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Aug
28
White Guilt & the Middle East
August 28, 2006 | 3 Comments
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 for [...]
Aug
27
A little diversion
August 27, 2006 | 2 Comments
http://www.jacksonpollock.org/
Jackson Pollock
Aug
20
The Real Free Press
August 20, 2006 | 5 Comments
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 regimeâ€, (Christ, was it really a regime?). As I recall there was an endless stream of English “editors†[...]
Aug
17
On Inertia
August 17, 2006 | 2 Comments
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 [...]
Aug
9
On Emancipation
August 9, 2006 | 2 Comments
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 [...]
Aug
7
Some more on land — now Zimbabwe
August 7, 2006 | 2 Comments
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 [...]
Aug
7
Land or people?
August 7, 2006 | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Aug
5
Why sun, sand & sea just ain’t cuttin’ it anymore
August 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment
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.