Tim Moen

I really love art. I see art as not only the sigh of the oppressed creature, but also the also the song of the ecstatic creature and everything in between. As an owner in Epic Productions I produce art. When I'm home and feel inspired I play piano, guitar and sing...this is art, at least to me it is and in the end that's all that really matters. As a lover of art I was alarmed when I read a FaceBook post about the axe falling on the VPA program at Keyano College. Especially alarming were the rumors of ill treatment towards those that lost their jobs. Long time staffers being given 15 minutes to clear out and then being escorted out by security certainly doesn't paint a very flattering picture of Keyano College administration. Then came a response from Keyano that seems all kinds of reasonable and flatly denies the whole "15 minutes" rumors and frames the situation in a different light. More responses come from critics refuting Keyano's framing of the situati...

Here's a critical thinking question: Would reducing the speed limit to 25 km/hr on Hwy 63 and enforcing the shit out of that speed limit with zero tolerance lead to a safer highway? I mean if its true that "Speed Kills" and "We Need More Enforcement" then it should follow that reducing the speed to near parking lot speeds and strictly enforcing this rule would lead to a safer highway right? Wrong, the data indicates that the road would actually become much more dangerous. The reason that setting and enforcing artificially low speed limits is unsafe is because it is not congruent with rational principles. It fails to recognize the fact that most people have reasonable and prudent judgment, do not want to crash, and want to reach their destination in the shortest time possible. This is why every single driver is guilty of breaking speed limits, because they understand that they can usually safely drive faster than the speed limit and reach their destination fa...

I have come to have really mixed feelings about competitive team sports. My daughter just played host team to the Alberta Provincial Ringette Tournament. This should be a fantastic opportunity to engage in play and wellness and get to know girls with similar interests from around the province and establish some connections. This I am all for and this is why I support my daughter playing Ringette...but this is NOT what I witness. Play is a human need and sports should fulfill this. The purpose of sport should be to create an environment of play based on a completely meaningless and absurd task like putting a ball in a net, the human need isn't fulfilled by putting the ball into the net, its fulfilled by engaging in play...absurdity combined with physicality is play. Why is it do you think that people are so ecstatic when a team they identify with does better at this than another? Why is it that the players happiness really seems to hinge on whether they do...

When a 10 year old boy is anally raped by an important sports figure its called 'molestation' by the media. Why is that? You never hear of an adult who experienced forcible penetration as having been molested...that would sound ridiculous...they were raped. It's a violent act perpetrated by an evil person, not a sanitized and unfortunate experience that the term 'molestation' conjures. This purposeful choice of words should tell us something about the media's message which is essentially this, "Its unfortunate what happened to these kids but not as horrible as Sandusky's betrayal of the fans." The Penn State sports historian in this video confirms this at 2:40 of this video, expressing his anger not at the fact that Sandusky destroyed children's lives but rather that he destroyed Penn States reputation.(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/45285321#45285321 )  No wonder the coverup goes up and down the hierarchy of this sporting institut...

Two women are standing in line for hours in 1983 Soviet Russia waiting for their loaf of stale bread. One woman says, "We are blessed that the government provides us with our daily bread, could you imagine living in America where the government doesn't even provide them with bread? Thank God for our Soviet hero Lenin!" When I listen to people give thanks for our Canadian health care system and praise its founder Tommy Douglas I think of the long line and the stale bread that all of us Canadians have universal access to. This is the paradigm most of us Canadians are stuck in. Just as Soviets couldn't imagine a world where the government wasn't providing stale bread and ill-fitting shoes, we can't imagine a world where the government doesn't provide us with healthcare. Mark Steyn points out, "A citizen of an advanced democracy expects to be able to choose from dozens of different breakfast cereals...and hundreds of movies...but when it comes t...