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[11 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 5 views]

In an attempt to ‘equitize’ this web site (something many execs would be happy) I’d like to introduce our new guest video-blogger: Comrade Costeloe. Ironic that such a radical had to come to a capitalist to beg a web-domain off of but that is the way of the world.
Enjoy Comrade Costeloe at his own site: www.comrade.geoffcosteloe.com!
If you like the content please vote in the VFM! It takes a lot of work to put out a 5 minute video like that!

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[10 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 34 views]

Many of the other media outlets have done a fantastic job of bringing you the latest on the news on the elections. I’ve yet to see some broader commentary on the races so I thought I would give some of that. I’m not going to make predictions or declare support but I’d like to lay out some broad themes I think that we will see, some I think are good, some not so much.
Increased Student Interest?
Regardless of which side of ‘The Debacle’ a student found …

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[11 Dec 2009 | No Comment | 68 views]
Some Papers I Wrote

I thought I would be an egotistical bastard and post up some papers I wrote this year for one of my all time favorite classes: POLI 310 – Parliament and Party: The Strategy of Politics. If you are in poli-sci you must take this course. I really liked writing the papers as a lot of the game theory concepts are parallel to evolutionary biology models.
Charles Tupper: A Measure of Patience
Stephen Harper: A James Dean for the 21st Century (based of of this editorial by Andrew Steele)
Comments and debate on them …