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now tell us how you really feel
Life happens. But that doesn't mean we have to sit around quietly and just take it. People always know exactly where they stand with me. So here's what I really think, a list of past Martini soap box missives.
Are we raising a culture afraid to face reality?
A recent study by Associated Press and AOL found 43 percent of teens used instant messages to communicate messages that they found challenging. What does that tell us about the future of our culture?
What's happening with criminal sentencing these days? One person commits a heinous murder and gets no jail time, while another punches someone back and gets five years in prison. It smells.
Liberals draft al-Queda bill of rights
When the liberals decide that any measure designed to protect Americans is against the constitution, you gotta wonder whose side they're really on.
US Senator Dick Dubin compared American forces to the murderous regimes of Hitler and Pol Pot. With friends like these, who needs enemies?
The news media has described her husband's desire to see Terri Schiavo starve to death as his wish that she "die with dignity." Say what?
Marriage has never been and could never become a human right. So why are politicians attempting to redefine the definition of marriage around the cloak of human rights?
Our culture has been so homogenized that religious symbols have lost most of their meaning. No wonder Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of Christ" is stirring such an emotional response.
There was a time when people knew when they should answer their cell phone and when to switch it off. Today they seem oblivious to the simplest rules of cell phone etiquette. How can we fix this epidemic?
Maybe you've heard of Bill Bright. Maybe you haven't. But this humble, gentle, soft-spoken businessman has probably impacted more people in his life than all the great leaders who have swept down the river of history in the last 200 years.
Kids today. Everything is boring. It doesn't matter what you're doing, showing or teaching them. Boring, boring, boring. Surprisingly, it may be a problem of our own making.
I cried for my neighbor the week of September 11. But I saw a strength of character and a lesson for life that will forever change me. I saw the qualities of a hero.
Okay, so some people will think I'm nuts to say Hollywood is doing something right. But the fact is that over the past few years, it really has been doing something right.
To many people, photo radar and other surveillance-based forms of law enforcement sound like a good thing. That is, until you look at the legal issues that lie at the foundation of these concepts.
Do the hard thing, Dr. Stanley
Dr. Charles Stanley. An icon in the Christian community. A leader held in high regard by many throughout the world, including Spy. At least, he was until he decided to ignore the clear teachings of Scripture.
Watching the SuperBowl on television used to be as much an advertising experience as a football game. Remember those ground-breaking ads that people still talk about today? But lately something's been missing.
The biggest art heist in history
Have you noticed how few art heist movies have appeared in theaters lately? Perhaps it's no surprise, since the art world has been gradually stripped of any real art. When a filthy unmade bed becomes the exalted display in one of the world's greatest galleries, it's time to reconsider the direction art has been taking.
It might not be such a crazy idea after all. As Delta's by-election approaches, we have two choices to represent us in Victoria. One is a neophyte politician with a strong allegiance to the Liberals. The other is a bold, controversial media magnet who was previously forced to resign as premier. Perhaps we should put our personal opinions aside and think these choices through a little more carefully.
While Canada's politicians continue to gorge themselves at the public trough and burden the population with some of the highest taxes in the free world, they quietly decimate the country's tiny military defense structure, claiming it too expensive. Next on the chopping block: Canada's Snowbirds air demonstration team and Buffalo search and rescue aircraft.
What is it with Hollywood these days? Once a vibrant, creative group of people who took pride in excellence, the industry has become a seedy example of obscene laziness. Case in point: 1998's highly praised film "Shakespeare in Love."
A few thoughts on the ongoing attempts by bleeding-heart liberals to decriminalize criminal acts in the misguided hope that those practicing crime will suddenly become nice guys and girls. Funny how people are always talking about a utopian society, but nobody ever shows you one.
Whatever happened to leadership?
In the wake of the scandal involving US President Bill Clinton, many people have started asking where the leadership role models have gone. Spy wonders the same thing.
Fall 1998. Canada's CRTC, the regulatory body that oversees broadcasting (similar to the FCC in the USA, but with far more sweeping powers) pursues a desire to regulate the Internet in Canada. Scary.