Ms. Somerville surely qualifies as one of Canada's most boring public personalities.
How could it be otherwise when you have nothing to say but insist on saying it, repeatedly?
The position of people like Ms. Somerville should tell clear-thinking people something not too pleasant about our society.
She holds a sinecure at a major university, she does speeches and lectures, she gets awards (albeit from a yokel institution like Ryerson), and she has her words printed in newspapers.
But the sum total of what she has to say is the philosophical equivalent of Preston Manning's musings - well, at least Manning was in the rough-and-tumble of the political arena - so I think I'd have to say, less than the equivalent.
Ms. Somerville is preachy, scholastic in the nature of her thinking, and dull as hell.
We all think about ethics: it is part of the human condition. But there is a class of us who don't - psychopaths, narcissists, and other emotional cripples - and the blubbering of people like Ms. Somerville won't change that in the least while boring the rest of us to death.
MARGARET SOMERVILLE AT WORK IN HER CLOISTER
