Insurance

March 22, 2005

It’s been a really busy few days lately. Ragged, to the point that I have no mind for complicated topics, either. But here’s a simple bit that stuck out for me: On the weekend I found myself sitting between two women — moms — while we waited for our kids to finish a master class […]

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Manchurian mating run

March 20, 2005

We rented the 2004 Manchurian Candidate remake of the 1962 original this weekend. IMDb‘s reviewers give it barely 7 stars out of 10, and since I don’t often like remakes myself I was sceptical. But this one is very good: it raises all the usual fun paranoid conspiracy issues, along with technology issues, while the […]

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Applecarts are for up-setting

March 19, 2005

A young boy was making an argument yesterday about right and wrong. He sought to dispute that right and wrong exist as such since they are determined by the perspective of whoever is doing the action. An atrocity is seen as bad (“wrong”) from the victim’s point of view, but as good (“right”) from the […]

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Get into fighting shape

March 17, 2005

Lovely twist of irony, if somewhat macabre: can this be for real? It’s actually kinda gross: Obesity could help keep Social Security solvent because people will die younger. “One of the consequences of our prediction is that Social Security does not appear to be in nearly as bad a shape as we think,” said study […]

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New pair of shoes, please

March 16, 2005

On the subject of “metablogging” and disfunction (as manifested in weblogging), this post, Steve Levy, Dave Sifry, and NZ Bear: You are Hurting Us, by Shelley Powers aka Burningbird, is simply the most important and pithy I’ve read so far. Period. It’s a good idea to read it, too, in relation to her Guys Don’t […]

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Subject and Object

March 15, 2005

The other day Chris Locke blogged about Marianna Torgovnick’s 1998 book, Primitive Passions: Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy, which sent me to my jumbled, ratty bookshelves to find Torgovnick’s previous book, Gone Primitive; Savage Intellects, Modern Lives. For general interest, and generally in support of Chris’s research, forthwith some quotes from the latter. […]

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Vive Quebec

March 11, 2005

Judging from the snippet I heard on CBC Radio tonight, the sharia law debate continues in Canada. In a brief automotive interlude, I heard As It Happens interviewers speaking to Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, Minister of International Relations and of La Francophonie in Quebec, who defended Quebec’s refusal to allow any aspect of sharia law to take […]

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Swim with the tide

March 6, 2005

I never thought that watching a video of tidal current could be interesting, but this one is. It’s on the Race Rocks website. The Race Rocks Ecological Preserve is off the southernmost tip of Vancouver Island, and it’s under the stewardship of Pearson College. The latter just announced that they have worked out a sizeable […]

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A test for Mandarin Meg

March 5, 2005

Mandarin Mandarin hack this code hack this code Wowie! Meg at Mandarin Design posted a code the other day which had several other bloggers testing it out. I tried it, too, and it didn’t work, but then Gary at TFS Reluctant did some customising, and lo!, it works here, too. I’ve never linked to Meg’s […]

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Market intervention

March 4, 2005

[*] As part of his research into the links between the New Age and the same-old-age, The CBO has a useful installment on a phenom within a phenom: the Left Behind series and Christian Fiction. As it happens, I recently read a chapter on Christian novels as a specific genre, as well as an interview […]

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