We worship algorithms as modern deities, surrendering choice and seeking certainty in technology’s cold, omnipresent logic....
A nation’s past is never dead—just buried, denied, or rewritten. This piece explores how countries erase what they can’t face, and why forgotten sins always return....
A fierce takedown of how rebellion gets sanitized, repackaged, and sold back to us as lifestyle branding—and why true counterculture survives anyway....
Government surpluses shift debt onto citizens; Graeber reveals money as obligation, exposing austerity as power and silence as ritualized control....
A deep dive into how “third places” — the public spaces that exist between home and work — are struggling to survive in the digital era, yet remain essential for social cohesion and creativity....
If I had a nickel for every time, during a debate, someone pulled the fact that they hold a degree in the very field being debated as a defence to their argument and they turned out to be wrong, and I...
Lungs from pack-a-day smokers safe for transplant, study finds… Yup! Smoking “causes lung cancer”, right? And it wreaks havoc on healthy lungs, right? Smoking is the embodiment of pu...
I recall once, a number of years ago, having an argument with a rabid anti-smoker. After a continuous and somewhat lengthy stream of me shooting down each of his arguments with reasoned opinion and do...
How very odd! I have a pack of Export 'A' king size cigarettes sitting right in front of me. The pack contains a very clear warning, spoken in absolute terms, from our friends at Health Canada. It st...
A recent post on a discussion board in this Facebook group has given me a chuckle. Someone named Peter Thurgood has come up with what sounds to be a highly amusing game. He calls it "Chase the Antis."...
Over a quarter of the world's population smokes. Yet, mouth cancer is a very rare disease. That, by force of logic, makes crap like this nothing more than fallacious, sensationalistic, fear mongering...
The current anti-smoking mindset epidemic infecting the general population has nothing to do with irrational hysteria, right? That's why scenes depicting radical lunacy, such as is found in the vid...
