• Douglas James Edgar Barnes

• Born January 3rd, 1969 in Windsor, Ontario

• Grew up in Kingsville, Ontario and summers on Lake Muskoka

• Studied physics at the University of Windsor where I learned dangerous things like logic, thinking and challenging dogma (Hey, that's what science is). I wasn't very good at physics because of my math but somehow my math grades were pretty good. Go figure.

• Started Aikido in 1990

• Moved to Japan to study Aikido in 1992

• Attained my first and second degree black belts at the Yoshinkan Dojo in Tokyo, last trained in 1996

• Hobbies: rock climbing, canoeing and canoe trips, fishing.
  
  
• Other interests: studying economics (ie. debunking), politics and ecology.
  

• Lead singer and lyricist for a political punk rock group (in the works)
  
  
  I was always a bit of a weird one, I'll admit it. I knew my cardinal directions (at all times) by the age of 4 but I didn't know my left and right. One day my kindergarten teacher tried to teach me so she turned her back to me so that my left and her left were on the same side. "When I face this way, this is my left," she said, waving her left hand. I noticed that she was facing north. I had to stop and think which way north was whenever I wanted to know my left and right from then on until I was 8!
  
  I also learned to swim underwater before I could swim on the surface. I used to barrel under water then pop up for a breath then dive under again to get away from that dangerous surface.
  
  I've had a knack for noticing things, too. I would astound my campmates at summer camp by noticing all sorts of wonderful animals that they completely missed. I drive my wife nuts now by pointing out stuff to her here and telling her how the plants and animals lead their lives here and it's her country. I'm always amazed at the stuff people miss.

News of the Evil:
Biotech companies to farmers: "Buy our products or we'll sue your ass!"