Goin' Rogue Under the BusIn the wake of this momentous election I got the requisite ‘history’ piece out of the way and soon will come the ‘brass tacks’ piece about what it is that needs to be done in order to “get this country moving again.” As my John McCain airquotes indicate, though, it’s clear that clichés have been as much a part of this ( Read more... )

The BridgeWell, what can now, at last be said ( Read more... )

“I’ll Tell You, And You Listen”

I'll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far fetched resolutions. They are then pickled into a rigid dogma, a code, and you go through the years sticking to that, out-dated, misplaced, irrelevant to the real needs, and you end in the grotesque chaos of a Labour council - a Labour council ( Read more... )

Conviction of a CityIn a big way I had hoped to take a very long and extended holiday from this political season. I’m certainly regretting the words I chose to end one of these articles several months ago (“Now that’s change I can believe in”) largely because it seemed to be a ringing endorsement of Barack Obama who has long since disappointed me ( Read more... )

Chariots of FireThis series of columns has, I hope, told a bizarre and peculiar story about the futility one can find in the course of Human events. A world in which history is condemned to repeat itself and all political posturing and movement is ripe for conversion to any sort of humour. The arcane vicissitudes of our nature, secular and ( Read more... )

The Wright StuffAny political column worth its salt needs a bad pun for a title before it can become legendary. So I submit this one to the Academy, wish me luck! But just what is the Wright stuff all about, anyhow ( Read more... )

No Country For Young MenIn my time writing in this space I know that my readers have ever held me to the highest standards of integrity, and of late I am afraid that I have not been able to live up to that lofty goal. I have, in fact, let you all down- and it weighs heavily on my heart to have done so, a great bubbling cyst on my soul, even ( Read more... )

More Human Than HumanWe all know the sort, in some capacity. Idealistic, oft long haired, perhaps trendy protestors who believe waving a sign about can meaningfully change anything. We all, at least those of us still in our prized youth, can claim such folk as friends. But how many of them own bulldozers? Or better yet, actually *use* them at ( Read more... )

So It BeginsIt is a question that vexes the thoughtful at some point in their lives, and perhaps at many: Do the ends justify the means? Can a Machiavellian perspective on life be twisted to achieve the ends of virtue and justice? For me and other idealists the answer is almost always no. In my convictions regarding the War on Terror my sincere ( Read more... )

I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

~Proverbs 8:12

The Sacred Compass

The quote that begins this next chapter in our religious saga is a fine example of something good from the Bible. The entire eighth chapter of Proverbs is a poem dedicated to wisdom, personified as a woman no less. It’s useful to begin ( Read more... )