Posted in Controversial Commentary, Political Prattling on May 1, 2006 | 4 Comments »
An educator in Halifax has spoken up and said he believes that the school board should consider opening and all-black school in the district. (Read about his idea here.) The Vice Principal at Halifax's St. Patrick's High School, Wade Smith, says that not enough is being done to encourage black youth to succeed in their [...]
Posted in Controversial Commentary, Political Prattling on February 25, 2006 | 21 Comments »
On Wednesday, officials voted to put an end to most abortions in South Dakota. It hasn't been passed yet, but if this bill goes through, it could mean the first successful challenge to Roe v. Wade in the USA. The case will go to the Supreme Court, who then has the choice of hearing the [...]
Posted in Controversial Commentary, Philosophical Meandering, Political Prattling on February 11, 2006 | 4 Comments »
In a timely fashion, one of my courses this term focussed for the first section on transsexuals. (I say timely because of the movie Transamerica, in which Felicity Huffman gives a great performance as a transsexual woman.) The text we read was called "Sex Change, Social Change" by Vivane Namaste, and her perspective is contrasting [...]
Posted in Controversial Commentary, Philosophical Meandering, Political Prattling on February 6, 2006 | 25 Comments »
I had to submit a paper to my human rights class this week. The topic was whether or not we should tolerate hate speech. I'm posting the paper here - it's not too long - and I am interested to hear what you guys might think about the topic. A bit of context for any [...]
Posted in Controversial Commentary, Political Prattling on January 26, 2006 | 13 Comments »
well, at least that's how I felt after Monday's upsetting election. I voted NDP, and it didn't matter in my riding, because the liberal incumbent got in. It also didn't matter to the rest of the country, who continued to vote in liberals and tipped the scales in favour of the conservative in the end. [...]
Posted in Controversial Commentary, Political Prattling on January 21, 2006 | 8 Comments »
so, I was reading the paper this morning, and happened upon this article, about a heated exchange live on talk radio between long-time NDP leader Alexa McDonough and deputy leader of the Conservative party, Peter MacKay (there's a link on that page where you can actually listen to the clip in question). MacKay actually told [...]
Posted in Controversial Commentary, Political Prattling on January 14, 2006 | 2 Comments »
this week in HRM (Halifax Regional Municipality, for those who don't know) there was a dispute that arose at the Halifax Regional School Board meeting over the reassignment of seats. From what I understand, seating used to be arranged alphabetically according to the members' last name, and now seating is according to numerical district. The [...]
Posted in Controversial Commentary, Political Prattling on January 9, 2006 | 6 Comments »
I read this interesting report this morning on how prenatal testing, which determines the sex of a fetus, has led to the selective abortion of approximately 10 million female fetuses in India since 1998. In India, generally speaking, female children are not valued as highly as male children, and are seen as more of a [...]
Posted in Controversial Commentary, Existential Crises & Epiphanies on January 7, 2006 | 21 Comments »
well, by now if you've been reading my posts at all, you'll know that I'm not religious. I was raised in the baptist church, and at about age 14 I started to have serious doubts about the validity of what I was hearing each Sunday. After a couple more years, I wasn't going anymore even [...]
Posted in Controversial Commentary, Political Prattling on December 20, 2005 | 3 Comments »
This is an excerpt from a recently completed paper, written in reaction to a piece by Jacquelyn Zita that I had a strong reaction to, mostly because it covers a lot of things I am interested in: feminism, queer theory, anti-capitalism, and bioethics. I welcome any comments, as usual.
PROZAC FEMINISM: REINFORCING OPPRESSION
In 1993, Dr. Peter [...]
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