Beyond the Rhetoric

Every Wednesday, I link around to five different blog posts that I’ve found on the Internet. Last week, for example, we had a look at everything from festivals to Inception. This week, have a similarly eclectic assortment of posts. Sit back, grab a coffee, and enjoy. Chloe Gow-Jarrett is the founder of SHIFTED and now [...]

“I’ve always had a passion for hockey, … That’s the key. You can’t be putting in time. You have to enjoy doing what you do.” Someone once said that if something isn’t fun, then it isn’t worth doing. While I wouldn’t quite go that far with a life philosophy, I do feel that it is [...]

Every Wednesday, we go on a brief tour of the blogosphere to highlight some of the best posts of the Internet. Beyond the Rhetoric isn’t just a soap box for my thoughts, so I do this every week to encourage some more conversation with other like-minded individuals. If you want to be featured in a [...]

It’s an error that I have been seeing more and more often in the last couple of weeks, thanks largely to the start of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Yup, the Opening Ceremonies are tonight, kicking off two full weeks of intense competition. When an athlete wins his event, earning the right to ascend that [...]

The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing had five mascots. For the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler, we’re going to have three official mascots and one unofficial one. For all eight of these characters, I think that we see another demonstration of the inherent racism of the Olympics, but I think we can all [...]