Because those things are just habits. You are not your face or your body or your thoughts. You are not your hair colour or your name or your job or your memories. We fall into the habit of thinking this is so. We fall into a pattern of me and mine which isn’t the case. [...]
Yearly Archives: 2006
Cool Economics
20 November 2006 – 10:15 pm
As I mentioned in the Goodreads sent out on October 16th, I’ve prepared a transcript of the Ideas episode Economics and Social Justice, which was released today as a podcast.
Despite Mr Sacco’s acceptably flawed English, I found this to be a remarkably good listen, and I especially liked his take on what the Toronto School [...]
The Language of Quotation
30 October 2006 – 10:39 pm
‘When the individual has reached a hundred years of age, he is able to do without love and friendship. Illness and inadvertent death are not things to be feared. He practices one of the arts, or philosophy or mathematics, or plays a game of one-handed chess. When he wishes, he kills himself. When a man [...]
Lister Sinclair 1921-2006
16 October 2006 – 8:44 pm
My fellow Canadian CBC listeners, who plug your headphones into the computer at work and stream it as I do, who listen to it in the morning as you type your theses because you’re a television snob; who have come to appreciate the music for the news they introduced earlier this year as something iconic, [...]
September 25 1986
25 September 2006 – 2:54 pm
Thursday 25 September 1986
I may not have written in a long time but today was o.k. PS I’m a Space Ace1.
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1. Space Ace referred to a video game in which I had achieved a high score.
And thus, that is the end of the 1986 Diary entries. I didn’t try to keep a diary again until [...]
The Luxury of Terrorism and Adam Curtis
9 September 2006 – 2:49 pm
The Facts & Arguments section of last Thursday’s (Sept 7th) Globe & Mail brought this article by Geoffrey Lean to my attention, where it is noted that ‘food supplies are shrinking alarmingly around the globe, plunging the world into its greatest crisis for more than 30 years. New figures show that this year’s harvest will [...]
Four Canadian Soldiers Killed
3 September 2006 – 5:06 pm
Today, the Canadian death toll in Afghanistan went up by four. I haven’t been keeping count so I don’t know what the total is. What I do know is that this headline pops up every second week or so and is part of the larger pattern of patriarchal conservative governments in power (who keep falling [...]
A Vision for the CBC
1 August 2006 – 1:06 pm
If The One had been solely a CBC production, one suspects that would have charged ahead to do what they could to promote the career of George Stroumboulopoulos, but thankfully sense kicked in at ABC and it has been cancelled. When I read this welcome news in last week’s paper, I noticed that it ended [...]