what i’m reading: clarence darrow, attorney for the damned, by john a. farrell
I last wrote about Clarence Darrow in early 2012, after reading a piece by one of my favourite New Yorker writers, Jill Lepore. Two new biographies of Darrow had been…
August 2013
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – David Atkins comments on the ever-growing disconnect between the interests of a few making a killing on Wall Street and the lives…
Harper’s Senate Reform Reference
For the most part, I have chosen to ignore Harper’s cheap gambit of trying to get the Supreme Court to overturn the amending formula in Canada’s constitution to enable Senate…
Russian Warships to visit Cuba
It looks that relations between Russia and U.S have taken a new turn. The American government is quite upset over Russia giving refuge to Edward Snowden. Now the renewal of…
MexAmeriCanada, Version 2013
Welcome to the United States of MexAmeriCanada. Represent! I was just thinking a few days ago how I haven’t used the MexAmeriCanada tag for a while. Did I cause this…
What Jeff Said…….
Even if it could, Senate reform shouldn’t proceed without the provinces – or the people To the surprise of everyone in the Ottawa bubble, Her Majesty’s Minister of State for…
On a Four-Hour Workday
Stephen Elliott-Buckley echoes Bertrand Russell‘s idea of the 4-hour workday. Russell in brief: Above all, there will be happiness and joy of life, instead of frayed nerves, weariness, and dyspepsia.…
One Thing The Fast food Industry Refuses To ‘Super-Size’
“In both of my shops, I look around — There aren’t high schoolers,” ,,, “There are people with families, trying to raise families. And so the whole notion that this…
George Monbiot of Britain On Canada:
I don’t know much about George Monbiot. He is an environmental activist. He has some interesting views about Canada. Here is what he said about Canada on CBC The Sunday…
The Gift of Friendship or The Caregiver Ties That Bind
I’m up at our family cottage on a lake in the mountains of Quebec. Yesterday it rained, so naturally I gravitated to the bookshelf in the corner by the fireplace.…
Using the Lac Mégantic disaster.
The ultimate indignity in death is to be used to profit others. It was only when hearing Prime Minister Harper say it in Quebec City the other day that you…
Libertarians return to school
The Wall Street Journal published an article this week that, in line with its usual far-right stance, argued that a libertarian approach to education is far superior to the American…
LA bound with Palma Violets
Here’s a shot of PV’s Sam Fryer and me at Grove Fest yesterday. Interesting shirt he’s wearing, there.
Sunday morning: While You Wait For The Rain
She’s an interesting songwriter. Good morning.
Me (and a ton of Canadian Maccabi kids) heading to LA
…which is kind of cool, because my Brother of Another Mother Bernie Farber and I raised some money for Maccabi a few weeks ago in Ottawa, to help with travel…
In Sunday’s Sun: by-elections don’t matter, except when they do
“Hell,” W.C. Fields once said, “I never vote for anybody. I always vote against.” Fields, the legendary comedian and misanthropist, wasn’t talking about Canadian byelections, but he may as well…
The Harper Regime and the Signs of the Apocalypse
I don't know how I made it to this long weekend in Ontario. But now that I've arrived I've got to say this is the weirdest summer ever. After the…
6305…Time Begins Today
NFL is back. Hall of Fame game. Boys versus The Fish. WFDS