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Kamloops Hillside12 years ago
Here is a blog where I post links to things I've been reading on the web. From time to time I'll also add comments. And I invite comments from anyone out there. Comment on the readings, comment on the comments, comment on my comments. Fly at it!
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Couple does without black pepper for a year!
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
calendarlive.com: THE WRITER'S LIFE - The last mystery of Vidal
He's eighty with an artificial knee and diabetes, living out what he calls his "Cedar Sinai" years. Gore Vidal reflects on life, love, and choices. This is a terrific interview.
Technorati Tags: interview, literature, puppy, puppy
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Blogger defeats intolerance
Management fads are a danger
Technorati Tags: management
Monday, February 13, 2006
David Frost takes position working for the emir of Qatar
Technorati Tags: bin Laden
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Dick Cheney, Striaght Shooter?
Reference: CNN.com - Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter - Feb 12, 2006
Technorati Tags: Dick Cheney, gun control, hunting, lawyers, lawyer jokes, memes
Thursday, February 09, 2006
The scandal is getting closer to Wayne
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Is Gretzky the next Pete Rose?
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Melancholy Muslim Danes: A clash of symbols
Technorati Tags: cartoon, censorship, islam, Denmark
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Garrison Keillor is steamed—Fries frenchman’s book
I have read only one of the Atlantic Monthly pieces upon which Levy has based his book. It was interesting and inventive, and focused upon the peculiarities of America, not the norms. His article did precisely what the travel genre has always done.
Keillor’s touchy response is an indication of America’s current insecurity. Like an adolescent, America is unsure of who it is and of what its role is in the world. It has serious doubts about its own normalcy and serious fears that it is somehow weird.
The best Keillor can do is raise objections to details in the book and accuse Levy of being a “Frenchman.”
American Vertigo is available at Amazon.
Technorati Tags: books, commentary, culture, Europe, France, United States, writing
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Frey and Oprah continue their partnership
Really, though. It’s all about the Benjamins. Frey and his publisher surely knew that the appearance would drive up sales figures. And Oprah surely knew that this hyped confrontation would lift her ratings. Their hypocritical game of victim and penitent victimizer made them both a bundle.
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Will newspapers survive in the future?
Technorati Tags: blogging, business, commentary, news, newspaper, online culture
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Web site lists bounties for bin Laden and others
I don’t quite know what to make of it. The photos of all those Middle Eastern faces set off thoughts of racial profiling. Who would make use of this site? Is somebody sitting at home looking for a get rich quick scheme? Will somebody who stumbles across it think, “isn’t that Mr. Jones who moved in down the street?”
Technorati Tags: capital punishment, George W. Bush, bin Laden, terrorism, United States
Monday, January 16, 2006
Dr. Suess vs Hitler
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Homer, Juvenal, South Africa, and the mall
Peter Stothard, in his blog, observes that Juvenal’s Satires have a lot to say to disaffected, contemporary, upper middle class Afrikaaners who, like Juvenal, feel unhappy with their changed lot in life. I only really know two Afrikaaners, transplanted to frozen northern Canada, so I can’t say if what Stothard says is accurate, but his observation strikes me as yet again proof that the classics still have relevance today and that there are certain uses we can make of them today. They put our world into perspective, they tell us we are not alone, that someone has felt this before us, and that we are normal in our unhappiness, our alienation, our desire to be somewhere else.
Links to books: Juvenal, Chapman’s Homer
Technorati Tags: books, classics, Homer, Juvenal, South Africa
Friday, January 13, 2006
Pole Dancing as a university course; with a minor in economics?
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Most emailed NY Times article of 2005
“It took only a few decades to create a brazen new world where the highest ideal is to acknowledge your inner slut,” she laments.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Get out of that smelly cab and walk
Monday, January 09, 2006
Canadian health care triumphs again
Isn’t anybody doing any significant medical research in the Great White North?
Long time foe advocates for holocaust denier’s release from jail
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Friday, January 06, 2006
$11 Billion Dollar Fine for Spammer
I'm sure the spammer doesn't have that kind of money, but the judgement assures that his funds will be garnisheed unto the seventh generation. Time to move off shore and start another email campaign to pay the fine.
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- Garrison Keillor is steamed—Fries frenchman’s book
- Frey and Oprah continue their partnership
- Will newspapers survive in the future?
- Web site lists bounties for bin Laden and others
- Dr. Suess vs Hitler
- Homer, Juvenal, South Africa, and the mall
- Pole Dancing as a university course; with a minor ...
- Most emailed NY Times article of 2005
- Get out of that smelly cab and walk
- Canadian health care triumphs again
- Long time foe advocates for holocaust denier’s rel...
- $11 Billion Dollar Fine for Spammer
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