This whole cartoon thing is rediculous. Michael Standaert has the right idea: Why does the Danish Prime Minister even need to be involved in this situation or apologize for this? What I don’t understand is the fact that GOVERNMENTS have been drawn into this mess. They are not responsible for the actions of writers and …
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Bologna Ponies at the Technomania Circus
(All photos for this entry are posted here) Saturday night rolled around, and I headed south into Barrio Logan to check out Jimmy & Co (aka Bologna Ponies) play. After their burlesque show appearance in North Park, they had been asked to play at the Technomania Circus. Their punchy-sideshow sound fits well with the circus. …
I’m a leftist puritan grinch or, buy your way to a merry Christmas
Tom is on a roll; another interesting These Days on KPBS. The topic for this segment is consumerism and the holidays. His guests were Kalle Lasn of Adbusters, the always entertaining Rev Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping, and Philip Gay, professor and chairman of the sociology department at San Diego State University. …
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Calgary sprawl
(This is an older post that I never got around to publishing) I certainly can’t fault Jim Kunstler’s view of recent development in Calgary – “..archetypal city of immense glass boxes in a sterilized center surrounded by an asteroid belt of beige residential subdivisions.” It is sadly, very true. The last 15 years of Calgary …
NewTithing
On These Days this morning they hosted someone from the NewTithing Group to talk about a new study. The group has just completed a study on quarter of a million individual tax returns. They looked at the charitable donations compared to a percentage of their assets, and the way that broke down into different age …