Everyone has heard by now that Canada is likely to join Belgium and the Netherlands — you have to love the contrast: the extra-large and the extra-small — in making same-sex marriage legal. I think marriage is a good thing for people and society (even if writing those words does make me think of Peter […]
Canada is quite odd in some ways. In the US, a private (“independent”) school is a private school, and squeezes money out of the parents, alumni, and community via tuition and fundraisers. A public school receives per capita funding from public sources. But in Canada — at least in British Columbia — private schools get […]
On June 1 I asked Where’s Laura? in my blog. I just found her, in a magazine, part of the get caught reading campaign. And what is the First Lady “reading”? A big intellectual tome? Nope, a coffee-table picture book about the American flag. (And she’s not actually reading it, instead facing the camera with […]
Today’s New York Times has an article about feet, specifically naked feet nearly wholly exposed to view through binding sandal straps. Mmm, fetishism, anyone? Who cannot remember glimpsing naked feet and feeling somehow voyeuristic? Is there anyone out there — anyone female — who didn’t have an awakening at some point to the thought that […]
Dave Winer suggested that I was male-bashing in my blog of yesterday, which is why today I’m thinking about Israel in the European Union. Non-sequiter? Not quite. Dave’s comment got me thinking about a terrific political science course I took at UBC as an undergraduate in the early 80s. It was taught by a visiting […]
It’s been Saturday all day, and here’s a plug for doing nothing. It might be the secret of happiness and efficiency. Towards the mid-1980s, when I was a student at the University of British Columbia, I began adhering to my own idiosyncratic version of “time off.” I had these rules: no matter how many papers […]
Apropos of the denial poser (see comments section, too), a news (?gossip) item courtesy of the Vancouver Sun about Bill Clinton and a possible dalliance with the comparably much younger billionaire socialite Belinda Stronach. She’s no wallflower, and no little intern, either. He may have bitten off more than he can chew this time. I […]
Serendipity. I just came across an article by Mark Morford ( San Francisco Chronicle online) which argues that mucho presidential sex is better than sexual repression in (& by) presidents. Morford notes that during the lascivious Clinton’s presidency, the nation surged onward and upward economically, while under Bush (who “does not have sex. You just […]
There’s this wonderfully evocative song by Kate Bush, There Goes a Tenner, which includes the lyrics: “Ooh I remember, That rich windy weather, When you would carry me, Pockets floating in the breeze.” It’s ostensibly about a bank robbery, which is kind of an odd topic for a song, but Kate Bush was nothing if […]
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