It’s Friday, no big blog today. I made pizza from scratch and then settled down to a rented DVD, Catch Me If You Can, which could be interpreted as every parent-of-an-exceptionally-gifted-kid’s nightmare, except that it has a happy end. Frank Abagnale, an obviously highly able individual, typically has the emotional resonances proper to people of […]
It’s difficult for me even to begin a post about someone like Ernst Zundel, but a friend of mine local man, Gregory Hartnell, received an anonymous and threatening letter yesterday after speaking out publicly against Mr. Zundel, and it’s of course impossible to let the matter get swept under the rug. He took the letter […]
I’m not sure that I can really sort this matter out, but here are two quotes that seem to represent two possibly irreconcilable views on art. I’ll post them here for the reader to ponder. Maybe I’ll be inspired enough to discuss them myself, later. First, Artropolis, an exhibition of contemporary art that opened in […]
I had to decide between Art and Food for my daily blog, and opted for the four-letter word. Art has to wait till tomorrow. By now every news hound in North America has heard that the first case of mad cow disease turned up in Alberta, which again raises the whole issue of industrial agriculture. […]
I’m a little slow on the uptake sometimes, and wasn’t quite able to feel the pain of frustration over the exchanges regarding googlewashing and the problem of newspaper articles disappearing off the face of the internet, even if I understood it theoretically. But I get it now. Here’s why: someone asked me if I had […]
In case anyone has noticed, I have two local Victoria bloggers on my links bar at right, Davin and Julie. I don’t know them; I put their links there because, first, they have such great photos on their sites, and second, I wanted to link to some local cyberspace. In that same spirit, I’m really […]
Betsy Devine has some funny & scathing commentary on George Bush’s famous flight-suit photo-op. I have to admit that I missed most of this, pictorially speaking, but the picture on her site …fills in the gap. It’s too bad that Rowan Atkinson’s Russian codpiece (“it scares the clergy”) moment in Black Adder isn’t available as […]
On the subject of where Iraqi women are in that country’s reconstruction, go to this Christian Science Monitor article by Laura Liswood, Find a role for women in rebuilding Iraq. (See also my May 6 blog entry for link to Michele Landsberg’s article, Iraqi women are conspicuous by their absence, and the AlterNet story, Female […]
Apropos of my post on May 12, where I admitted to being ignorant of Dostoyevsky’s work, I think I might have to pick up the Grand Inquisitor after all. My children’s social studies curriculum (courtesy of S.I.D.E.S. — a great place!) asks them to find information “from books and/or the Internet, [to] discover what Socrates’ […]
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