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Mobbing Ford

Posted on November 15, 2013 by motleydragon

This is the editorial cartoon by Graeme MacKay as it appeared in to-day’s Spectator.  The Hamilton and Toronto football teams play off in Toronto Sunday for a place in the Grey Cup game next week. Mayor Ford, a football enthusiast … Continue reading →

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Ford’s Folly

Posted on November 11, 2013 by motleydragon

  Football and Ford’s Folly Posted on November 26, 2012 by motleydragon Ford’s Folly, part 2 Posted on November 27, 2012 Rob Ford, Part 3 Posted on November 30, 2012

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November 11

Posted on November 11, 2013 by motleydragon

  Remembrance Day again…  we can take a sigh of relief that we have “done the right thing”, take the poppies off our coat, and begin shopping in earnest for Christmas.   In our public sphere… the offices and malls… Remembrance … Continue reading →

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Remembering Sagan

Posted on November 10, 2013 by motleydragon

Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence: 2 Posted on November 12, 2012 by motleydragon I wrote about Carl Sagan last year as well.  Here are the links. Michael Shermer and his colleagues are keeping Sagan’s valuable work alive. The website and the … Continue reading →

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A Universe Not Made for Us

Posted on November 9, 2013 by motleydragon

Carl Sagan was born on November 9, 1934.  This year would have marked only his 79th birthday. After suffering from a kind of leukemia, and receiving three bone marrow transplants, Sagan died of pneumonia at the age of 62.  An … Continue reading →

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Vatican asks for lay opinion

Posted on November 3, 2013 by motleydragon

Really! They need to take a poll?  I can only hope that this is widely advertised, so that those who have left the church out of frustration will hear about it and find a way to participate. Even then, I … Continue reading →

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Hallowe’n 8… The War of the Worlds

Posted on October 30, 2013 by motleydragon

PBS broadcast a new documentary about the Hallowe’en radio broadcast 75 years ago of The War of the Worlds. H.G.Wells wrote a good story, and the story of Orson Welles’ radio adaptation is a good story also. Was there really … Continue reading →

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A Rough History of Disbelief… 2

Posted on October 13, 2013 by motleydragon

Did you have time to read my blog last week, and watch the video by Jonathan Miller?  I have been thinking about it a lot, and about my decision to share my feelings and ideas more openly and deliberately.  It … Continue reading →

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A Rough History of Disbelief… 1

Posted on October 6, 2013 by motleydragon

I no longer attend any church, haven’t for many years now, but Sunday morning still feels like a time set apart from the rest of the week… a time for taking stock of my life, reading about religion, history and … Continue reading →

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Seeing the unseen

Posted on September 29, 2013 by motleydragon

Slow-motion photography What makes a camera slo-mo? According to the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), high-speed photography is defined as a camera capable of 128 frames per second or greater.  For the Phantom, that is child’s play, … Continue reading →

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