Marc | January 4, 2012
It is with a sad heart that I post this. My friend of nearly forty years, Bill Craig (aka the Reverend Doctor William Leonard Craig), died suddenly at his home in Toronto on Christmas day. He was truly a gentleman of the old school; a man of style, [...]
Marc | November 8, 2011
The Update Well, I haven’t blogged much this year for a whole variety of reasons, too long to go into here. Let me just say that, to quote Her Royal Highness, it has been a bit of an anno horribilis! Regardless of that, I actually have been working away at various projects, including one I’ll [...]
Marc | May 25, 2011
It’s been a while since I last posted. In part, that’s because I have been busy and, honestly, also because I haven’t had any fully formed thoughts that I thought worth posting . That said, I just got back from New York on tour with the OBC and our Carnegie Hall debut. It was certainly [...]
Marc | July 11, 2010
In the part 1, I tried to establish certain guidelines for how I am looking at ethics, morality and, to a much lessor degree, group dynamics surrounding these issues. The overarching model I use for this is taken fairly directly from Wm. Calvin’s work on Darwinian bootstrapping (op.cit.) which I have found to be both [...]
Marc | June 29, 2010
Apologies for not posting much in the past while. I have been prepping a new course that started last week and, what with my singing commitments, I just haven’t had the time or energy to do much posting. I am hoping to get a series of new posts out over the next week or so. [...]
Marc | June 1, 2010
In my last post, I talked about critical thinking and noted that one of the problems I have been seeing recently lies in the communicative nature of thinking / research. I wanted to expand on this idea a bit, and look at some of the issues surround what, for want of a better term, we [...]
Marc | April 8, 2010
CBC.ca has just announced that local imam Khaled Abdul-Hamid Syed gets to stay in Canada until the end of his contract with the local, Ottawa mosque is over in 2011. Now, I have never met him, but I do know a bit about the local mosque, and I am glad that he has been granted [...]
Marc | February 17, 2010
The people in the past used to worship the idols which they used to make with their hands. Nowadays, people worship idols which are more intellectual – like democracy, liberalism, freedom, and so on. So these need to be destroyed as well, and replaced with worshipping and obeying Allah. (source: Anjem Choudary) I rarely write [...]
Marc | January 29, 2010
Margaret Atwood was recently honoured with a Chrystal Award at the World Economic Forum. The true esteem in which the Arts are held by the WEF, however, was clearly shown in how they handled the acceptance speaches by the various winners: the canceled them. I really can’t let this go by both as an Anthropologist [...]
Marc | January 1, 2010
Back on the 12th, I put up a short post about December having been a trying month. What I didn’t mention then was that my wife Leslie and I were separating. We have spent the last 18 months trying to see if we could work out our differences but came to the conclusion early last [...]
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