Beyond the Rhetoric

As we approach the end of 2009, I thought it would be apt to reflect on what I had to say on Beyond the Rhetoric in the preceding fifty-two weeks. Just as you can gather from looking at the top trending topics on Twitter for the year, you can reveal a lot about yourself by [...]

Yes, I know that December hasn’t quite drawn to a close just yet, but I have a burning suspicion that the list of top thinkers for the month probably won’t change in the next couple of days. It seems that Beyond the Rhetoric attracts the same comment-writers on a fairly regular basis. While I certainly [...]

One of the biggest reasons why I love the city of Vancouver is that we are treated to a huge range of authentic ethnic cuisine. If you want to eat food from just about any part of the world, there is a good chance that you can find an authentic eatery somewhere within the city [...]

For better or for worse, I didn’t have to suffer through a turkey coma this holiday season, though it sounds like I could be attending another turkey dinner in the next couple of days. I don’t know what it is about Christmas that makes us eat unfathomable quantities of gobbler. They say it is better [...]

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” Most people, myself included, are not terribly familiar with the name Albert Szent-Gyorgyi. It’s not exactly the kind of name that comes up during everyday conversations and he is not recognized among the general populace in the same way that we’d [...]