malalai joya, noam chomsky, afghanistan, and peace
This video of Malalai Joya and Noam Chomsky speaking in Boston is from March of this year, but sadly, is every bit as relevant today. Chomsky’s analysis of the situation…
This video of Malalai Joya and Noam Chomsky speaking in Boston is from March of this year, but sadly, is every bit as relevant today. Chomsky’s analysis of the situation…
Highlights so far are a nice new coat from Columbia Sports Wear and a wool duffle-coat thingy from T. Hilfiger. Still a few gift cards to come! May my readers…
Hope everyone has a great holiday season:
Look, I’ve got nothing against the guy. He’s got a pleasant enough voice, he knows how to use it and he seems like a good and generous person. I could…
I’ve finally discovered why National Post “columnist” Lawrence Solomon is such an avid climate change denialist: he’s also and more important, a morally stunted bigot. That’s the only conclusion that…
Back to blogging after Christmas Day, its breakfast and its evening feast with the warmth of family and friends. I wish you all, dear readers, commenters and Tweeters, the same…
The topic of an additional stop for Amtrak trains between Vancouver and Bellingham, WA has finally caught the attention of local media. The need has existed for a long time.…
Mallory got to open a present tonight. Think she looks excited? She was pretty keen on going to bed, too. Sooner she sleeps, sooner Christmas comes. There are probably a…
It’s the final round of voting at this year’s Canadian Blog Awards, and thanks to readers like you, Slap Upside the Head is one of the five finalists! It’s not…
J. R. Carpenter. Entre Ville. as appeared in Four Minutes to Midnight A text originally published in edition twelve of Four Minutes to Midnight, launched in November at Expozine in…
As the International Space Station orbits Earth, it snaps images from a still camera affixed to its underside. String them together, and you get views of terrestrial phenomena as you’ve…
Columnist says cable has had a great year, and media giants like Time Warner and News Corporation continue to find plenty of profits.
Crappy weekend, everyone! Well, well…the holidaze is upon us. Eggnog ad nauseam, and enough turkey to put an entire army to sleep. And cranberries to wash all the gunk out…
Arianna Huffington: At a recent dinner, a group of us began talking about the huge chasm between the record profits of Wall Street banks and America’s struggling Main Street banks…
A 73-year-old man hired as a shopping mall Santa Claus has been arrested in Regina for being drunk in public. The man was escorted out of a downtown mall Friday.Santa…
For anyone surprised by Harper’s moves and plans now that he has a majority, it is enlightening to read this speech our current PM made when he was VP of…
One of the best Canadian Christmas traditions: Each year since 1971, Nova Scotia has sent Boston a large Christmas tree in gratitude for help Bostonians provided after the devastating Halifax…
INTERNATIONAL ANARCHISM: SOLIDARITY WITH INDONESIAN PUNKS: In the countries where anarchism is a tradition the idea of “anarchist subcultures” is definitely a peripheral matter. Even in countries where anarchism is…
The most challenging part of being a library page has been not answering people’s questions. Pages are in the stacks, shelving books, so naturally people are going to ask us…