Friday, September 4, 2026
My Story So, here is my story, I have no earthy college degrees, a couple of French courses short. I have been a very good golfer, basketball player, small town boy, six time winner of greased pig contest, big city man, businessman, interstate highway drifter, high and low plains America adventurer, self-indulgent, distant father, auto-didactic, Ivy Leaguer, scholar, student, lost soul, historian, art historian, musicologist, poet, poetry aficionado, business writer, economist, “Blizzard of One” broadband “David” to high speed Internet “Goliaths,” Internet Open Access champion, practical environmentalist, energy efficiency expert, member of Chicago Climate Exchange, 3-times matrimony loser, lobbyist, technology theorist, Bakken Basin podcaster, energy practical, political advocate pain in the ass and all around gadfly simply… because I was self-appointed. It's so much easier, now that I confessed. Steve Heins

My Recent Posts

Member Posts

Just Turn Them On, Dummy

0
**A driving light rant** Dusk on a Calgary arterial. That grey half-hour where the sky still has some light in it but the road doesn't....

The Wound That Won’t Close

0
Four years on, the courts have ruled, the money is gone, and not one person has answered for any of it. By Bruce Scholl — Unscrew...

From Pots and Pans to the Pile-On,

0
The History and Benefits of Ridicule, Shame, and the Public-Square Trial We never stopped shaming people. We just changed venues. Walk through any medieval market town...

The Balls to Say It

0
Drew Barrymore praised Sydney Sweeney's bravery with the most masculine compliment she could find. Nobody blinked. That's the whole story. By Unscrew the News ...

The Decisive Man: Reclaiming the Instinct to Act

0
There is a moment in every crisis where someone has to step forward. Not because they have all the answers, but because waiting is...

THE COURAGE TO SPEAK

0
The White Rose, the Long Story of Alberta, and the People Who Refuse to Be Quiet By Bruce Scholl Unscrew the News History has a way of...

Bread & Circuses: The Oldest Trick in the Book

0
The phrase "bread and circuses" comes from the Roman poet and satirist Juvenal, writing around 100 AD in his Satires. He observed that the...

The Individual vs. the Tribe

1
How tribal multiculturalism fails freedom and destroys our countries. https://fast.visegrad24.com/articles/the-individual-vs-the-tribe

The Great Canadian Split: Can the Federation Hold?

1
After generations of inter-regional tensions, Western Canadian provinces are considering independence. https://fast.visegrad24.com/articles/the-great-canadian-split-can-the-federation-hold

Now Is Alberta’s Time

0
A reflection on inheritance, freedom, and why Alberta’s referendum effort matters now.  Alberta’s push toward a referendum is not only a political tactic—it is a...

BIG Exclusives

AI ethics in practice: real dilemmas, real decisions

Artificial intelligence has no shortage of ethical principles. Fairness, transparency, accountability, privacy, human oversight and explainability now appear in corporate policies, government frameworks, and...

The sum of all fears – choosing an optimistic path amid widespread chaos

On “eclipse day”, I found myself compelled to write about a confounding question; how many existential crises does it take? It might sound like...