John McCain is running for President. It’s no secret, it’s been no secret since he lost the 2000 nomination to Bush that he would be running for the job again in 2008. What was kept a secret until fairly recently, and successfully too, with McCain running around the last few years sounding for all the [...]
Archive for April, 2007
12 Apr
God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut
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No writer has inspired and entertained and influenced the way I think and write like the great Kurt Vonnegut. Though (sadly) I never met him, he has been like a mentor, a grandparent and a friend for over half my life. I have returned to his books again and again. Last summer I had a [...]
10 Apr
Canada and the U.S. Part 5: Nationalism in two fast stereotypes
For parts 1-4 of Canada and the U.S. see US and us or follow the link in the sidebar.
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Nationalism is okay, in moderation. I sometimes stick a flag in my window on Canada Day. And sometimes it’s even a Canadian Flag. I like it when a Canadian team wins in [...]
6 Apr
The Colonel’s Secret Recipe
The President of Gambia is a healing visionary whose dreams will change the world. No, wait, he’s a crackpot. Which was it, again? You decide. In January, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh says he had a dream. In it, his dead ancestors appeared to him and provided him with the Holy Grail of African Health: a [...]
1 Apr
No Free Food For the Poor
One of John Cusack’s best (small) roles was in Roadside Prophets where he played a manic advocate of “free food for the poor”, which allowed him to dine-and-dash at restaurants with great ease of conscience. But as a philosophy, it would have him run out of Las Vegas, Nevada. What happens in Vegas is supposed [...]
1 Apr
No More Dynasties
I don’t think America should have a female president. There, I’ve said it. Don’t get me wrong: I think women are perfectly capable of wielding power with the best of tyrants, if only given the chance. It’s just that I don’t think they should be given the chance. Not now, anyway. Another time, but not [...]
1 Apr
You Say Osama, I say Obama – Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
The 2008 Presidential ticket is decided, now all Americans have to do is choose: FoxNews or MoveOn.org. A Democratic Presidential debate that was to take place on Fox has been scrubbed by the Democratic party itself because of a joke made by the CEO and Chairman of Fox, Roger Ailes. Here is what Ailes said, [...]
