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The reason this blog exists is that I needed a larger forum to express my views and opine about the issues (from a progressive left of centre point of view) that matter to me . I reside in Alberta and feel that it is necessary to have a forum to counter the general vapidity that exudes from this province. Posts will cover many topics that important to me including Politics, Science and Medicine. It is my intention to establish another bastion of rationality (well at least in theory) on the web to combat the tide of crazy batshite tomfoolery that is rising on the Internet. OH, and I’d like to have some debates and fun along the way; please feel free to join me and express your opinion and add to the conversations.
The Arbourist.
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December 15, 2013 at 8:56 pm
Matthew Chiglinsky
Left of centre? That means you’re a sociopath with no real morals, right?
Crazy batshite tomfoolery? Another arrogant fool who thinks she has all the answers to life?
Science is not philosophy. Medicine cannot always heal the sick. Asking questions is better than giving answers.
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December 15, 2013 at 9:35 pm
The Arbourist
@Matthew
Hi Matthew, glad you could stop by.
That is not typically what left of centre means, but I think that you’re not really here for a nice rational discussion of ethics or politics (left or right) at the moment.
That was demonstrated in your post, and then enumerated here.
Never claimed that, just calling the out the stupid when it rears its ugly head.
Good. We’d still be fapping around in the Dark Ages if we favored philosophy over science.
And word-salad is your friend?
Thanks for stopping by Matthew.
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December 15, 2013 at 11:55 pm
Matthew Chiglinsky
Look. Here’s something we can agree on. This girl offends me as an anarchist. Anarchism intersects with feminism at certain points, you know?
“Basically what I mean why submission is a woman submits to the man she is in a relationship with so he can properly care for her. She sees he has a natural role as a leader and doesn’t undermine that. ‘Big decisions’ should be made by the husband. For instance if they were to move somewhere, whether or not they move is up to the husband to decide. He should seek his wife’s opinion on the matter though. The final decision is up to the husband, but a good husband takes his wife’s thoughts into consideration. If he disagrees with her then she needs to respect him and his authority.”
http://simplesouthernspirit.wordpress.com/2013/12/09/submission/
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December 16, 2013 at 12:01 am
The Arbourist
@Matthew
The dominant/submissive binary that runs through the article is a pale reflection of the patriarchal gender binary that informs many aspects of our society. I’m not a big fan of the gender binary or the idea that somehow one gender should be typecast into a particular role.
So, yes we can agree on this point.
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December 16, 2013 at 9:41 am
labrys
Wow….sits down with coffee and biscotti. I think I’ll just watch…
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January 11, 2014 at 8:33 pm
Bastet
“Basically what I mean why submission is a woman submits to the man she is in a relationship with so he can properly care for her. She sees he has a natural role as a leader and doesn’t undermine that. ‘Big decisions’ should be made by the husband. For instance if they were to move somewhere, whether or not they move is up to the husband to decide. He should seek his wife’s opinion on the matter though. The final decision is up to the husband, but a good husband takes his wife’s thoughts into consideration. If he disagrees with her then she needs to respect him and his authority.”
OMG! I just can’t stop laughing.
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January 12, 2014 at 8:23 am
The Arbourist
@Bastet
For more hilarity take a peek at Matthew’s blog, the knollej and wizdum run fast and thicke there. :)
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August 6, 2014 at 9:13 pm
VR Kaine
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-08-06.html#read_more
Hey Arb – an article on “Christian Narcissm” – was interested in your take on it, if you’d care to indulge. :)
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August 7, 2014 at 11:41 am
The Arbourist
@Vern
I’ll go take a peek, as the title has piqued my interest.
Thanks Vern.
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August 9, 2014 at 8:39 am
The Arbourist
@Vern
Having read the article I’m not sure what to say. Slamming doctors for following the Hippocratic oath seems like a hard position to defend.
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August 10, 2014 at 7:18 am
VR Kaine
“Slamming doctors for following the Hippocratic oath seems like a hard position to defend”.
I think that misses the point and wasn’t what Coulter was challenging.
I think she was challenging why these people have to head off to such sensational locations abroad when there’s so much “healing the sick” that could be done at home. (i.e. her comment: “But serving the needy in some deadbeat town in Texas wouldn’t have been “heroic.”)
Yet in her newest column she claims that doctors here don’t want to be called “homophobes, racists, sexists and bigots” so that’s why they head to third world countries, so who knows.
Like she does with some of her political writing, I think she could have gone a lot deeper into the “hypocritical/narcissistic” angle but think she went all crazy before she ever got there.
Thought the title might be interesting to you as well, but after reading her follow-up I’d rather chalk this up as “a curious start that ended up nowhere.” ;)
Hope things have been well.
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September 14, 2014 at 12:17 pm
Deb
Thanks for coming by my blog. I hope that you will stop by again.
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September 14, 2014 at 12:35 pm
The Arbourist
My pleasure. Thank you for hosting such an interesting blog.
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December 30, 2014 at 3:30 pm
robert browning
This health care talk smells of right wing goose chase. The AMA controls the output of doctors; Texas should have reasonable access to care but 3rd world countries sometimes get overwhelmed. Most doctors motivations probably begin w greed/money/ security but who cares if they do the job- they are just skilled technicians. But good on those who sacrafice for the ones in need.
