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…
2011
Xmas Day Off To A Lucrative Start!
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…
Happy Holidays
Hope everyone has a great holiday season:
How I learned to hate Justin Bieber
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…
On Lawrence Solomon’s God
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…
Merry Christmas, and to all a good night
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…
Amtrak stop proposed for Blaine, WA
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.…
The night before… you know
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…
Vote For Slap
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…
Art and inspiration meet on Montreal streets
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…
The Light In The Sky
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…
New Rules for the Ways We Watch
Columnist says cable has had a great year, and media giants like Time Warner and News Corporation continue to find plenty of profits.
Wankers of the Week: Crappy Holidaze
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…
A wonderful life – Replay from Dec. 2009
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…
Ooops! Santa Arrested DRUNK On afternoon Of Christmas Eve In Regina
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…
Text of 1997 speech by Stephen Harper to US right-wing think tank
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…
The Nova Scotia tree for Boston 2011
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…
Molly’sBlog 2011-12-24 16:06:00
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…
things i heard at the library: an occasional series
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…