• The Burgh Diaspora's Jim Russell takes issue with an American conservative's criticism of an anti-fracking film as state propaganda for the United Arab Emirates. No, the oil/natural gas market doesn't work that way.
• Crooked Timber's Corey Robin wonders why Matthew Yglesias sees state repression--state policies, more broadly--as key to the problems ( Read more... )

In the end, I'm almost ashamed to say, it was the presence of former Mr. Governor-General and prominent public philosopher John Ralston Saul as MC for Beyond Exile that made me decide to attend, Friday night at 7 o'clock. Co-hosted by PEN Canada and the Toronto Public Library as part of their Freedom to Read Week, Beyond Exile was presented on a ( Read more... )

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Moscow has now canceled its Gay Pride parade. It was canceled after the chief Muslim leader in Russia warned that marchers would be "bashed" if they dared to walk the streets. Money quote:

"Earlier this week Chief Mufti Talgat Tadzhuddin warned that Russia's Muslims would stage violent protests if the ( Read more... )

• Patrick Banks depicts the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
• feorag does the same with Cthulhu.

Visit and view, if you dare.

UPDATE (4:35 PM) : HTML corrected.

My first alma mater, rather.

At the University of Prince Edward Island, a student newspaper became one of the first Canadian papers to reprint the incendiary editorial cartoons when it published them in its Wednesday edition ( Read more... )