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April 14, 2015 at 8:37 pm
VR Kaine
Arb!
Check this out – “Business experiments with $70k minimum wage.” :)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/business/owner-of-gravity-payments-a-credit-card-processor-is-setting-a-new-minimum-wage-70000-a-year.html
I may surprise you with my view on this? I’m actually all for this because 1) the CEO wasn’t forced by government or someone else, and 2) the CEO wasn’t guilted by lefties into offering the wage. He was influenced by an article on Happiness.
In addition to this, my hope here is that the company will benefit from the great press on this and will be further supported by the market, leading to an increase in sales and perhaps disrupting widely held beliefs on labor practices, much as Netflix and Zappos have done re: hiring and paying top wages.
Ultimately, my hope is that all this would lead to an actual increase in sales as corporate values are aligned, and increase in productivity, and an increase in talent pool plus retention as good people at other companies would want to work for his, and his already good people would be far more willing and able to stay.
Now this wouldn’t/couldn’t happen if the company was publicly traded, but since it’s a private company I think it’s both a ballsy and smart move that I hope will pay off.
Hope to hear your thoughts :)
VRK
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April 18, 2015 at 11:18 am
The Arbourist
@Vern
Fascinating stuff.
A drop in the ocean so to speak, but hopefully the company continues to prosper and turn heads. Nothing like a working, profitable example of equality to begin to affect change.
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April 20, 2015 at 7:20 pm
VR Kaine
I love it when we agree, Arb. :) You may recall me awhile back saying how I describe to Drucker’s version of ethics when it comes to pay – a CEO shouldn’t make more than 20x his lowest-paid employee? Still agree with that today.
Also, I’m into the “Happiness” thing (i.e. positive psychology research) a fair bit and am curious as to the productivity uptick this will produce. Some in my OD circles say it will be temporary, but they’re likely basing that on research a generation ago where things like Wikipedia would have been unheard of. The research on positive psychology is looking quite promising and seems to be penetrating the corporate world quite well, especially with these young entrepreneurs doing away with some of the old canards about pay. (Example: Tony Tsiegh of Zappos doesn’t buy into the “we pay competitive wages” crap. To him, if you say your people are your greatest resources then pay them as such.)
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July 10, 2015 at 7:36 am
VR Kaine
The pope and Arb agree!!!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/the-pope/11730371/Pope-calls-for-an-end-to-the-murders-of-Christians-in-the-Middle-East-and-beyond.html
Title: Pope calls unfettered capitalism ‘the dung of the devil’
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July 11, 2015 at 7:39 am
The Arbourist
@Vern
You know the world isn’t right when the Pope and I start seeing eye to eye.
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January 24, 2016 at 5:02 am
Anti Cuck
Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.
The Netherlands and Belgium are just as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and “assimilating” with them.
Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.
What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?
How long would it take anyone to realize I’m not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?
And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn’t object to this?
But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.
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January 24, 2016 at 7:45 am
The Arbourist
@Anti-Cuck
Feel better?
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October 21, 2016 at 11:05 am
Karla Gjini
really glad I found your blog.. I’ve only been able to find like 3 radical feminists or allies in Alberta so far haha
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October 21, 2016 at 11:09 am
The Arbourist
@Karla Gjini
Thank you. :)
Well it is Alberta, we’re not exactly known as a hub of useful progressive thought.
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July 14, 2017 at 11:55 am
Sam Rosenbalm
@ Anti Cuck
Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.
Who says this? Who has said any of the alleged nonsense you stated? You say everybody – well then it should be easy to show me one person.
But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
No, you’re called crazy for saying there is a genocide against white people. The reason you’re called a nazi is because of what you want to do about it.
By the way, having decedents with a different skin tone isn’t genocide, and regardless, no one is forcing white people to not have white decedents. Furthermore, you yourself actually discredit the concept of whiteness yourself, seeing as how the very existence of European/European American posterity is directly linked to whiteness retained. The PEOPLE part of “white people” isn’t what matters to you and your kind – it’s the WHITE part.
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July 14, 2017 at 12:00 pm
Sam Rosenbalm
*descendants
i really need to proof read
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October 10, 2020 at 2:55 pm
tnt666
Dear Arbourist. You were my first favourite blog and through the years, even though spheres of interest of widened, you remain one of my favourites. I am visiting Alberta for the first time in 20 years. Would love to meet! is there any way?
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October 10, 2020 at 3:39 pm
The Arbourist
That would be nice. Do you Twitter? You can DM me @TheArbourist there, if that works?
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October 12, 2020 at 1:40 am
tnt666
done.
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June 13, 2021 at 6:18 pm
Michelle
Hi I’m new to your blog and just read The RPOJ – The Inherent Misogyny of “Woke” Inclusivity and your responses to the comments. Wow. You are fantastic!
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June 13, 2021 at 7:13 pm
The Arbourist
Well thank you Michelle, I hope you find your time here stimulating and challenging. I’m afraid posting will be sporadic until the end of June, but should get better come July.
Thanks for stopping by. 😀
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