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What Anti-Semitism Isn’t

The Hamas attack against Israel on October 7 2023, Israel’s retaliation against Hamas-controlled Palestine, and the wave of demonstrations expressing opposition to or support for one or other side in the ongoing conflict, have made the subject of anti-Semitism newly relevant.  A form of bigotry dating from the rise of Christianity and scarring the histories […]

The Persistence of Memory

Why reconnecting through social media isn't always as good as staying apart:

The Beacon Extinguished

Long foreseen, the downfall of America has finally arrived.

Horrible to Contemplate

Re-posting my appreciation of the existential horror writer Thomas Ligotti...

Ducking Donald

Another source of Trump's support: his enemies.

Writing on the Right (and Left)

There’s an apocryphal 2016 quote from US television executive Leslie Moonves, who supposedly said that Donald Trump’s surprising visibility as a presidential candidate “may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” Whether he was being cynical or just shortsighted, Moonves might have added that Trump’s rise and the polarization it engendered […]

Chalk Value

A collection of my sidewalk and driveway chalk art from over the years...

Taking Genocides

Why competing genocides in Canada leave no winners among Canadians.

End of Days

Autumn is my favorite of the seasons, for its natural elements and, inextricably, for the human responses we have projected on to them.  It is the time of John Keats’ “Ode to Autumn” (O season of mists and mellow fruitfulness...), of the jazz standard “The Falling Leaves,” and the iconic Canadian painting The Solemn Land, […]

Rock ‘n’ Roll / Music

  Bill Wyman of the World’s Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll band is alleged to have said once, “I’m in the Rolling Stones, I don’t need to practice.”  He might have meant, We gig constantly, so I don’t need to play more than I do anyway, or he might have meant, I’m already successful, so why […]