Ninety years ago, Halifax was a major shipping port in the British war effort. Ships from Canada and the US would steam into Halifax every week, in advance of an Atlantic convoy. The ships would find the world’s second deepest harbour snug, and cozy, and crowded, and their sailors would find a few day’s entertainment [...]
Archive for the ‘High Horse’ Category
Memorials
Posted in Canada, High Horse, Politics on December 6, 2007 | 4 Comments »
High Horse: Capitalism Gone Awry?
Posted in Canada, High Horse, Politics, United States on November 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Can we trust — I mean really trust — corporations to do the right thing?
Imagine for a moment that you’re the CEO of a tobacco company in the 1960s, and the Surgeon General announces that your product kills people. Perhaps you experiment with new filters and new blends for a few years, trying to minimize [...]
War — what is it good for?
Posted in Being Green, Canada, High Horse, Politics, United States on October 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
War is good for focusing our attention. For getting everyone to understand that we can chose to live together, or to die alone.
In 1939 (and 1941, for US readers), our forebears united to fight fascism, and a to prevent the world from sinking into a darkness so deep that we might not have escaped.
Can we [...]
Cost*
Posted in Being Green, High Horse, Politics on October 15, 2007 | 4 Comments »
On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind – the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future… Blog Action Day [...]
Journalism 101
Posted in High Horse, Writing on June 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
While surfing a few Mac blogs today — lots to talk about, with the iPhone launch measured in hours — I came upon the start of a debate (@ Bynkii) over the penchant for some bloggers to call themselves citizen journalists.
As if!
So very few are, and Bynkii’s John Welch doesn’t mince words. But one reader [...]
Bad language follows (Murdoch and his minions of evil)
Posted in High Horse, Politics on June 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Vivacious cartoonist Mikhaela B. Reid writes today about something passed under my radar. Employees at The Wall Street Journal stayed home from work today to protest Rupert “Needledick” Murdoch’s attempt to turn this newspaper into another mind-numbing, bullshit-producing, intelligence-insulting, dogma-spewing, right-wing propaganda rag for eunuchs. Much like Fox News.
I don’t have a problem with right-wing [...]
The Little Children
Posted in High Horse, Spirit Moving on June 1, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Salon has a fantastic — and surprisingly evenhanded — article about the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky.
Built with $27 million in donations from fundamentalist Christians, this huge 60,000 square foot complex, employing more than 300 people, is charged with proving that the Biblical version of creation in the book of Genesis is accurate, truthful, and [...]
Smug Canadian gets hoisted*
Posted in Canada, High Horse on April 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a smug Canadian, and I sometimes drive my American partner crazy. Sometimes usuallyEvery bloody day I feel morally superior because I live in a country where liberal isn’t a dirty word, where society is generally more tolerant, and where multiculturalism is seen as a blessing. It can make me altogether too glib.
But it sure [...]
The hacks at NBC
Posted in High Horse, Life on April 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It’s the oddest thing.
Journalism is not an admired profession. People respect doctors, and teachers, and paramedics, and firefighters, and even lawyers. But most people have very little good to say about journalists.
And yet when I worked as a journalist, people were always fascinated by the business of news gathering, the famous people we’ve met, the [...]
Massacre
Posted in High Horse, Life on April 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s impossible to be eloquent in the face of such tragedy. I won’t even try to console, for my words will seem pale and weak, and such poor comfort to anyone who is suffering. And all of America must be suffering.
Without a doubt, the United States is the world’s greatest country. And I’d even go [...]
