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Dr.Dawg
Overweenies
The word “bureaucrat,” to me, doesn’t mean hard-working people in offices. Rather, it means people ruling from them—unelected, unaccountable, overweening power-trippers deliberately placing themselves in the way of sense and…
Toronto-Iraq
Time to juxtapose, photos this time. Click for links. Has it really come to this?...
Ottawa police profile
An Ottawa police officer, whose arrest of two young Black men after one of those “routine” traffic stops was questioned by a judge, has been cleared of racial profiling after…
Only in America…
…is feeding the hungry a criminal offence. Hackers are on the job. Good on ‘em. (Can’t happen here? Don’t get too complacent, now.) ...
Palestinian self-determination opposed by Canada
Canada—that is, the Harper government, not the decent majority—is pressing for on-going bantustan status for Palestine. Statehood, sought by the Palestinian authority, will be opposed in the United Nations by…
CPCCA: a spectre is haunting Canada
—the spectre of anti-Semitism. The long-awaited Final Report of the so-called Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism (CPCCA) is out at last. It’s more than a year late, but its…
And no religion, too
This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps…
Rape: hanging by a thread
Reading the comment thread on my previous post made me nostalgic, but not in a good way. It’s instructive, and depressing. Frankly, I don’t think I’ve seen a more perfect…
DSK, chapter 2
The most recent news about Dominique Strauss-Kahn has come as a bit of a bombshell. The case against him for raping a chambermaid appears to be on the brink of…
The value of a life: time to juxtapose
This is summer, the living is easy, and my blogging may be light from time to time. Readers know that my place is not solely devoted to incidents of uncontrolled…
Scandalizing the court
“In the criminal justice system,” the Law and Order voiceover intones, “the people are represented by two separate but equally important groups: the police who investigate crime and the district…
Everybody must get stoned
It may be only a matter of time. Are there plans in hand to deal with these impact events? ...
Conservatism: not a politics…
…a diagnosis. Take Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser. Please. ...
Killing brown people: Canada says "you’re right"…
…but so what? It would be interesting to have Margaret Somerville’s “pro-life” take on all this. The question: if you demand the right to leave warning labels off poison, win…
Ottawa police: the beat goes on
Ottawa Police Constable Shane Henderson is a man who can run through a rainstorm without getting wet. Back in 2004, he was videotaped beating a customer in a Tim Horton’s.…
Afghan detainee document dump
First, the background. Now, the documents. Soon: the commentary. Stay tuned....
The perfect squelch
“he conductor got on the loudspeaker and reminded everyone to speak softly and not use profanity on the train, ‘especially those people who went to Harvard or Yale or are…
Anti-semitism
Just thought I’d toss the word in there, since nowhere in this entire article does it once appear. Of course, no criticism of Israel is involved. PS: More than you…
Mob vs. mob
Which one is worse? You decide....