Thursday, January 24, 2008

Canadian Runagate - The Basic Bethune

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Last week a university student of my acquaintance launched into an excited introduction of a extraordinary and important Canadian from the p...
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Sunday, January 13, 2008

Fugue for a Darkening Island

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I read the PAN edition of Christopher Priest's prophetic novel, Fugue for a Darkening Island , sometime in the 1990s, and it made a last...
Sunday, January 6, 2008

LION OF THE DESERT- a DVD backgrounder

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This 1981 bio-pic pits the "lion," famed Senussi guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar against the Italian bull, 6' 4" tall Gene...
Monday, December 31, 2007

Canada's Happiest City - The Tao of Canadian propaganda.

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Those who know me well usually dismiss me as a pessimist. Actually, I am just a garden variety cynic. At my age I find it near impossible to...
Monday, December 24, 2007

Christmas comes but once a year...

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One of the greatest thrills of my youth.... earthrise from a lunar orbit, thanks to the Apollo astronauts. From far away... she sure looks p...
Saturday, November 24, 2007

Upton Sinclair - Al Gore has been studying failed campaigns

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This mornings ten minute research project? .... getting to the bottom of an intriguing quote. At 8:30 a.m. I had my nose buried in a fascina...
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Monday, November 19, 2007

Innovative B.C. Drug Smugglers Still Hammering the U.S. Border

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B.C. Export Product - KOMO News was the only news desk to show a photo of the B.C. manufactured "party drug" known as ecstasy. Th...
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