This is for all the cat lovers out there — you’ll enjoy this: Margaret Atwood’s contribution (online!) to the current issue of Brick, a story called Our cat goes to heaven. Yes, balance is so important…
What a long, tiring day. What a short, exhausting weekend. Can I have the weekend over again before Monday starts, please? How about some humour? I need a laugh. Jim Harrison wrote the Summer 2003 “Eat or Die” food column in Brick. I don’t know if the column is online, but basically, it’s about Harrison’s […]
Ok, I know it’s an utter waste of my time and yours, but months ago I bookmarked a caricature of Hitler that I found online, which tonight (because I happened to be going through my bookmarks) I’m going to foist on these pages. I don’t remember how I got to this link, but it’s on […]
I was googling for information on Gwynne Dyer, who I heard on CBC today, and came across an altbuzz essay, posted last July, Remodeling Protest by Jerry George. The article makes several intriguing observations: We have to remodel protest to reflect the grim reality of the present. Corruption is massive and global, as well as […]
People like to say, “trust your instincts,” and I suppose it’s good enough advice, but I have occasionally acted on principle against mine. My instincts tell me to be a “nice,” accomodating female because that’s the surest way to preserve a sense of safety. As soon as I’m not “nice,” the warning lights start flashing: […]
What do we have in common? Dutch filmmaker and writer Theo van Gogh was murdered in Amsterdam on Nov.2 by a Muslim fundamentalist who didn’t like how van Gogh depicted the treatment women under Islam in his film Submission. Within days of the film’s August airing on Dutch television, van Gogh received death threats and […]
John Cavanagh, director of the Institute for Policy Studies, just sent around the following encouraging email to subscribers. I hope he doesn’t mind, but I’m taking the liberty to quote it here in full. (Emphases added by me): Dear IPS friends, My colleagues at IPS and I have been meeting for weeks with allies around […]
I know a Canadian school administrator here in Victoria, very intelligent, who has dual US-Canadian citizenship through his American mother, and who generally supports Bush. (He’s funny that way, I guess.) A few weeks ago he left me dumbstruck when he said that he thought the US was a theocracy like Iran. I’m an atheist […]
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