Archive for February, 2008
Valentine’s Day Music
Valentine’s Day isn’t just about perfunctorily purchasing tokens of affection for philistines. There’s love, too. And with love there is sometimes sadness. Here’s one of my favourite country/bluegrass tunes, “Is The Blue Moon Still Shining” written by Bill Monroe’s daughter Melissa, performed by Laurie Lewis.
Remembering Sidewinder
For The China File, Sydney Morning Herald: US arrests alleged Chinese spies. Telegraph: China blasts ‘Cold War thinking’ of spy claims. Ah, Sidewinder.
The director’s cut
For The China File, NY Times: Spielberg Drops Out as Adviser to Beijing Olympics in Dispute Over Darfur Conflict. And Independent: A letter from the world’s Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfu.
Colonizing Africa
For The China File, The Daily Telegraph: Chinese workers seek fortunes in Africa. (The original title was “Beijing sends its surplus workers to Africa“.) Let’s toss this in, BBC: China ‘toxic for Africa freedom’.
Early morning music
Music Mike gives us “Volcano” by The Three Suns from 1960. This track is very similar to the sound on their Fever and Smoke album that followed a year after this song’s release.
Stirring it up again
The controversy surrounding former Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) employee Richard Warman has a familiar ring to it. Warman has been accused of logging onto web sites and writing inflammatory statements to goad people into making similar remarks. Actually it’s worse than that. He’s accused of planting hateful statements and then using those as evidence in CHRC complaints against those who operate the web sites—in other words, fabricating evidence to convict people. Warman’s CRHC convictions then become part of the justification to suppress political debate through the use of hate laws and human rights legislation.
It’s not politeness
Charles Adler: Canada is becoming a tyranny of politeness. “When did politeness conquer freedom. I don’t know.” (I do, at least I think so. Give me a minute to do a bit of searching.)
Read Reid
Greg Weston: The Chalk River isodopes. “For 13 years, successive Liberal administrations underfunded and mismanaged Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd…” (btw Reid Morden, President of AECL 1994-1998. That guy’s name pops up all over the place.)
Dead zone
Now the end is near; halftime of the Superbowl and soon it will be over. What am I to do with myself for two months? Watch the commercials again? NHL hockey doesn’t really start until April.
Early morning music
“Stir it up” by Bob Marley and the Wailers. I’ve been humming this for the last couple of days, “I push the wood / I blaze a fire / Then I satisfy your heart desire.” Yah mon.
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