Category Archives: Armchair Philosophy

Pornographic Billboards (SFW)

By Adam Snider | Published: January 25, 2012

I walked out of the office on Monday morning, to do my usual mail run, and there she was, in all-caps Helvetica Bold: SASHA GREY. Sasha Grey, porn star, looked down at me with sultry eyes from a twenty-foot tall billboard across the street from my office. Apparently, Ms. Grey is going to be at [...]

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Have some unproductive time

By Adam Snider | Published: December 20, 2011

I don’t have a lengthy post to go along with this quote. I’m sharing it just because I know some people who could use the reminder. Hell, I could probably use the reminder. Be mindful of a change of pace during the holidays. In today’s world, with its relentless emphasis on success and productivity, we [...]

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Alison Redford is Alberta’s New Premier

By Adam Snider | Published: October 3, 2011

For two weeks now, since the closing of the first ballot in the Alberta PC Leadership Race, it was expected that Gary Mar would win the party leadership. To the surprise of just about everyone, Alison Redford ended up winning 51% of the votes on Saturday’s second ballot and secured a narrow win as a [...]

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Internet Spying Removed from Omnibus Crime Bill

By Adam Snider | Published: September 21, 2011

Electronic privacy advocates expressed relief Tuesday that the Harper government’s omnibus crime bill did not include measures to allow for greater spying of people’s online activities, saying the omission gives them time to press for fuller debate on the issue. “I take this as a positive, that even if (Prime Minister Stephen Harper) is going [...]

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How to Talk to Little Boys

By Adam Snider | Published: June 29, 2011

I’ve been following this MeFi thread with interest. The article that spurred the discussion is a bit too self-congratulatory and self-satisfied, but the conversation has been interesting. One of the things that’s come out of it is the idea that woman are trained from the time that they are very young to believe that their [...]

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Gender Roles

By Adam Snider | Published: June 9, 2011

As a man, I am supposed to be a provider. I am supposed to be strong and probably silent. This is what society tells me. And, yet, it is not really the reality of my situation. While I (kind of) fit the cliche of the “strong and silent” type, this is mostly just because I’m [...]

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False Premise

By Adam Snider | Published: June 3, 2011

As of last night, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers is on strike. As a result, my social networks are now flooded with posts from people saying that it is important to support the striking workers. The main reason that I should be supporting the postal workers, according to most of these posts, is because [...]

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Conservatives Making Campaign Promises for Future Elections?

By Adam Snider | Published: March 28, 2011

As we enter the 3rd day of Campaign 2011, the various political parties have finally taken a moment out of trying to paint each other as anti-democratic forces of evil and started talking about actual policy ideas. The most ludicrous of these, so far, has to be the Tories’ idea of allowing family income-splitting as [...]

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On Coalition Governments in Canada

By Adam Snider | Published: March 25, 2011

The rhetoric in this country surrounding even the idea of a coalition government annoys the hell out of me. People of all political stripes—but mostly Conservatives and Liberals—act as if it is not only somehow unethical, but actually illegal. Even Michael Ignatieff, whose Liberal party was pretty keen on the idea of a coalition in 2008 [1], has [...]

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Buying Local vs Buying Affordable

By Adam Snider | Published: March 22, 2011

I like to think that I’m a reasonable proponent of buying local. I wrote an entire Edmonton Local Shopping Guide, after all. But I’m also not a rich man by any stretch of the imagination (not by Western standards, at least). I can afford to feed, house, and clothe myself. And I can afford to pay for [...]

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