Venezuela: Context, Perception & Chavez

This is the fourth of fifteen articles in CDLS’ Spotlight On… series, ...

East Meets West: Culture, India & Women

This is the third of fifteen articles in CDLS’ “Spotlight On…” series, ...

Finding Truth on the Internet

I read the other day that Google only knows 8% of all ...

Monsanto is my Favourite Company

Confession… I’m an Apple fan. A diehard one at that. Not sleeping outside the store waiting for the next release, diehard, but pretty close. In my circle, almost every piece of fresh Apple news gets analyzed and anatomized, usually via iMessage on our shiny iPhones. But a recent lapse in judgement caused me to wonder: […]

A Call to Action

Hellooooooo Readers, No, I haven’t died. In fact, it was my birthday yesterday 🙂 It’s only been two weeks, but it feels like forever since I last posted. To our regular readers, I’d like to say thank you for your continued support. To our new readers I’d like to give you a warm welcome to […]

Great Expectations: The North Korean Bubble

This is the 2nd of fifteen articles in CDLS’ ‘Spotlight On…’ series Previous : Cyprus Quick disclaimer here: I didn’t mean for this article to get as long as it did. It sort of ran away from me. If you ask Colin, he will tell you that I have been dying to post an article on North Korea […]

Cyprus, Suddenly Relevant

For the next several weeks, I’m going to be doing a spotlight series where I talk about different countries and the problems they are currently facing. I may do several other articles to break it up and add some variety, but for the most part this is what I’m going to be focusing on for […]

The Unified Theory of Life (Read: Women)

Last week was a great one for CDLS, got some good numbers and minimal backlash from what were some pretty hot button topics. “You guys, I’m loving your stuff, but you know what you should talk more about, relationships!” Huh? “Yeah, y’know like giving some insight into how guys work …and stuff.” I see. Well […]

On the Papal Office, Catholicism and Religion in General

So Colin posts about abortion and I’m tackling religion. It seems we’re both breaking our own rules today. I don’t talk about religion as a rule because these conversations never seem to go well. I see no point in these conversations in general. However today, I’m crossing that line. Pope Benedict XVI (now Pope Emeritus) […]

Abortion, finally.

Hell, you knew it was coming at some point. I tried to avoid the tired topic that is abortion, but on a site like this, it almost feels like copping out. To make this interesting however, we’re going to first look at this from a different angle, and somewhere in here, I’ll give you a […]

5 interesting things I read this week

As you can probably imagine, running a social commentary blog means, reading, and lots of it. Neither of us pulls this stuff out of thin air, so thank goodness for the Internet and all its delicious content. Here’s some of the stuff I found most stimulating this week, and even though I’m working on a […]

Why do we lie?

Today I decided to take a break from writing about celebrities, politics and the economy. Even though these are some of my favourite topics, for the next few weeks there will be a moratorium on all articles concerning that (don’t hold me to that; I do go back on what I say). On to the […]

Why do we still have Black History Month?

Why do we still have Black History Month? And if anything why do we need a full month?? Let alone the coldest month of the year. Find me one Black community that celebrates winter. No seriously, I’d actually love to know. At this point I feel we need to change this to some type of […]