In this final episode of our series on World War I and Canada's historic battle of Vimy Ridge, we look at the decisive battles as the tide turns against Germany in the last year of the war. We also go over the punitive Trea…
Author and researcher Dr. David Edward is my guest today. He has written numerous novels but today he discusses his in-depth research on a site he believes is indeed the lost city of Atlantis. Dry Toast thinks the evidence i…
April 9, 1917 was an historic day for Canada when its small army took Vimy Ridge, a strategic ridge that France and Britain were unable to take from Germany in several attacks over the previous 3 years. The Canadians planned…
Lance has 34 years experience working as a social worker with Child Protective Services and he shares his experiences and ideas with us today. Does the system serve children and families well? Could it be improved? How? Lanc…
Today's episode, the second in my new Uncommon Sense series, takes a look at the evidence around whether or not democracy is in danger and, if so, from where? The Uncommon Sense series mixes facts, common sense, and maybe ev…
The early months of WW I began with an astounding number of casualties, including hundreds of barbaric killings of citizens, and set the stage for the remainder of the war, at least in the western front. We look at these ear…
Today we are going to look at 7 very spooky but very true happenings. This is the first of hopefully many more periodic episodes where instead of delving deep into the facts of a situation, we mix facts with common sense to …
Today we lay out the many factors contributing to the outbreak of World War I and that caused it to be so devastating on a scale never before seen. Like a snowball rolling down a hill (warning - lots of mixed metaphors comi…
I had the distinct pleasure of being a guest on Wade Fransson's show Created In The Image of God where we discussed whether or not religion and science are compatible. Wade has had a rather amazing life spanning 7 countries,…
What more noble goal can we have in this world than to live a good and virtuous life? But what exactly is a good and virtuous life, how do we know and how do we go about living the virtuous life? Dry Toast to the rescue once…
We are living in turbulent times; politics is very divided and polarized, the news media tends to be very biased and propagandist, and discerning fact from fiction is becoming very difficult. Dry Toast to the rescue as he re…
In the final episode of our enquiry into Western legal systems, we move into the modern era to discuss legal positivism, cultural relativism and more pressing movements of our time, and their effects on our legal systems. Su…
Welcome back to part 3 of our series on Western Law. The concept of natural law, that governed justice for some 2000 years, is put under duress during the period known as the enlightenment. Many changes and new concepts emer…
Recently I had the distinct pleasure of being interviewed by Terry McMullen, host of the What's The Value podcast, where he asks his guests what their main guiding value is in life. What do you think I chose for the most imp…
On our journey through the history of our western systems of law, here in episode 2 we leave ancient Greece and Rome behind and head into medieval Europe and the long fight between monarchs and parliaments for power. For cen…
Today we embark on a journey into the fascinating world of western law and how our legal systems came about. This promises to be a fascinating trip as we journey through many pivotal moments in history and see how they contr…
In my second interview with Dr. Raszek, we venture into the rapidly developing field of DNA testing. This was a great discussion as we delved into topics on the leading edge of science and bioethics. It is a field with so mu…
Today we have an interview with Dr. Mikolaj Raszek, a biochemist and geneticist who specializes in genomic medicine based on human DNA sequencing. We discuss science, covid, immune systems and vaccination and it was a fascin…
It's over! After several episodes of laying out the details of socialist theory vs democracy and capitalist theory, Dry Toast picks the winner - and it's not exactly what you think it's going to be! So let's dig in and find …
Today, Dry Toast goes deep into the heart of the Soviet Union to take a detailed look at the economic systems of communist countries during the Soviet era, as well as a few lesser known socialist style economic projects thro…
Dry Toast moves his study of socialism versus democracy into the economic realm. We now contrast the two economic systems. In this first episode, we discuss the great thinkers of both capitalist and socialist economic though…
Dry Toast takes us through the requirements for a country to call itself democratic. We review the masterful On Democracy by Dr. Robert A Dahl to get an education on the history of democracy, the required criteria for an ide…
In this short series on the ideologies of communism, Dry Toast started with a review of the bible of Communism, the Communist Manifesto and then started an enquiry into the quotations of Mao Tsetung, Mao's Little Red Book. I…
