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August 3.2012
A very beautiful girl reading the book Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess told me the ironic tale that Aurora, Colorado had banned the novella because of its use of objectionable language. Like all bans of its sort, the text is seen as a potential corrupter of the youth. It was ...
Was I wrong about Toronto not being a warzone? No.
July 26.2012
Imagine uploading a blog post bearing your name and opinion and then moments later finding that reality has hastily contradicted you. Hours after I published my last piece of scribble, arguing this city is not under siege and rather safe on the whole, I was bemused by a National Post headline ...
Toronto is a ‘war-zone’ and other stupid clichés
July 20.2012
To my great shame, over the seven years I have lived in Toronto, I have stumbled across impossible distances and insurmountable fences on my way home in the dead of night too alcohol-sodden for my own good. You know what I'm talking about: The backyard hopping missions that wreck ...
Book Review: Judy Rebick’s Occupy This
July 4.2012
It has been a painfully long time since the opinion poll was fully assimilated into Canadian political life. In the arid and austere years of the 1980s, both federal parties began to outlay heaps of money to commission pollsters (an originally pejorative term) to not measure, but control public opinion. ...
Hitler-slapped! Greek politics at its lowest
June 27.2012
Euro 2012 opened with a double whammy as Polish keeper Wojciech Szczesny stonewalled Greek captain Giorgos Karagounis just hours after Golden Dawn spokesperson Illas Kasidiaris assaulted two females on Greek television. Greece and Poland played to a 1-1 draw. I watched the game from an addictive Greek restaurant on Mount Pleasant ...
A Victory for Africa: Charles Taylor’s Sentence
June 11.2012
On May 30th, in a courtroom in Leidschendam, Netherlands, former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison. His sentence was based on his role in funneling guns to West African rebels in exchange for diamonds that were produced through slave labour. A small dose of justice ...
Conrad Black: Ruling Class Failure
May 23.2012
Conrad Black struggled desperately to impress his wife, an outdated and unfunny coquette. If they appear among the power brokers and circles of debutantes today, it is as living dinosaurs. Is there anything worse than someone in a position of extreme power who wallows in self-pity? Or thinks that everyone ...
Oslo Killer: Anders Behring Breivik is a bad, bad sign
May 5.2012
The accused mass-murderer from Oslo is flashing some very dangerous messages to the world. So dangerous in fact, the Norwiegian state has shut down the media during his testimony. Breivik is the man whose principles led him to the indiscriminate obliteration of 77 kids at a youth camp in Oslo, Norway ...
The Final Days of Osama Bin Laden
May 3.2012
A year ago yesterday, May 2nd 2011, was the day Osama bin Laden, the man the FBI claims is responsible for the 1998 US embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya and the 2001 World Trade Center bombings, was cut down by US Navy Seals and CIA operatives under President Barack ...
US Elections 2012: Super Tuesday and the Republican Round-up
March 10.2012
(Photo courtesy of the National Post) Mitt Romney gave journalists the phony impression that he was out of money, leading many to question if he could continue to finance his political machine, since his Republican opponents will not seem to concede victory to Romney. Romney is awash in cash as the Associated ...
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