The Surly Bonds
While Donald Trump is untethering from reality, which is a bad thing, you and I are being untethered from tradition, which is a good thing.
July 20, 2021
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Category: Ramsay Writes
Cancelling Controversy
You’d think universities are where controversy could flex its delts. Isn’t controversy a purpose of a university? To test out new ideas by debating them
July 13, 2021
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An iPhone for the Arts
Last year, the tech giants made almost a trillion dollars in revenues. Put a different way: a thousand billion. It’s little wonder that governments starved
July 8, 2021
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MEMORY LOSS AND MEMORY LAWS
Denial is a terrible thing. Indeed, the primary symptom of the disease of alcoholism and addiction is the person afflicted with it saying they don’t
July 6, 2021
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A New Take on Bad Bosses
I wasn’t aware that failure was now a movement, rather than just a lack of success. It grew out of the idea that we learn
July 2, 2021
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Don’t Tax the Rich
A bullshit job is meaningless or unnecessary work which the worker is forced to pretend has a purpose. Millions of people, often HR consultants, communications
June 29, 2021
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Disown the Podium
Remember The March of the Penguins, where all the male Emperor Penguins huddled together for warmth in the coldest place on earth and Morgan Freeman
June 24, 2021
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Writing Like Crazy
Donald Trump is “writing” a “book.” I italicize those words because their meaning to Mr. Trump is quite different from what you and I mean.
June 22, 2021
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A Hole in 3
What’s delightful about the dreadful sexual abuse scandals consuming Canada’s military is, no matter how blind and deaf our generals are to investigating their own
June 17, 2021
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Re-opening Meets Re-awakening
I remember March 13th last year. It was a Friday, and the day most North Americans left our workplaces and hunkered down for the coming
June 15, 2021
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Death by Civilization
One thing about the Nazis is that they were excellent record-keepers. It’s because of this that six million Jewish families knew who among them had
June 10, 2021
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Open the Arts!
It’s unfair to say Doug Ford doesn’t like Margaret Atwood. Ten years ago he said he wouldn’t even recognize her on the street. But he
June 8, 2021
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