Once again, Statistics Canada, using info generously contributed by police forces across the country, has issued this reassuring statistical commentary: “Crime stats continue to decrease, along with the severity of crimes committed.” Who’s fooling whom? How many Canadians feel safer today than last year? Or the year before that? Or twenty years before that? The death of innocents still features in the news and the ringing of bullets still echoes in the consciousness of Canadians from the…

Over the past year, news leaked out of Liberia that some politicians in that country routinely hire witch doctors to perform grisly child sacrifice rituals in hopes of gaining the approval of voodoo gods and winning electoral success in upcoming elections. As a result of this practice, many mothers keep their small children indoors ahead of political campaigns. The thought of people with consciences so seared as to steal, murder and disembowel young children and infants in hopes of power…

“Buddy, can you spare $6 million? I won’t use it to buy liquor, honest....” Chances are, you’ve been asked—at least once in your life—to “...help a guy out. I’m hungry. No, I won’t buy a bottle; I just want a sandwich. I haven’t eaten for days.” When the unhappy person standing before you reeks of alcohol, it’s easy to presume one or two things:

• This person recently had enough money to purchase alcohol in some form.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Romans 1: 22 

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me…even secular wisdom cringes at repeat occurrences of "stupid". One symptom of childishness (which is only culpable when someone is no longer a child) is the vain pursuit of happiness in all the wrong places. That is why special care must be taken to keep children away from the edge of the river, from…