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…
In this short series on the ideologies of communism, Dry Toast started with a review of the bible of Communism, the Communist Manifesto. Today we begin our study of the quotations of Mao Tsetung, Mao's Little Red Book. It is…
In a short series on the ideologies of communism, Dry Toast starts with a review of the Communist Manifesto, reading the most salient parts and commenting as he goes. Let's take a step back in time to the early days of Marxi…
Bringing the current series of podcasts looking at politics full circle, Dry Toast ends off with an enquiry into the Us vs Them mentality so prevalent in today's politics, social media and events in general. We take a look a…
Dry Toast takes us back in time 2500 years to the time of the Athenian philosopher Plato and his critique of democracy which is actually quite prescient when we look at what he said in the light of our current world. Let's s…
Finally, Dry Toast put together the ending to the story of the Confederacy. After the battle of Gettysburg, the South continued the struggle, fighting hard against the powerful tide coming from the North. Ingenious to the en…
As history unfolds, Dry Toast does his best to try and pick the facts from the fiction. A lot of hyerbole and accusations are being hurled back and forth as various interests jockey for position. Let's see if we can sift the…
Dry Toast takes a bit of a leap of faith today as I attempt to determine the facts of whether certain aspects of wokeism are good or bad, and my evidence for these determinations. It is a different road to travel down to de…
Let's go on a trip back in time a few hundred years and look at the journey to today's woke movement. What exactly is it and how did it come to be? You may (or may not) be surprised to see its origins and what is actually be…
