Funny

In beautiful downtown Corvallis Oregon- where I once spent a rather happy hour and a half - they have a farmers market. A chap, dusky of hue, set up a booth “Meet a Black Guy“. A rare bird in Corvallis as I remember it.

Written by jay on June 13th, 2008 with no comments.
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Fun

Vanity Fair has a blog map. Great fun and gives you an excuse to look at trash this summer weekend.

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Not So Fun

The CPC sells out a made in Canada Copyright Policy…Go read Micheal Geist. If you value the right to be able to transfer or share your digital files it is time to get active. The CPC is introducing a copyright regime which makes the DMCA look like hugs and kisses. This need to be stopped.

Go to the MP event in your area, there is bound to be one, Question 1, what is your position on the abolition of s.13 of the Canadaian Human Rights Act, 2) Do you favour the imposition of American copyright rules in Canada?

Have fun, have a hot dog, take your kids.

Written by jay on June 13th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Meanwhile in Zimbabwe..

The wife of a Zimbabwean opposition party member has been brutally murdered in what is being labelled as one the most grotesque atrocities yet committed by Robert Mugabe’s regime.

Dadirai Chipiro, wife of Patson Chipiro who heads the Zimbabwean opposition party in Mhondoro district, had a hand cut off as well as both of her feet before a petrol bomb was thrown through her window. daily mail

There are some of us who still remember Rwanda and the fact that African and Western governments stood by as the tribal tensions escalated to genocide have to ask what, if anything, we are prepared to do to stop Mugabe’s thugs.

In point of fact, in our post colonial cringe, the answer is not much. After all, interfering in the “internal affairs” of even the most disastrously failed state (viz. Burma) would be, at best, paternalistic, at worst imperialistic. So, rather than breach the core tenets of politically correct post colonial inaction we are likely to sit on the sidelines and let the tribalists have at it.

Post colonial thinkers will, no doubt, think this racist, but a bit of adult supervision might go some distance to preventing the acceleration of a political genocide in Zimbabwe.

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Reposting the Boissoin Letter

Ezra has kicked off a campaign to repost Rev. Scott Boissoin’s nasty little anti-gay screed to take the mickey out of the Alberta Human Rights Commission and to protest the vastly over reaching nature of the “sentence” given to Rev. Boissoin.

I am not republishing the letter because I think its content is wrong in every particular and Boissoin, while sincere, is deranged on the whole homosexuality thing. I would no more publish it than the Protocols of the Elders of Zion or a Hamas press release.

That I will not publish this piece of religious mania does not mean that I think it is a hate crime or that I in anyway approve of the absurdity of the Alberta Human Rights Commission’s “sentence”.

The very point of a free press - and these little pixels, in my view count as such - is that the owner of the press is entitled to publish, or not publish, whatever the Hell he or she wants to for whatever reason.

Ezra says, “I don’t care if you’re Christian, or gay, or both. I don’t care if you agree with it or not. Just republish it. Do it because you’re not supposed to do it…..Do it to show that you’re alive. To feel alive. To show that democracy and freedom are still alive.” ezra levant

I am very much alive on a glorious spring day and I am not going to ruin that day by spilling any pixels republishing the ranting of a fundamentalist. And I feel fabulous exercising my right to run my press the way I want to.

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