Sun - December 14, 2008
Time for a change
Mary, Martin and I went out to dinner last
Monday, steaks at the Keg. Then we attended the blogger's meet around the
corner, at the Phog. A
great evening, in both venues.
The three of us have decided to take up blogging together, or so we hope. I told them some time ago that I was about done with Out of the Driver's Seat, and looking for a different approach, with perhaps a wee bit more discipline and focus. Not to mention better software.
The three of us have decided to take up blogging together, or so we hope. I told them some time ago that I was about done with Out of the Driver's Seat, and looking for a different approach, with perhaps a wee bit more discipline and focus. Not to mention better software.
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Fri - January 25, 2008
Windsor (and Essex County) Bloggers meet
Had an enjoyable couple of hours Wednesday
evening meeting other bloggers in the Windsor area. We got together at The Mill,
a warm and cozy pub in the west end of the
city.
(Photo by allegr0)
(Photo by allegr0)
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Wed - November 28, 2007
Hasn't read the book
Comparing the novel The Golden
Compass to a porn flick, a spokesperson for the Catholic Civil Rights
League wants the book
banned by the Windsor Catholic School Board. A school board in Halton,
Ontario has already done so. The book's original title in the U.K. is
Northern Lights, book one of the trilogy His Dark
Materials.
"Under the guise of an exciting adventure story, the very clear message being given is that the Catholic church is an evil organization and God and Christianity are a fraud."
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Sun - March 18, 2007
normblog profile
On Friday Norm Geras posted his
weekly blogger profile and the subject was yours
truly. So far no protests from the transvestite
community.
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Sun - February 18, 2007
Chris Bearchell
Chris died this morning at Vancouver General
Hospital. She had been struggling this past decade with breast cancer, which
returned recently after several years of remission. During that time she
realized a long held dream, building a log cabin on Lasqueti
Island and making a home there that rivaled the one she created in
Toronto on Walnut Avenue.
I'm biased by our close friendship but I can't think of anyone who has made more of a contribution to the Canadian lesbian and gay movement.
Here's her entry in the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives National Portrait Collection, Konnie's official photograph and some of my own.
I'm biased by our close friendship but I can't think of anyone who has made more of a contribution to the Canadian lesbian and gay movement.
Here's her entry in the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives National Portrait Collection, Konnie's official photograph and some of my own.
Posted at 12:18 PM Read More
Sat - October 14, 2006
Hitchens on I. F. Stone
My thanks to Lynne for her comment
pointing to this essay by Christopher Hitchens on Vanity Fair's
website:
I. F. Stone’s Mighty Pen
I. F. Stone’s Mighty Pen
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Sun - October 1, 2006
Heros and Fellow Travellers
By the time I became a regular reader of I. F. Stone he'd
already suffered his first heart attack. Fortunately the highly regarded critic
of American foreign policy was able to recover and keep writing for another
twenty years. After he died a story came out that he was an agent of the KGB. I
didn't believe it. Stone published his own journal. He was fiercely independent
and, after 1956, an anti-Stalinist and a critic of the Soviet Union.
In today's New York Times Paul Berman reviews a biography and a collection of Stone's essays. With respect Berman insists that my hero had his flaws. While he wasn't on the payroll, Stone did do lunch from time to time with a Soviet intelligence operative who saw him as a useful contact. Myra MacPherson, the author of All Governments Lie, describes Stone as a fellow traveller with a double standard that at times favoured the Soviet Union and other communist dictatorships.
Maybe so, but my admiration remains undiminished.
In today's New York Times Paul Berman reviews a biography and a collection of Stone's essays. With respect Berman insists that my hero had his flaws. While he wasn't on the payroll, Stone did do lunch from time to time with a Soviet intelligence operative who saw him as a useful contact. Myra MacPherson, the author of All Governments Lie, describes Stone as a fellow traveller with a double standard that at times favoured the Soviet Union and other communist dictatorships.
Maybe so, but my admiration remains undiminished.
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Fri - July 7, 2006
RSS Fatigue
Coming home from a delightful ten day excursion
through British Columbia I was confronted last week by the usual backlog of
correspondence and reading material. The email wasn't too bad, about 60 non-spam
items with only a half dozen requiring replies. At the post office they hadn't
even had to clear my box: four bills, two magazines, several advertising flyers
and one real honest to goodness letter.
Handwritten!
I'd suspended my sub to the Windsor Star but I'd managed to stay current by checking out the paper's web site during a visit to the Lasqueti Internet Centre.
But on starting up NetNewsWire, my newsreader, I was presented with a daunting list of rss feeds from the 187 blogs, web sites and podcasts I like to follow. There were over 3 thousand postings waiting for my eyes.
I'd suspended my sub to the Windsor Star but I'd managed to stay current by checking out the paper's web site during a visit to the Lasqueti Internet Centre.
But on starting up NetNewsWire, my newsreader, I was presented with a daunting list of rss feeds from the 187 blogs, web sites and podcasts I like to follow. There were over 3 thousand postings waiting for my eyes.
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