To worry is to be. To be is to worry.
The intensity of the debate in Canada on the level of violence in hockey fluctuates between scarcely smoldering and blindingly blazing. The latest flare-up was sparked by a recent death that resulted from injuries sustained in a hockey fight. The death is unquestionably regrettable, to say the least, but the very basis of the argument [...]
I’m not a sports fan. However, because of my many insecurities, I always worry that admitting that will reflect poorly on my masculinity. My male self-confidence is further eroded when I mention that I live about as close as you can get to the absolute center of Toronto’s gay and lesbian district and that, despite [...]
Some people call hunting a sport. I don’t understand that. As far as I’m concerned, hunting meets only three of the four criteria necessary to qualify as a sport: It must have predefined rules. Hunting does qualify as a sport under this criterion. The objective of hunting is to kill non-human animals. You aren’t allowed [...]
How much has civilization progressed since the beginning of hominid life on our planet? Rumors to the contrary notwithstanding, not very much. Despite all of the millennia of evolution, we still have people whose legal and, in many people’s eyes, perfectly respectable job is to beat the living crap out of another human being. If [...]