Beyond the Rhetoric

Some people know the town as Sin City. Others are a little too familiar with the one-armed bandits and the cocktail waitresses in short skirts. For the more technologically inclined in the month of January, it’s known as the home of the Consumer Electronics Show. That’s right, I’m back in Las Vegas this week for [...]

Admit it. You know you’ve done it. You know you’re probably going to do it again and you probably aren’t feel the slightest bit of guilt for doing it. Chances are that you may have done it during this most recent holiday shopping season, because you ran out of last minute gift ideas. I speak, [...]

Last month, Vancouver endured one of the biggest snowfalls in the city’s history, but we thought that we had survived the worst of it. Waking up Saturday morning, I discovered that the sky had opened up again with another massive snowfall on the way. Despite the less than ideal weather conditions, the Dot Com Pho [...]

The typical web surfer has a notoriously short attention span, so it’s not at all surprising that the “regular” readers of Beyond the Rhetoric at the beginning of 2008 are a little different than the people who are still reading my blog today. In this way, if you happened to join the BTR community at [...]

Since I changed the sidebar heading from Top Commentators to Top Thinkers, I thought it would only be appropriately that the monthly roundup post took on the same kind of vernacular. While many people were out doing some Christmas gift shopping, they still found some time to leave their mark on Beyond the Rhetoric as [...]