After dropping off passengers at the Trudeau International Airport in Dorval, I headed back to Ottawa driving an empty van, torn between the comforting inanities of the sports station on the radio (go Habs go!) and the distorted eco-rock of the eternally-rejuvenating Neil Young, playing with the much-younger men of Promise of the Real.

Anyway, ( Read more... )

Apparently I'm not the only person who thinks race may not have been the cause of Gates' arrest.

Thanks to supergee for this article, and to the internet in general for this one.

And, not related to race (at least not directly) but definitely related to a creeping police state: "The Children’s Secretary set out £400million plans to put 20,000 problem ( Read more... )

To serve and protect? The arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and
The real elephant in the corner
I moved to Toronto from Sudbury, Ontario, when I was 14 and, despite the fact Toronto was a city nearly 20 times the size of Sudbury, it took more than two years before anything happened to make me feel unsafe in the metropolis.

And it wasn't an angry ( Read more... )

colinmarshall's often cryptic somewhat objections aside, I'm not used to my political posts getting too much of a reaction, beyond maybe a few huzzaas from the Usual Suspects. (Actually, I'm not used to getting too many responses to my Words of Wisdom(TM) at all, but that is no doubt more of comment on your Humble Author than it is upon the attention paid by my ( Read more... )