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April 2014
21
Women Who Kick Butt
06
I Don’t Always Vote, But When I Do…
01
Don’t Get Fooled Again
March 2014
29
Earth Hour Prayer
28
Norman Borlaug Saved a Billion Lives
24
Left and Right Both Wrong on Poverty
21
Humanity Doomed, Says Chicken Little
20
Vaccine “Skeptics” Are Too Credulous
17
Once Upon a Time in Quebec
13
David Friedman: His Reputation Precedes Him
12
Have You Given to Ford… Lately?
09
Reading, Fast and Slow
06
Bilingualism for Everyone!
03
You Got Your “Vision” in My Freedom
02
Dallas Buyers Club Is Outstanding
February 2014
27
The Gold Medal for Freestyle Homophobia
24
Arresting Mexican Drug Lords Is No Solution
21
The Minimum Wage Hike Trolley Problem
18
The Stimulus Debate and the Trouble with Counterfactuals
17
Sitting in a Chair in the Sky
13
The Glass Bead Game as Meditation
06
But Who Would Build the Bullet Train Lines?
04
Machines vs. Jobs: This Time, It’s Personal
02
US Farm Bill Is 948 Pages Too Long
January 2014
31
Trust Me, I’m a Blogger
30
Who Really Cares
29
State of the Individual
27
Asset Forfeiture Comes to Canada
22
Suzuki Retracts Off-the-Cuff Fear Mongering
20
The Poverty of Minimum Wage Laws
17
Varieties of Climate Skepticism
16
Is Doing What You Love a Bad Thing?
11
We Need More Basketball Diplomacy
10
“Promise Zones” All But Irrelevant
07
The Impressionists Battled Giants, and Won
06
Fear of “Agent Orange” Crops
03
Up with Pot, Down with Tobacco
02
Ration Your Resolve
December 2013
23
Two Nights Before Christmas, 1913
20
Eight Lives
18
More Than Just a Film about a Wall
16
Of Course Americans Are More Generous
13
Global Cancer Scare
12
The Passion of Barbara Branden
11
US Proudly Loses $10.5 Billion Saving GM
10
Where’s My Calvin and Hobbes Merch?
06
A True Freedom Fighter
05
Overstating Male-Female Brain Differences
04
Price Fixers of the World, Unite!
03
Drawing a Line in the Sky
02
The Pleasure of Driving and the Pain of Traffic
November 2013
28
Why Not Be Kind to Yourself?
27
Montreal and Its Literature Celebrated in Song
26
Romancing the (Kidney) Stone
25
Rogue Dentist Guilty of Something or Other
22
JFK: Deciding What to Believe
21
Electronic Cigarettes and Regulatory Capture
20
Intellectual Property Is Weird
19
Quebec Will Not Toughen Language Laws, For Now
18
China’s Long March to Reproductive Freedom
14
A Symbolic 1,776 Feet
13
Can You Make a Pencil?
12
Wealthier Is Healthier
11
Remembrance Day 2038
08
Is the Pursuit of Happiness Antisocial?
07
The Future of Solar Power Is Bright
06
A Mayor, a Crack Pipe, and a Whole Lotta Booze
05
Ender’s Game and The Book of Mormon
04
New Montreal Mayor Has 13% Voter Support
01
Oh Happy Danes: Is It Really the Welfare Programs?
October 2013
31
Scariest Halloween Costume: Fully Informed Juror
30
The Counterintuitive Workings of Gravity in Orbit
29
Us and Them and Our Biases
28
Democracy or Freedom?
25
EU-Canada Trade Deal Is a Good Thing
24
Most Americans Now Support Legalizing Pot
23
Why You Should Stop Worrying and Read This Blog