Posts Tagged: Counter Culture
What Is Multiculturalism A Euphemism For Today?
Posted by on Sunday, November 7, 2010 in - 22 comments
Three friends of mine from undergrad ended up respectively marrying a Brit, a Slovak and a practicing Hindu. The weddings were all marked by their twin cultures and no one, as far as I can tell, lost an eye. A sister-in-law is a Swede. My folks are immigrants. So, I always wonder about these sorts …
What Is Your Local Cultural Wish List?
Posted by on Thursday, August 12, 2010 in - 2 comments
A good article in the Toronto Red Star in which 25 things to add to the city are suggested: • The question is: what stuff? Music? Theatre? Art? We have plenty of those already. The answer has to be something intangibly missing from the fabric of the city, yet that robs us of assuming a complete …
Has The Internet Actually Atomized Us All?
Posted by on Thursday, April 15, 2010 in - leave a comment
Has the counter intuitive actually occurred? Has the Internet really saved and preserved and even help define the particulars of each of us all as well as we and ours? • It’s a widening realization, I think, that globalism, beyond banking, climate change and warfare, has always been a dubious …
Only One Anglican Left In Canada By 2061
Posted by on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 in - leave a comment
Really? I think more likely none or three but nevermind. I am drawn to this article mainly because I think the last line below may not be correct: • According to the report, the diocese – “like most across Canada” – is in crisis. The report repeats, without qualification or question, the results …
Things I Love About Canada
Posted by on Saturday, July 1, 2006 in - 16 comments
Wow. I am sure glad that my folks got to this place. And not just cause Europe (and Grannie, too!) turned out to be socialists! But because Canada is really great as our celebrations on July 1st...celebrate. Here is my list about what I really like about Canada - you add yours: • Paddle to the …
The Best Friday Chat Ever
Posted by on Friday, June 16, 2006 in - 27 comments
It has to be the best ever - because I say so. It appear that we are in the era of the say so and we might as well join in, when anyone can make anything up and call it science, patriotism, ethics or law and divide the nation with consequent calls to action. Now is the hour to join the fight to …
Update On Indecency As Pop Culture Icon
Posted by on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 in - leave a comment
Mongery noting with Ian making three excellent • observations on the idiocy of certain pop culture referencing in our time of fear.* • “*Please review here for backstory on fear. Please also note continuing and keen lack of interest in issues relating to AttendsTM-based reality.”
Are We Working Too Dumb?
Posted by on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 in - 14 comments
In the second in a series of work related posts that is also at risk of devolving into images of BBQ sauce and the Flea in a speedo, I noticed this in the Globular the other day: • “Dr. Wolkoff added that more employers are taking work home with them, or living their lives on-call, because they …
Private Guilt Consulting
Posted by on Monday, June 5, 2006 in - 7 comments
I have finally found it. The key to internet-based financial freedom. Consider this: • “Feeling guilty about driving your SUV through the crowded streets of the city while a grey pall of smog sits on the horizon? Now you can assuage your guilt by doing what some of the biggest industrial …
Cheese Rolling!
Posted by on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 in - 6 comments
When my pal Parizeau called Canada not a real country I had no sympathy...but he missed that one point on which we might have had shared ground - a lack of decent cheese rolling opportunities. The caption for the above from the BBC "In Pictures" site today was this: • “This competitor is one of …
