team of actors made the film Four Lions. Their leader Omar, played by Riz Ahmed, struggles to keep his fellow hopeless mujahideen. You certainly hope they at least don't get caught. Now go watch the whole thing!