articles

this blog is composed of my scattered and very unordered thoughts, and it generally makes no attempt to be fit for publication - it is a diary, a journal, a scratchpad. it helps me to order my thoughts when i write them down, and enjoy sharing them, but it's intended to be strictly stream of consciousness.

sometimes, however, i will work out a specific argument or solve a specific problem over a series of posts in a way that is quasi-academic, and i have taken the time to order some of these specific threads into standalone pages. i've also includes some links to some papers that i wrote when i was in school.

so, while the blog is, in general, not intended to be rigorous, these isolated pages are meant to be fit for publication, as they are.

1999:

- christian imagery in george orwell’s “1984” (may, 1999)

2000:

- e.t. and the minotaur (fall, 2000)

2009:

- pulling a swift one: confusing philosophy with science (july, 2009)

- midterm rebuttal (august, 2009)

2010:

- starson v. swayze: an exploration of canada’s orwellian mental health laws (june, 2010)

- r v. pauchay: contrasting traditional court practices to restorative methods of justice (aug, 2010)

2012:

- relating classical conservatism to socialism, in dual opposition to liberalism (august, 2012)

- denying the antecedent: the supreme court of canada fails first-year logic (august, 2012)

- misapplying gladue: r v. quash (sept, 2012)

- interdependence v sovereignty: questioning the functional value of indigenous sovereignty in the 21st century (oct, 2012)

- the future of aboriginal self-governance: what to do with the indian act? (oct-nov, 2012)

- no compromise on abortion (nov, 2012)

- for the courts to decide: why bill c-323 is neither unconstitutional nor substantial legislation (nov, 2012) 

2013:

- natural law theory in the context of christian patriarchy (feb, 2013)

- limited liability as class privilege (feb, 2013)

- should justice be based on rules or circumstances? (mar, 2013)

- legal rights for natural objects: de-regulation by stealth (april, 2013)

2021:

- mathematical proof that vaccine passports are dumb (aug 27-29, 2021)

- how to prove that you don't have celiac using raw dna and make the hipsters cry in their gluten-free beer (dec 1, 2021)

2022:

how to connect a 7941 cisco voip phone directly to voip.ms from behind a consumer-grade nat (may 23, 2022)

why the doctrine of discovery should not be taught in law schools. like, at all. (july 28, 2022-aug 2, 2022)