Slovaj Zizek - 20 Years of Collapse - NYTimes.com

Zizek about post-communist malaise, and capitalism without democracy, a point I heard him make at length in one of the recorded talks I am currently listening to.

Zizek is current the light shaping my inherent criticism of the left. I'll report more if there's interest.

Please go vote in sabotabby's awesome Roman Polanski poll!!!

Also, you probably know by now that Whoopi Goldberg said that it wasn't rape-rape. That is now my rape tag.

Fucking celebrities. What's next, getting away with murder? Wait, that was Ted Kennedy. NEVERMIND.

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Whoopi is so off-based here that even her conservative co-host Sherri calls her out ( Read more... )

Joe Fiorito: Sometimes price of freedom is gloriously inconvenient. Another good column in the Star profiling some of the Tamil protesters. I think the "they're not Tamil, they're Canadian" premise a little facetious (why not say "also" Canadian?), but Fiorito only has the best of intentions. hat tip to culpster.

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Le Directeur Général des Élections dépose un rapport accablant sur le vote électroniqueHopefully, the current moratorium on electronic voting in Québec will be maintained for perpetuity. Sadly, I think people's obsession with the idea that technology is always better will ensure that we will eventually have full electronic voting, everywhere. But ( Read more... )