If Public Porn Goes, then the Pulpit Should Follow

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By Jason Menard

If a group of anti-porn crusaders convince the City of London that it can’t have sex, then they better make sure that religion joins it on the outside of the city limits, looking in.

On the agenda for today’s meeting of the city’s community and neighbourhoods committee is a presentation from a group that would like to see the City ban pornography industry-sponsored events from City-owned properties.

Here’s hoping this group was listened to respectfully, thanked for their opinion, and then wholeheartedly ignored. Simply put, government should in no way be making business decisions based upon someone’s sense of morality.  Continue reading →

Freedom Debate Questions Internet’s Role – a Right or a Really Handy Tool?

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By Jason Menard,

In just a few short years, the Internet has become an integral part of our lives – so much so that some of us wouldn’t know what to do without it. But in taking for granted the value of the Internet, have we also taken for granted that the Internet is something that we all have the right to access?

That debate is occurring at this very moment on two fronts: in England where there’s a movement to implement measures that would allow the government to effectively block certain people’s access to social media (specifically suspected rioters) during an emergency; and in the United States, where the San Francisco transit authority shut down wireless networks to try to minimize potential violence following a fatal shooting by one of its officers. Continue reading →

Anonymous Wasting Potential, Power Through Collateral Damage of Innocents

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By Jason Menard

For an organization whose name reflects its desire to remain unidentified by the masses, Anonymous certainly seems to have no problem compromising the anonymity of the very people whose support it should be coveting. It’s not just the image of Guy Fawkes that Anonymous has assumed to represent itself — it’s also Fawkes’ disregard for the value of innocent bystanders.

Through their behaviour, Anonymous that it is far from the altruistic defenders of the Internet they’d like you to believe. Instead, they’re little more than extremely smart cyber bullies who think nothing of the collateral damage caused by their hacktivism. Continue reading →

Much Adu About Nothing

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By Jason MenardFormer soccer wunderkind Freddy Adu signed yesterday with the Philadelphia Union, marking his return to professional soccer on North American soil. And the fact that this story was relegated to afterthought status on noted sports Web site SI.com reveals everything you need to know about the sad state of soccer on this side of the Atlantic.

Six years ago, Adu debuted for the United States’ national team playing an international friendly for the squad against Canada. At the time, Adu was supposed to be the future of North American soccer. The truth is that he is — only not in the way everyone thought that future would play out. Continue reading →

Women’s Rogers Cup Double Faults with Beauty Focus

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By Jason Menard

Anyone who has had the chance to watch women’s sports know that it is serious stuff. But the way the games are marketed, it’s hard to take the game seriously. And that will remain the status quo as long as those responsible for promoting the games focus on pulchritude instead of power, precision, and play.

The Rogers Cup tennis tournament is the latest example of what’s wrong with the marketing of women’s sports. Continue reading →