Aphorism of the Day: Having a blog is like having a second dick: the more fun you have with it, the more people will think you're a wanker.

So the Globe and Mail featured yet another essay (this one by John Allemang) extolling the humanities as a kind of critical thinking factory. Apparently its no coincidence that terror suspects tend to have science and technical backgrounds.

Human brains are rationalization machines. We begin with our conclusions when we rationalize. We start with a claim...