Through a glass darkly

November 10, 2003

Last night was the 65th anniversary of Kristallnacht. Victoria’s Jewish community had a special commemorative event at the main synagogue (at Blanshard & Pandora). Perhaps I should have made the effort, but I didn’t go because I’m so lazy about evening events. It’s nearly impossible to pry me out of my house after dark, I […]

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Schooling rant

November 9, 2003

Via Alas, a Blog I came to this post by Timothy Burke, who describes taking his 3-year old daughter to a museum. The problems that he describes, caused by the behaviour of some of the older children visiting the museum, strike me as deriving from factory school segregation, or rather: from the experienced mis-fit caused […]

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The servants stole the fishforks

November 8, 2003

The breaking scandal over the Royals in the UK might be turned into a morality play, but I think that it’s really a management question. To me, the scenario that derives from the innuendo thus far is that Prince Charles was on the receiving end (so to speak) of sexual services provided by Michael Fawcett, […]

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Duct coffee fluff piece

November 7, 2003

I would not be able to have my morning coffee if it weren’t for duct tape. Curious? Ok, here’s the story: I have a really cool coffee maker that grinds the beans and then makes filtered coffee, all without my having to intervene. Except for initial ministrations of duct tape, that is. The machine is […]

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Safety catch not on

November 6, 2003

Via Alternet‘s sidebar, the link to this picture: Alternet’s caption, via Lakshmi on The Media Mix: All boys anti-abortion club The publicity photo on the White House website of George Bush signing the late-term abortion ban says all we need to know about who is making decisions about women’s bodies. See Ma, no women! Added […]

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Butter is better

November 5, 2003

Gee, what a load of dubious matter. I just took one of those Myer-Briggs Tests, and came out an INFP — that’s Introverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving type. I can’t believe people would be so bereft of any sense of their own personality as to give credence to this stuff. Yet it shows up on blogs […]

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I Green Eye

November 5, 2003

Hey, Stu (of Nov.4): no blue eyes on this mongrel! The only blue jeans I’m expressing are the ones I’m wearing, dearie….

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And it’s 1, 2, 3, …

November 4, 2003

CBC Radio had an interview with the head of the American Selective Service System this morning — I caught only 2/3 of it, but gathered there was talk of starting up the draft again in the U.S. The Selective Services guy said that they hadn’t yet had any directives, but …. And no, they wouldn’t […]

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“Even the Catholics know that they can’t all be popes”

November 3, 2003

An interview with the ghost of Karl Marx in Prospect Magazine: Karl Marx: All this I analysed. All this I deconstructed (yes, I keep up with modern charlatans). The result: the first theory of fascism. So don’t tell me I have ever been under any illusion about the people. I know how to look at […]

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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition…

November 3, 2003

I went to a party the other night, Pats, and I thought I looked so gorgeous, so cool, darling, and I just flirted and was loud and cool all night, darling, yeah, I was Kathleen Turner and Marisa Berenson. I came home, I looked in the mirror, …and …I was entirely annihilated. My hair had […]

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