This is the blog where I lead you on that I'm endorsing someone but really don't.

• February 23, 2011

“I don’t know what I’m talking about, I’m just a disgruntled voter.“ There’s this one person I can talk to who will invariably give me a plain, unvarnished view on life. He says I’m an idiot, I say he’s an idiot, and at the end of the day we can always go for a beer together. We’ve argued back and forth nigh on 30 years now, I guess. The funny thing is, in all that time, he’s never been wrong. Read More

What's on Second-ary?

• February 9, 2011

Is it just me or is City Council bound and determined to hit each and every contentious issue in the book while they’re riding the Nenshi honeymoon high? One of the things I’ve been doing a little lately is going back and reading what I wrote as the election was happening. It serves as a really nice reminder to what we were talking about and what never hit radar as far as issues went. Read More

Four Strong Winds

• February 5, 2011

Okay, I’m working on this reputation of long, rambling, hopefully meaningful or descriptive blog entries and giving quite the skewed perception of who I am as a person. I’m going to fix that a little tonight. I’m giving you two dimensions of myself. I had to run out to do a couple errands this evening, so I hopped in the car and thought I’d flip over to the hockey game when I got sidetracked by Randy’s Vinyl Tap. Read More

Top Ten Ways the Alberta Party is Going to Do Politics Differently

• February 1, 2011

Brian Mason said today that no one could give him an answer to how the Alberta Party was going to do politics differently. (I’m only paraphrasing, I wish I was smart enough to get his actual quote so I could do him justice.) At the risk of enlightening him, here’s my semi-serious top ten: The Top Ten ways the Alberta Party is going to do politics differently: 10. Tweet our way to victory! Read More

Dancing across a crowded floor

• January 30, 2011

What a week that was. I’m trying hard to reconcile my thoughts enough to have a point to say and by the time I had two or three points I wanted to write down there was another seismic blast under my feet. The month continues to be incredibly busy and now I’m certain there will not be a let up for at least a few more weeks. Unfortunate and disappointing and much more motivating to increase my personal productivity and improve my time management. Read More

Fluoridation in Calgary

• January 25, 2011

This entry is long overdue. A few weeks back I woke and the first thing I heard coming from my radio was Druh Farrell discussing fluoride and she used the phrase, “Science continues to evolve.” What a ludicrous thing to hear upon waking. I find the collective scientific literacy in our society to be terrible. Abysmal. Horrifyingly bad. Utterly disturbing. Science, most certainly, does not evolve in any sense of either word. Read More

Hey Dad, what's that button for?

• December 20, 2010

When I met Sue Huff in Calgary, I picked up a Big Listen button from the Alberta Party. I’ve been wearing it around ever since. “Hey Dad, what’s that button for?“ “It’s to make people ask questions.“ “No, really, what’s it for?“ Well, that’s a small success. When I spoke with Sue, the first thing that impressed me was that she really listened to what I said. None of this faux listening I’ve become accustomed to from dealing with anything governmental. Read More

I have a small apartment and a very large home

• December 15, 2010

Sittin’ in the kitchen awailin’ on the old guitar. I’m thinkin’ about becomin’ the world’s biggest rock and roll star. Well I’d give it a shot, lose or win but I don’t think I could fit everybody in. ‘cause sittin’ in the kitchen’ the only place I’d try a stunt like that.  - the magnificent and incomparable Bob Snider. I can’t fit everyone into my kitchen, but I’m so glad that I’ve found a big political home. Read More

My view of health care in Alberta

• December 10, 2010

I know that Sue Huff is going to release the Alberta Party’s view on health care soon. Given that it’s such a hot issue in this province, I wanted to get my thoughts out ahead of her (I hope) and see just how they correlate. I am not a health care administrator. I am not a doctor or a nurse. I do not manage a hospital or health care facility. I do not work for Friends of Medicare, nor do I work for any form of private medical services. Read More

CivicCamp 3D - Promises to Ourselves.

• December 9, 2010

Last Saturday I have the extreme pleasure of attending Civic Camp 3D - an opportunity for Calgarians to come together and find ways which they could make our city better. One of our objectives was to break into action groups and amongst our groups come up with a 140 character promise to our city in how we would enact positive change. My wish was that on Monday I would be able to tweet (as @BetterYYC) a link to the compiled list of tweets both for posterity’s sake and as a way that my fellow Calgarians could find ideas they could help accomplish. Read More