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Musings From the 21st Century

This blog is a collection of random thoughts, videos, news items, commentaries, and essays. Some have to do with human performance, some have to do with current affairs, and some are just stuck in here because I have nowhere else to put them. Mostly, though, it's a view of the world, and especially of Canada, as seen by a common guy travelling through the first part of the 21st century.

Trump's Big Parade

US Army 250th Anniversary Parade On June 14, 2025, President Donald Trump oversaw the biggest American military parade since 1991, in...

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Jun 26, 20253 min read

Chemtrails: Part Two

Courtesy Python Maps My last post was not the end of the chemtrail/contrail story. It goes much deeper. This post is an attempt to...

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Oct 21, 20245 min read

Chemtrails: Real or Not?

This is a topic that seems to have heated up in recent years on the internet. I feel qualified to discuss it since I spent 18 years as an...

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Oct 10, 20244 min read

How Your Car Might Give Away Your Politics

I have always thought that one's choice of car correlates with their political leaning. Studies in recent years in the United States have...

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Aug 22, 20244 min read

2024 Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies: Was There An Agenda or Not?

In ths post, I want to do two things: briefly analyze the actual production of the ceremonies and analyze the social commentary of them....

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Aug 10, 20244 min read

The Culture of Death in Canada, Part Three: A Financial Analysis

I have discussed the two main divisive issues regarding the current culture of death in Canada, namely abortion and euthanasia (also...

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Apr 16, 20246 min read

Artificial Intelligence as a Visual Art Form

I have been working with artificial intelligence (AI) as a visual art form for a couple of months as of this date. By that I...

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Mar 23, 20245 min read

The Culture of Death in Canada, Part Two: Euthanasia

I have previously argued that the Canadian abortion fiasco is the result of faulty reasoning by the judiciary, based on their assessment...

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Dec 18, 20238 min read

Military Ethos, the Realities of Life, and Sexual Misconduct at Canadian Military Colleges

Well, it's a top news story again. This time the government is reviewing the future of Canada's military colleges. Recent high profile...

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Dec 6, 202312 min read

The Culture of Death in Canada, Part One: Abortion

"In his 1995 encyclical letter The Gospel of Life (Evangelium Vitae), Pope John Paul II sounded an alarm. In the midst of a culture that...

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Dec 6, 202310 min read

Judiciary Responsible for Our Morally Ambiguous Society

In case you haven't noticed, our society is awash in moral ambiguity (the inability to tell right from wrong). Here are four examples....

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Nov 25, 20238 min read

Belonging

We all want to belong. The unprecedented popularity of social media provides irrefutable proof. In fact, we now know that having a sense...

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Nov 25, 20238 min read

From the Perspective of an Early Boomer

We all know about the Baby Boomer generation and its influence on the world. For the members of most other generations, the relationship...

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Nov 25, 20234 min read

Time for a Patriotic Speech

I wrote this very short post way back in 2018 and I still feel the same way. I can't put my finger on it, but no matter what the subject,...

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Oct 31, 20231 min read