My son Jonah and I playing in the icy creek at a local conservation area – a scene in my forthcoming novelette, EsuM.

Time seems rarely on my side but I wanted to announce that I have full intentions of releasing my first novelette, titled EsuM, by Christmas.

The story itself begins in the New Year of 2000. That was a strange year, wasn’t it? The world entered the new millennium fearful of Y2K causing a technological meltdown

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	The life of many, many spiritual figures – from India to Egypt – are very similar to life of Jesus. Some say this proves he is fictional template. I say it shows that what Jesus really was is more real than the world itself.

Before seeing the Zeitgeist: The Movie I was already quite aware that there are countless spiritual figures who led lives very similar to Jesus – having twelve disciples, being born of a virgin, resurrecting, performing miracles, being born in poverty, etc.

The first time I read the life of the Buddha I couldn’t help but think I was reading the Gospels. And early Christian missionaries to India used to claim Krishna was a rip-off of Jesus – because his life, teachings and even his name were so similar – until historians proved Krishna lived several hundred years before Jesus.

The Zeitgeist Movement believes (yes believes… they don’t know) that manipulative powers-at-be across time and continents have been copying the same story over and over again. Sounds rather impressive for ancient times (before printing presses and the internet). And why

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A graph showing the little-talked-about Medieval Warm Period (AD 800-1300) when global temperature rose despite the lack of SUVs.

Here’s what bothers me the most about the whole global warming controversy: Anybody who challenges the accepted theory is treated as a radical extremist.

Even after hackers broke into the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England and extracted thousands of very suspicious documents suggesting that the global warming crisis is a hoax… anybody who says

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According the Zeitgeist Movement Jesus (and just about every other historical spiritual figure) was a work of fiction.

Earlier this year I watched Zeitgeist: The Movie for the first time. It presents its message in three parts:

1. That Jesus (and just about every other historical spiritual figure) was a work of fiction created to

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In his late nineties my grandfather was having trouble walking. My aunt finally convinced him to show her his legs. Horrified, she discovered he had duct taped wet towels around his calves and ankles which were blistering red and swollen.

The next day Grandpa had a room in at Toronto’s St. Joseph hospital. The doctors said his kidneys had failed. His heart was also so weak they were surprised he was still alive (no less living on his own at 98). They told him

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On Saturday, Nicole and I watched Namesake, a 2006 film about… I’m not too sure what it was about, specifically. Far too many things. I found it difficult to pinpoint what they were really trying to do with the film other than dramatize the challenges of moving from Calcutta to New York.

The film brought back many memories for me. I grew up in Brampton, Ontario, (outside of Toronto). Most of my classmates were East Indian, Pilipino, Portuguese and Italian.

Sometimes I felt like I was the foreigner

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Are these post-apocalyptic video games really preparing children for the end of the world? The Onion News Network (www.theonion.com) did a funny commentary on this very subject. They reported that while these games, set after a nuclear holocaust, do teach kids how to find and raid ammunition stores so they can shoot up zombie mutants… they really don’t instruct youths in basic doomsday survival skills. You know… how to get clean drinking water, build a shelter and hunt food

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An unforgettable story a friend told me some years ago…

A band of Iroquois natives captured a Jesuit missionary in the Ontario wilderness in the 17th century. The Jesuit expected – as was the custom with captured missionaries by this particular tribe of Indians – to be tortured for several days and then finally burnt to death.

In case you don’t know… death by fire is very slow and painful. The Jesuit wasn’t looking forward to that. Plus, a week of torture, beforehand, wasn’t much to his liking either

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Nothing gets in and nothing (and nobody) gets out – except sunlight – through the glass walls of Biosphere 2. This 3.15 acre structure more or less looks like space colony sitting in the Arizona dessert.

(In case you’re wondering, Biosphere 1 refers to the Earth’s actual ecosystem.)

The goal was to see whether human beings could survive in such a sealed structure without dying, getting deathly sick, starving, running out of oxygen or going insane

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Despair Inc. released a daring new “de-motivational” poster for the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. It features Buzz Aldrin (I assume) saluting the camera beside an American flag with the landing equipment to his left. Underneath the image are the words:

“Accomplishments: You Can Fool All of the People All of the Time If Your Effects Budget is Large Enough.”

I couldn’t believe they did it

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