Category Archives: News

Secular Sunday – The World Is Not Divided Into Countries

Harvard Professor Says Carney’s Speech Was a “Big Deal”

Secular Sunday – One of the Biggest Challenges To My Atheism

Friday Fun Link – Canadian Astronaut Heading To The Moon

This is pretty amazing…  

Alex Honnold’s Best Moments From #SkyscraperLive

I watched this after it was initially broadcast so I’d heard he makes it to the top of the building successfully.  I still nearly shit myself watching – vertigo, worrying about a man falling to his death but also stunned at what human beings are capable of.

Music Monday – “Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down/Should have been gone long ago/What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground/How can you run when you know?

History doesn’t repeat.  But it rhymes… “Ohio” – Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Friday Fun Link – Carney vs. Trump at Davos

CBC put together a collection of contrasting clips from Carney's and Trump's speeches at the World Economic Forum. pic.twitter.com/V0qGk89snA — Scott Robertson (@sarobertsonca) January 23, 2026 This is another good analysis… Here’s another fantastic, detailed breakdown of why PM Carney’s speech in Davos was so brilliant. pic.twitter.com/OtwBEgZaZ3 — Stephano?Barberis (@HelloStephano) January 26, 2026  

Key Concepts For Understanding Our Current World

Incredibly important to understand these concepts, psychological dynamics, and experiments in order to know what’s going on in the world. pic.twitter.com/j2ntoZsacF — D. Alec Zeck (@Alec_Zeck) January 17, 2026  

Secular Sunday – We Have 180 Catalogued Brain Biases That Are Not Compatible With The Modern World

Of particular relevance to the atheist typing right now is the idea that even if you lose religion, you will find some other tribe to give your life meaning – for me, that’s progressive politics and hockey fandom and other things that go beyond “I like this” to the secular equivalent of religious tenants such […]

Saturday Snap – How Sad Is It…

…that the free evening skate time at a local arena has about a million times more diversity than our recently re-shuffled Provincial cabinet which isn’t exactly “From Many Peoples Strength”?