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Gus Aquinas was a play on two theologians, St.
Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.
The Family Jackboot Party was a reference to The Family
Coalition Party, a weird "family values/anti-abortion" fringe
party that sprung up in Ontario
a number of years ago. We used to make these fake political ads for it on our comedy radio
show.
Ghengis Kabalka was a reference to a Family Coalition
Party candidate with the last name Kabalka. I forget his first name. He was
actually a University of Windsor
student and would write letters to the editor of the Windsor Star
and The Lance against abortion.
I actually had him in a critical thinking course once.
Critical thinking involves examining bad arguments and explaining why
they're based on fallacious reasoning. A lot of the course involved reading
letters to the editor, which were a rich-and-ready source of bad thinking.
During an in-class exercise, Kabalka was assigned, quite randomly, an
anti-abortion letter that trotted out all the bad arguments
anti-abortionists used. It was funny watching him having to confront these
bad arguments and actually have to pick them apart yet at the same time
trying to defend them.
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