I read a lot of stuff. It's pretty rare that I read something and think "Wow. This guy really nailed it." This is one of those articles. I'm posting the article in it's entirety here but the guy who wrote it is named Paul Graham and it was originally published on his website here. Link Enjoy. _________________________________________________________________ WHAT YOU CAN'T SAY Have you ever seen an old photo of yourself and been embarrassed at the way you looked? Did we actuall...

Some people have short memories. They forget what happened the last time a VitriolBot badgered me for data to support my thesis. Part one of this post was inspired in part by Brad whining about taxes. It was also inspired by the Point Whores who have been attacking the less fortunate in order to score cheap points on the JoeUser board. I posited that American taxes are not nearly as low as they should be, partially on account of military spending. Military spending has increased because of...

This is an editorial I found interesting, it was originally Published on Saturday, June 7, 2003 by the Toronto Star Bush's Credibility Founders on Iraq Editorial Saddam Hussein was no garden-variety despot, U.S. President George Bush told Americans earlier this year in his State of the Union address. He was a mass murderer, a terror master and a threat to world peace. Saddam was "assembling the world's most dangerous weapons," Bush insisted. His vast arsenal included 25,000 li...

From Statistics Canada 2001 Census Handbook: Link 5.4 Ethnic Origin With one exception (1891), decennial censuses since 1871 included a question on the “origins” of respondents. The purpose of the ethnic origin question is to collect data on the ethnic or cultural ancestry of the Canadian population. Comparability of ethnic origin data has been affected by several factors including changes in the question wording, format, examples, instructions and data processing, as well as by th...

From WikiPedia, the online encycolpedia: Link Multiculturalism or cultural pluralism is a policy, ideal, or reality that emphasizes the unique characteristics of different cultures in the world, especially as they relate to one another in immigrant receiving nations. The term was coined in Canada in the 1960s, but has since spread around the world. In dealing with immigrants groups and their cultures, there are essentially three approaches- Monoculturalism: In most Old World ...