BC branded, and other follies

October 19, 2003

Dawn Paley of the sparklin weblog has put a succinct article she recently wrote online, outlining the BC Liberals’ agenda and its effects. Although I live in a city and almost never venture into the wild, I found these facts the most telling: Believe BC, a high budget advertising campaign initiated by the BC Liberals […]

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Mergers

October 17, 2003

One of Canada’s real conservatives is screaming mad about the just-announced merger between the so-called Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance (…for frontal lobotomy & intolerance in the name of rah-rah capitalism & generalized homophobia….). David Orchard, who still clings to an increasingly archaic meaning of the word conserve – ative, is worried, and I […]

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Gentlemen? Meet the “bitch from Calgary”

October 17, 2003

She takes on Leo Strauss, one of the brilliant Ernst Cassirer‘s most famous students. See this Adbusters article, which presents a graphical map of Strauss’s current influence. Then don’t miss Danny Postel’s interview with Shadia Drury (the very excellent b. of C.) in the current Open Democracy: On this perverse view of the world, if […]

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What a scream

October 16, 2003

I’ve been mentally AWOL and haven’t posted, instead getting myself all bent out of shape over a few of things that made me think about other things that … & so on, loop-de-loop. Today I’m spending the day in bed because I woke up very badly this morning. It feels as though my blood pressure […]

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Civilized people

October 13, 2003

Please read Two Civilized Men Among the Barbarians by Glen Ford and Peter Gamble as soon as possible. It’s in AlterNet and originally appeared in The Black Commentator. It’s brilliant. The authors argue that Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton are the only two Democratic presidential candidates willing to talk like civilized people. Two excerpts: Rev. […]

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For Not-Columbus day

October 13, 2003

Chris Locke recently posted a report about his participation at BloggerCon: I was concurrently delivering a short, succinct lecture about how the indigenous peoples of Mexico welcomed the Spanish Conquistadors, and saying this was a pretty fair metaphor, I thought, for how the entire thrust of BloggerCon — which was celebrating its own success in […]

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Susan Sontag, without Coats

October 12, 2003

Susan Sontag was honoured today in Frankfurt’s Paulskirche with the Peace Prize, established in 1950 by the Boersenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (association of German book trade). The Boersenverein‘s lineage dates back to booksellers’ trade fairs set up in Leipzig in 1792; it was formally established in 1825. Since 1950, the prize — valued at EURO […]

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Santa’s hot, Canada’s cool, and so on

October 11, 2003

It appears that Santa and all his kin drowned when his abode fell into the sea: the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, the largest ice shelf in the Arctic, broke up in September and its finger-shaped North Pole section simply disappeared. No doubt many fundamentalists rejoice at this news since Santa was just a heathen hold-over […]

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Here and now

October 11, 2003

I finished Sputnik Sweetheart a few days ago, and should really read some of Haruki Murakami’s other novels (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, eg.). Anyone else read Sputnik? It’s beautifully written, a compelling story with an odd, inconclusive ending, a kind of portrait of the artist as a young woman. She goes missing because she learned […]

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A wabbit, a wabbit!

October 8, 2003

If you commented here recently and I haven’t replied, I plan to get to it today — one or two new friends to read, say something back, and so on. Just a little later in the day, though. Right now I’ve cotton balls for brains.

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