Some light reading
So I don’t want to toot my own horn here (yes I do. I really, really do. Toot! Toot! Toot!) but there’s this thing that happened recently (in the past…
September 2018
An Emoji Language
Reading this month’s First Monday, which was a special issue on the emoji, inspired me to a creative thought, which I document here. The thought has two parts: – first,…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Ed Finn laments the lack of labour coverage in today’s media landscape. But David Climenhaga points out that a combination of the omission…
TWENTY-ONE WAYS FRIENDS AND FAMILY CAN HELP CAREGIVERS
I shared this image on the Caregivers’ Living Room Facebook Page this morning and it got me thinking of all the ways that friends and family members can help caregiving…
Conservatives in the Social Sciences
This was inspired by some of my own thoughts while listening to a CBC Ideas program on the lack of “conservative” academics in the Social Sciences. For the purposes of…
A Pattern We Cannot Ignore
As I write this on the morning of Labour Day, it is already 38 degrees Celsius with the humidex in Southern Ontario, another day of oppressive heat and humidity in…
Apparently, I should be dead
So, I should be dead. There I was on the 401 outside Woodstock, driving back to TO in the fastest lane. The highway was clear and smooth. No potholes or…
Silent Hypocrisy
At John McCain’s funeral on Saturday, Americans displayed — for a brief moment — the better angels of their nature. But, David Leonhardt writes in The New York Times, for…
Poker playing politicos.
It has been a while since playing poker at the local casino. The people who work the tables as a team, at that place, play a rough game. I stick…
Far Right Continues to Ramp Up Violent Rhetoric: Advocating Politically-Based Murders
Well, the past week has certainly been interesting if you are interested in fringe alt-right Toronto mayoral candidates: Looking forward to @marksaunderstps @TPSOperations & @JohnTory being loud & clear that…
Alberta Soldiers of Odin Planned Labour Day Stunt: A Reminder Who They Are
A couple of weeks ago ARC learned that the Soldiers of Odin in Edmonton planned on holding an event near the Mustard Seed in the city on Labour Day, ostensibly…
A Theatre Near You
We felt outrage over this and other indignities experienced by persons of colour in the USA. For some reason though, we paid no attention to segregation in our own community.…
springsteen on broadway: a performance of unrivaled intensity
In my most recent Listening to Joni post, I said that I write with my brain, but I listen to music with my heart. A few nights ago in New…
two days in new york city
This is one of those posts I write only for myself. This blog functions as my travel diary, and I like that diary to be complete. So here I am.…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lana Payne’s column for the Labour Day weekend comment on the role unions play in pushing for advancements for everybody. – Paul…
Barbarians In the Boardrooms
When policies fail over and over again, Jacob Bacharach writes, it’s because their real intent is succeeding. And, for the past forty years, capitalism’s real intent has been on a…
Internet voting this election
This election will see Collingwood’s first use of internet and phone voting (the latter includes both smartphone and your bog-standard touch-tone phone). Eligible voters will be mailed a PIN early…
The politician as huckster.
It is hard to estimate the times a politician has said to me: “What do you think of this great idea? In most cases—if part of the campaign team—I will…
Sen. John McCain Eulogized
“He was a great man,” “We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness.” “The real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice…