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In 1995, Saturday Night had this from Mordecai Richler, the late great iconoclast:
"As I remember the terror bombings of Coventry and London's East End, never mind Hitler's 'final solution', I do not feel obliged, as seems modish these days, to apologize for the firebombing of Dresden."
Quebec hospital linked to C. difficile deaths cleaner now: officials.
.....The institution east of Montreal now produces a daily report on infection rates, has hired new permanent cleaning staff and juggled its budget to allocate more funds for disinfection procedures,.........
The National Post recounts the popularity of Floridian illogic: The results of prosperity are classified as the basis for prosperity.
"[ Richard] Florida’s work in urban studies, economics, and cultural and technological innovation has captured the attention of millions with his books The Rise of the Creative Class and The Flight of the Creative Class about the integral role of creativity in the growth of cities.
Mr. Florida has said the multicultural nature and gay-friendly attitude of Toronto has and will continue to attract many of the world’s most creative and innovative thinkers to Ontario’s capital and stimulate economic growth. "
Grand Bruit, my mother's birthplace, remains one of Newfoundland's most beautiful harbours, but now without a school, come September.
In the cool evenings of August, as the visitors get down to their last few hours spent home in Grand Bruit, the passage of many eras will compound again, as it has so many times before.
My mother was an alumnus of that school. My father taught there.
The metropolian world moves on. 'Equalization' is another profanity that will not brave the winterlude in Grand Bruit.
In our cafe society, there are always people who are willing to play social eunuchs to any dictator, to any brute force that offers to accomodate their elitism. Mark Steyn has no trouble understanding that ancient concept and its currency.
W.H. Auden called the 1930's 'a low dishonest decade'. While some may have fallen victim to this malaise, Friedrich Hayek did not. Five years into the war against the Nazis, he published a work of seminal insight and clarity. It bears reading and reflection today.
University of Chicago Press rightly touts one of its prized publications, Hayek, F. A.: The Road to Serfdom:
"An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program—The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For F. A. Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy."
This is unlinked, other than to my own thoughts.
What keeps our central Western institutions firmly on a course for centralization of services? An intuitive response to the communications revolution that the microprocessor has wrought should lead to institutional satellites. Instead, the present reaction seems just that, reactionary, dedicated to re-paving the less travelled roads leading to the centre.
Metropolitan centricism is now taking on the shape of a social pathogen.
CTV reports:
A top hurricane forecaster called Al Gore "a gross alarmist" Friday for making an Oscar-winning documentary about global warming.
"He's one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things. I think he's doing a great disservice and he doesn't know what he's talking about," Dr. William Gray said
Fearless prediction: With their usual fervor, the Gore disciples will pool their collective grade seven-level scientific knowledge, control that nasty gag reflex over 'math' and condemn this eminent scientist in a manner reminiscent of coven hunters from a few years back.
British Prime Minister Blair is unflinching in this classic showdown with a deliberatively provocative rogue regime in Tehran.
"I really don't know why the Iranian regime does this [show captives on TV]," because it just arouses disgust, he told reporters Friday.
However, when will the ultra-sophisticates in the West rear up to douse British patriotism in a flood of guilt-ridden angst, quivering over possible 'resentment'?
This story has the capacity to bring out all of the usual sanctimonious preachers braying for an entente with the reptilian government in Tehran at the expense of Western honour. British sailors are a dispensable commodity when neurotic pacifists sublimate their own cowardice in a cold slimy stew of cultural self-loathing.
