John Willis


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Arctic Sovereignty -- But Why?

After the ignominious failure of the (Canadian) Liberals' 'Green Shift' under former leader Stephane Dion, we should expect the party to take a step to the right as new leader Michael Ignatieff waltzes onto the dance floor with intentions to cut into the Harper Tories' centrist positioning. How else to dispel the down-market leftist Eau d'Ion that clung to the party during the fall election campaign? Right on cue, and... (posted by John 3 years 114 days ago.)
Goodbye blinkThink

Malcolm Gladwell's book, 'blink' is "about the kind of thinking that happens in a blink of an eye" according to the author's notes on gladwell.com. 'blinkThink' is my term for making a fetish of the 'blink', and blinkThink took a well-deserved drubbing in Barack Obama's Inauguration Speech last week. Obama proposes -- and, most importantly, he symbolizes -- a spirit of deliberation, of considering different points of view and... (posted by John 3 years 124 days ago.)