Archive for November, 2006
Truth, horror and style
In anticipation of the DVD release of The Black Dahlia on Boxing Day, I would like to register here my reason for not going to the theatre to see that movie. It is because of this book, Black Dahlia Avenger by Steve Hodel, which I bought just prior to the movie’s theatrical release. (Like many, […]
No-panda-ray
This enigmatic little phrase–”no-panda-ray”–should be part of our Canadian history but is not. I hope to correct that. It all depends on whether I can get a witness and participant to that historical moment, a modest fellow, to go on the record.
By way of visual intro
Here’s a pic taken in 1994 of me with a funny sign on East Hastings in Vancouver.
I was robbed by two men
Perhaps you will enjoy as much as I did this lesson for Japanese women being mugged in English, found on a College Humour site. Aerobics, spandex and a mugger with his bandanna on backwards. This has it all.
Here we go
That took a while, but now I’ve finally found a clean template for a blog that I like. So… to begin again. FYI My tag line at the top is a quote from the novel Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov: saying more would create an unnecessary spoiler.
Mismanaging turmoil
Canada’s aid agency has been so unaccountable in Kandahar, it looks bad even to the Senate
Brigadier-General A.J. Howard was testifying before the standing Senate committee on national security and defence about Afghanistan, particularly Kandahar province, where Canadian troops have fought fierce battles in recent weeks. In his Oct. 16 testimony, the general spoke glowingly of […]
Is calling someone a “dog” a universal insult?
It is a wide cross-cultural practice to use ‘dog’ as some sort of derogatory term,” says John Archibald, head of the University of Calgary’s linguistics department. It’s found in Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish, Afrikaans, Chinese and Turkish. But why is not clear. “Before they were domesticated, dogs were considered quite dirty,” Archibald speculates.
The English term bitch […]
Do not pass go
The federal ‘three-strikes’ legislation is slagged as an American knock-off
When Justice Minister Vic Toews introduced Bill C-27 in the House of Commons, he ignited an expected firestorm. “Unconstitutional!” “Mob rule!” the Liberals shouted. His bill, amending the Criminal Code provisions on dangerous offenders, will change the law so that any person convicted of a third […]
Taxation without representation
Given the UN’s track record, a new global airline tax may resemble giving car keys and alcohol to teenage boys
Disarray–that was the word used to describe the end of the last session of the newly established United Nations Human Rights Council. On Friday, Oct. 6, the council halted its proceedings because it couldn’t agree on […]
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