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The US Health Care Debate

American politics are so polarized at the moment around the issue of health care that it’s hard to envision a favourable outcome.  I would define a favourable outcome as a more cost-efficient system that guarantees coverage for all American citizens and...

Is Levi Johnston outplaying Sarah Palin?

Sarah Palin’s greatest gift to popular culture (among many) might just well be Levi Johnston.  His cause celebre has been taken up by D-List genius Kathy Griffin.  For such a comedian the spectacle of a rube among the Hollywood elite, unprepared as he remains...

The Drug Trade in BC: You’re Soaking In It..

British Columbia’s economy has remained relatively bouyant through the global economic turmoil.  One example of this is home prices… whereas Real Estate in popular cities like Los Angeles, Miami, and others have experienced 20%-40% declines amid massive...

Sarah Palin, as interpreted by William Shatner

On “This Week in Sarah Palin”, Sarah Palin’s extremely odd final speech as the governor of Alaska Sunday was interpreted by Master Thespian William Shatner for Conan O’Brien last night.  Genius.  You’re the man, Bill.  With the loss of...

The Open Debate on Chinese Internet Proliferation

Statistics lauding the growth of the Internet in China have become so commonplace as to inspire yawns, despite breathless press reports of hundreds of millions of Chinese going online and signing up for the ‘net.  With the Chinese Government declaring that...

MSFT vs GOOG: The New Cold War?

When I was a child growing up in the suburbs of Vancouver, we conducted regular drills to rehearse for what we believed was the inevitability of a nuclear assault at the hands of an evil Communist empire half a world away.  This was the height of the cold war, and as...