Excavations


... nothing is more essential to public interest than the preservation of public liberty.

- David Hume



Thursday, January 10, 2013

Schopenhauer tweets Chief Theresa Spence and Idle No More



For if we are silent, who will speak?

 ~  Schopenhauer, Grundprobleme, Introduction to the first edition, 1840


Source: Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, preface by Václav Havel (New York: Routledge Classics, 2011), pp. 289; 679, 680.

Monday, January 7, 2013

Blog Stats for January 2013

Here are my blog statistics as recorded from May 2010 to 07 January 2013 (1700h PST)

Total all-time pageviews (to date):  12269

Pageviews  by Country

Canada          5489
US                  3683
Russia             288
Japan              220
UK                   204
Germany        185
Ukraine          138
Latvia              113
Malaysia        110
France            104
India                 63
Iran                   57

Pageviews by Posts

On Voluntary Servitude     1700 (approx.)
A Fair Country                        1034
The Rights Revolution           773
Harperland                                 557
A Secular Age                            361
The Truth about Canada       199
Two Cheers for Minority Government    192
Northern Spirits                        186
How Stephen Harper met George Orwell    142
Crowley’s Fearful Symmetry   136
Calvinism, Puritanism and Harper’s Canada   111
Montaigne on Torture                111
Ethical Oil                                        109

Please note that some figures are approximate.  Thank you.