http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/nationalism_in_the_aftermath_of_9_11_20110910/

I first heard of Lewis Lapham in a Sunday Edition interview with Michael Enright on CBC Radio last year. I remember being impressed with him, and also recall hearing at the time that he edited a literary/journalistic sort of journal called Lapham's Quarterly. I picked up the most recent copy last week and have been enjoying his opening essay on ( Read more... )

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

Michael Moore delivered this speech to the demonstrators in Wisconsin recently that I heard about from his e-mail newsletter. Regardless of what you think of the guy, it was an impassioned speech and I was touched by his emotion. (I didn't watch the whole thing, but you can see it here if you're interested ( Read more... )

If you have iTunes, you should listen to the May 16th 2010 edition of the audio podcast for CBS's 60 Minutes. Here's the iTunes link to that podcast -- just look for the May 16th episode on the Deepwater Horizon:

http://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/60-minutes-full-audio/id81210923

More background with some transcripts are available here:

http:// ( Read more... )

My wife and I just viewed the documentary, Trouble the Water, which follows the story of a young couple in their 20s from the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans who were unable to effect an evacuation prior to Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005. It was a pretty moving story, shot mainly on camcorder by the wife of the couple, Kimberly Rivers Roberts ( Read more... )

Holy crap. In the provincial NDP's first real budget, check out what they did to universities. From Page 7.2 of this supplementary budget doc:

EDUCATION - ASSISTANCE TO UNIVERSITIES

Grants to Universities ($ Thousands)

2009-2010 Estimate: 455,802
2009-2010 Forecast: 449,647
2010-2011 Estimate: 60,643
Page 7.3 outlines the details. Most of those ( Read more... )

Courtesy of audrawilliams, this excellent vid sums it all up perfectly:

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http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2009/06/pbw-mj-video-tribute

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/popvox/archive/2009/06/25/michael-jackson-dead-at-50.aspx

I don't believe it! And I feel so bad for grammardog -- she had tickets to one of his London shows!