Month: August 2008

August 29, 2008

Robber in the Vault

A damning critique of the current state of government in Canada.  Private corporations have infiltrated our democracy and are threatening to turn it into a police state in order to ensure all profits are maximized. Read more here. Not only have relatively harmless administrative matters formerly run by civil servants been “privatized”.  But whole, large bodies of privately employed workers (employees of CGI, for example) […]

August 28, 2008

Maple Leaf: Recall Our Government Instead

This is a delicate issue.  And a challenging topic.  Because of the legalities involved, I don’t want to do or say anything more than just ask some questions about what has happened with this outbreak of disease. More than a dozen deaths are linked to Maple Leaf Foods, most of which have been recalled.  I personally can’t shop anymore without questioning the value of all […]

August 16, 2008

Excited Delirium Book: Chapter 64 (The Great 08 Quake)

Author’s Note: The following is Chapter 64 of the my online book “Excited Delirium”. Please post comments. Please tell your friends about this story. If you’ve missed a chapter, please click here for Chapter 1 (Prelude) or here for the full index . The vague and distant tremors felt in Beijing might have been mistaken for a train rushing through town. Or joyous celebrations in […]

August 16, 2008

Excited Delirium Book: Chapter 63 (Sasha Pigeon’s Funeral)

Author’s Note: The following is Chapter 63 of the my online book "Excited Delirium". Please post comments. Please tell your friends about this story. If you’ve missed a chapter, please click here for Chapter 1 (Prelude) or here for the full index . Sasha Pigeon would have taken great pleasure in knowing that his wake was the same day as the start of the Olympics […]

August 10, 2008

Putting Tasers in Schools

I don’t know a lot about the context of this school and what the rationale might be for doing something so severe as to use Tasers against children, but I do know this: Treating people like criminals will have one major result. They’ll become criminals. Full story here . Tasers have already been desrcibed by the United Nations as a tool of torture and yet […]