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You have the power

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Been noticing these ads recently. David Suzuki, one of the greatest Canadians, levitating fluorescent light bulbs. Intoning the sage words: “You have the Power”! Indeed. In the TV ad he appears on “Bob’s” doorstep just stopping by to change his porch light. I can’t help it, but I don’t see David Suzuki in these ads, [...]

Manic Week coming up

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

I’m not looking forward to this week coming up. I have two essays due, neither of which I have started, and I did tell you I gat family in town, so I want to spend some time with them. The week after that I have a presentation, and you may have guessed that I haven’t [...]

Sexual Politics

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

Its late and I can’t sleep and my mind is racing so much that I can’t read. The only thing that seems to help at these times is to write. So here I am in front of the computer, thinking about the last few hours.. I attended a beautiful lecture by Carolyn Cooper, a professor [...]

End o’ the Week

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

Another Wednesday. Another school week. Yup. I’m done with classes until next week monday night. This has been the first time since September that I’ve actually been able to make it through the week without having to spend a sleepless night or two doing readings. I can honestly say that this week was an enjoyable [...]

Careful what you wish for…

Thursday, November 4th, 2004

55 days left in the year!! Whoohoo… Well, the US elections are done and gone now. The incumbent has won his first election. It was close but in the end, no cigar… The funny thing is that I am not surprised. Come on now, you didn’t think Dubya was going to lose did you? He [...]

November 2nd

Saturday, October 9th, 2004

An American friend of mine today asked me to pray. Something I don’t do very often, but it is something that I think about a great deal and take seriously. You see, recently I have been following the U.S. elections and listening to all of the rhetoric: Bush said this, Kerry said that, the polls [...]