BC Guild of Wine Judges

Now a member.

First Westwood Lake Oyster Mushrooms of the Season

... to go with the chinook I caught in March and the Domaine Renegade pinot noir I bottled in 2009. Yum.

Stickiness

Examining a peculiar attraction.

If God Is Dead, Your Time Is Everything

Martin Hägglund argues that rigorous secularism leads to socialism.

Against Cheerfulness

Practising the Greek virtues of wisdom and courage is one thing. But being cheerful the American way borders on psychosis.

Against Advice

It would be really nice if information that could transform someone’s values was able to be handed over as cheaply as driving instructions.

Not No Man’s Land

Historians have  discarded the lie that the ‘frontier’ was an empty Eden waiting for American expansion—but not David McCullough. You will find that Wagon Days is a far better read.

We Have Returned from Mauritius and Seychelles