It is the same at age 60 as it was at age 6; whether you are the town doctor or the town drunk, the principles do not change. When you have made a mistake — and by this I mean when you have fucked-up good and proper —there are exactly four duties you must attend…

May you be gifted just enough grace to rise each time you fallBut not so much grace that you lose sense of the wonder and peril of the journey May the angels of Gethsemane lift you up in your hour of despairBut not so high that you fail to learn the lessons despair is teaching…

I realize this is a departure from my usual fare, so perhaps I should start with a personal note just to give the reader some context. I have been stricken with intractable insomnia. No matter what remedy I try, chamomile tea, warm milk, melatonin, vigorous exercise, etc I am rarely able to sleep for more…

Because of the way we, as a society, have decided to fund the Internet – through advertising revenue – the goal of all online interactions, from the point of view of the service provider, has become to gather as much data as possible about you – the consumer – in order to influence what you…

The Background The United States National Security Agency (NSA) logs the metadata of all electronic communications that pass through US networks. This program is well known and acknowledged by the NSA. Given the general design of network routing and the anemic state of Canada’s IT infrastructure, this dragnet captures a vast swath of Canadian communications.…