Blog Feed: The Equivocator

This Blog Has Moved!

Published on 2010-02-03 17:49:00

I decided to move my blog to wordpress and purchase www.equivocator.ca. So from now on I will be posting on http://uranowski.wordpress.com/ or equivocator.ca and pretending like nothing has changed. You can also find me on twitter at www.twitter.com/ > read more

The Stigma of Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

Published on 2009-12-11 00:53:00

A few weeks ago during a conversation on the awesomeness that was the 1990s one interlocutor described their habit of frequently switching radio channels while driving as "just like ADD."Yesterday a friend sent me a link to a website that sells shirt > read more

To defederate, or not to defederate

Published on 2009-12-03 22:20:00

Here is an article the I wrote in collaboration with Semra Eylul Sevi for the last issue of the Varsity for this semester. (http://thevarsity.ca/articles/23663) This is my first ever article in the Varsity. When Michael Ignatieff and Bob Rae attended > read more

Foreign Policy Magazine Puts Michael Ignatieff On Their Top 100 Global Thinkers List

Published on 2009-11-30 02:11:00

64. Michael Ignatiefffor showing that not all academics are irrelevant.Poised to become Canadian prime minister next year, only five years after leaving Harvard University's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Ignatieff is out to prove the relevance > read more

Canada's Question for Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Will you kiss me?

Published on 2009-11-29 10:16:00

Here is the opening from the most recent episode of Saturday Night Live. This is an excellent example of political satire: Here is a clip from a recent episode of This House Has 22 Minutes. This is an example of the heavy-handed satire that now chara > read more

Lady Gaga Performing "Bad Romance" on The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Published on 2009-11-29 09:56:00

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Prime Minister Harper Wins The 2009 G.E. Followship Award!

Published on 2009-11-26 20:11:00

After repeatedly asserting, over the past weeks and months, that he would not be attending the Copenhagen Climate Conference Prime Minister Stephen Harper said today that he has changed his mind and he will now be attending the summit next month. Thi > read more

Paul Krugman on Cap-and-Trade

Published on 2009-11-25 13:42:00

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President Obama will attend climate talks in Copenhagen. Where will Stephen Harper be?

Published on 2009-11-25 11:23:00

The White House Website confirms that President Obama will in fact be attending the Climate Conference in Copenhagen next month. This gives the talks a boost of legitimacy the same way spinach gives Popeye a boost of strength. Now the Copenhagen Conf > read more

The Echo Chamber: A Tiny Play about a Big Fallacy

Published on 2009-11-24 16:15:00

By Joseph UranowskiWritten 2009 A.D.Dramatis Personae---------------------------PRAEFECTA, the consulINTERNA, a tribuneEXTERNUS, a tribuneAEQUITAS, a tribuneCAPITULUS, a tribuneScene--------Consul Praefecta and four tribunes have exited a meeting wit > read more