Rubi-blog: why bloggers?

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omeone once conjectured that if every bon mot, aphorism, witticism and word of wisdom attributed to Winston Churchill had actually been said by Winston Churchill, then he would have needed to live at least twice as long as he did and spoken non-stop for most of his waking hours. Something similar can be said of William and Catherine Booth, the founders of The Salvation Army. In Salvationist circles they tend to be quoted extensively (at times in support of some rather dodgy practices, it needs to be said) with some of their more well-known sayings accorded almost the same reverence as Scripture. Almost. There is little doubt that much of what they are purported to have said is apocryphal. However, one quite famous assertion that can be verified as having issued from the very lips of Catherine was: “It is necessary to disturb the present in order to improve the future.”

- Meet our bloggers -

At theRubicon, we feel the need to stir things up a bit and therefore, hopefully, to create a better future by some calculated disturbance we introduced some regular blogger/columnists in September 2007. Their disturbances will appear on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, while we continue to post our print and audio selections on Tuesdays and Thursdays. One blogger is Canadian, one American, one British and one Australian. This means that there will be something new and disturbing popping up on theRubicon almost every day of the week! We would like to print a disclaimer at this point absolving theRubicon of all responsibility for the ideas and opinions that will be expressed in these blogs… but as we head-hunted and recruited each of these writers, that wouldn’t be the truth. So let the chips fall where they may.

- Meet our bloggers -

The addition of bloggers is only one of the changes and improvements planned for theRubicon as we continue to dance as fast as we can in order to keep up with your thirst for knowledge, your appetite for controversy, your love of ideas… and your short attention spans.

Improving the future,

theRubicon team

- Meet our bloggers -