Pop The Stack
Blog URL http://popthestack.wordpress.com
Located Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
Tags science, democracy, politics, election, canada, education, cosmology, religion, philosophy
Opinions on Science, Democracy and Philosophy from a Computer Science Geek with a penchant for hacking reality.
Latest Blog Posts
- A Dark Source for our Familiar Myths on Nov 23, 2009 in Science astronomy cosmology dark matter sky stars
Just a quick comment on this fascinating story up at the newscientist about the possible dark matter original of our familar bright constellation stars. I’m quite interested in astronomy and I didn’t know that most of the bright stars t...
- Nation Builder of the Decade ala Globe on Nov 18, 2009 in Politics award canada constitution electoral reform fairvote gay marriage nation builder notwithstanding
The globe and mail is running a question for its readers, who is the ‘Nation Builder’ of the past decade? They suggest some names as well as the yearly Nation Builder winners from each of the past 10 years. Its a fascinating read, you s...
- Throwing Cold Water On Progress on Nov 6, 2009 in Politics coalition conservative democracy election electoral reform fairvote liberal NDP parliament proportional voting queen
Talk about a downer. Lawrence Martin at the venerable old G&B has a great, concise explanation of three major institutional changes that many people want to see in Canada in the coming decade in time for Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017 : a...
- You thought I was crazy? Another Strategic Proposal for NDP-Libs on Nov 3, 2009 in Politics Canadian Election 2009 coalition election electoral reform fairvote liberal NDP proportional representation strategic voting
Well, my last post suggesting that the Green Party strike a strategic deal with other parties to get their fair share of the votes generated a lot of good discussion. Most of you answered my final question “Am I crazy?” with a decided &...
- How the Green Party Could Make a Difference on Oct 29, 2009 in Politics coalition conservative election electoral reform Elizabeth May fairvote Green liberal parliament proportional voting
It looks like we’re not going to have a federal election for at least 5 months now so its time for the parties to pull back and consider strategy. Clearly that’s what the Liberals are doing with their recent change of chief of staff. ...
- Reckless Talk by Polling ‘Experts’ on Oct 22, 2009 in Politics Science canada conservatives ekos electio Harper ignatieff liberals nanos poll
You know what they say about polls…well I don’t believe they are all lies and statistics about Canadian opinions can be very useful, when considered in a balanced way. Apparently if you are the head of a polling firm, such as Nik Nanos,...
- Goodbye Rex. on Oct 17, 2009 in Politics Science cbc climate environment global warming Green p2
Dear Rex Murphy, I always thought you were intelligent and usually gave you the benefit of the doubt when I disagreed with you, you use such big words you see… but then you wrote this article about global warming. Well I’m done now, you&#...
