From the monthly archives:

August 2006

White Guilt & the Middle East

28 August 2006

I was led to this article by my trawling through the blogosphere, and was reminded that Rick Lowe made a note of Shelby Steele’s book White Guilt some time ago. Now I am familiar with Steele’s work, having once been an avid subscriber to Harper’s Magazine, and still having a fondness for that magazine, specially [...]

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A little diversion

27 August 2006

http://www.jacksonpollock.org/ Jackson Pollock

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The Real Free Press

20 August 2006

Lynn Sweeting writes about true journalistic freedom here, on her blog. Here’s some of what she has to say: I was a reporter in that newsroom for about eight years. During the bad days of the “Pindling regime”, (Christ, was it really a regime?). As I recall there was an endless stream of English “editors” [...]

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On Inertia

17 August 2006

I’m in my third year of employment as a civil servant.  I started out in this profession, twenty-odd years ago.  I worked as a civil servant for three years, and left to enter the teaching profession.  Some people thought I was crazy; I was taking a pay cut, I was moving to apparently sub-standard working [...]

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On Emancipation

9 August 2006

In 1833, the British Parliament passed an Act to abolish slavery in the British Empire. As of August 1, 1834, all slaves throughout the empire were to become free to some degree — if they were under the age of six, they would become free immediately, but if they were over six, they were to [...]

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Some more on land — now Zimbabwe

7 August 2006

From time to time, we hear reports about Mugabe and his misrule of Zimbabwe. Now know that I was at Pearson College with the first student from Zimbabwe, Zobo Chimurenga, and I watched him conduct his own flagraising ceremony — alone — on Zimbabwean Independence Day in February 1980. Mugabe was for us then a [...]

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Land or people?

7 August 2006

I found this article in Time more than interesting. It’s discussing how Cuban-American exiles in Miami and other American interests that had their property confiscated during Castro’s revolution have expectations of seeking reparations for what they have lost. And it’s serious. I normally take the call for reparations from slavery sought by certain hard-line anti-colonial [...]

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Why sun, sand & sea just ain’t cuttin’ it anymore

5 August 2006

Perfect beaches can be simulated. Check out Japan’s Seagaia theme park with its Ocean Dome — an artificial, indoor beach with sand of crushed marble that makes it as white as ours. Here’s a review.

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