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Memes
An article in the journal/magazine Adbusters was my first introduction to the word meme, not referring to a mini-survey for a webjournal, but referring to a unit or element of cultural ideas - the analogue to genes enabling their transmission from one host-person to another ( Read more... ) -
The last ten minutes of my day
Hate is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Some attribute the maxim above to Ann Landers.
I spent the last ten minutes of my work day today yelling into the telephone. I was yelling at someone who had asked me, "why do you hate [that guy] so much ( Read more... ) -
A wandering installment of 29
This is a continuation of http://suite-mck.livejournal.com/39117.html#cutid1
I had previously seen the Broadway show based on the music of ABBA, Mamma Mia, at the Mandalay Bay Casino and was happy to do so again. It was, however, our collective second choice. We ( Read more... ) -
Anti-idling bylaw stalls out
Council opts to put decision over for one year to educate public ( Read more... ) -
Edmonton Sun's January 18th Letters Page
Re: Graham Hicks "Determined Exaggeration," Jan. 16. Graham Hicks must not have watched the video that accompanies Andrew Hanon's story on vehicle pollution and the need for an idling bylaw. If he had, he would have heard that 62 grams of "greenhouse gas emissions, criteria air contaminants and toxic heavy metals" are emitted every minute by the ( Read more... ) -
Rod and David Respond to the bylaw
Edmontonians warming to anti-idling bylawTHE EDMONTON JOURNAL JANUARY 17, 2009 ( Read more... ) -
Barry Responds to Andrew Hanon
Sorry, but you've become an unwitting victim of grandstanding showmanship, one of the specialties of the Toxic Watch Society's Myles Kitagawa. What you have reported as "62 grams a minute of toxic smoke" is a stretch of the truth. Search throughout the Internet and you will find an average vehicle idles at one to two litres per hour. Break that ( Read more... ) -
Myles Responds to Graham Hicks
Re: Graham Hicks "Determined Exaggeration ( Read more... ) -
Columnist Graham Hicks Responds
JANUARY RESOLUTION ( Read more... ) -
Edmonton Sun's Coverage of the TPW Committee Mtg
Environmentalist raises the bar on idling debate and it's not a pretty picture, but don't expect bylaw to clear the air ( Read more... )