leftcoastguy
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 Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:56 am Post subject: Writers I enjoy |
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One of my favs.
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What gets me the most is that this lady confessed in the emergency room. I would have lied and said the kibble fell into my mouth. Or I mistook it for braised veal. I speak as someone who regularly empties her paper shredder without unplugging it first.
May I just add that I don't think there is any blame in this case that can be laid at the feet of government. Call me a right-wing crank, but I don't look to the feds for regulation when I eat food that a dog turned up its nose at and froth emerges. |
Inadvisable remarks
| Quote: | I oppose cheap airfares, because of the damage to the planet, because of passengers so scary I would abandon the subway car that contained them, and because I wouldn't be asked to give distant speeches at a time of day when honest people are still abed if it weren't so very affordable.
When I wrote this in a newspaper column five years ago, I was attacked for elitism. But I'll say it again. Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan's disastrous deregulation of the airline industry, which began in 1978 and spread internationally, has destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of airline employees, poisoned the planet and made flight a perfect foodless hell, all in the name of making what actually is an expensive product, cheap. It was money that ruled, rather than human needs. |
To air is human; to fly, bovine
Another fav.
| Quote: | | JK: It’s a very good point you make. All the people I mentioned are opinion writers. I have tried to avoid being an opinion writer. I’ve never even wanted to be on the editorial team who was writing editorials--all of them have been journalists. My concern has always been that before one can form an opinion, one needs facts--as wide a spectrum of facts as possible. I’ve found that mainstream media selects the facts to bring people to think and look in a certain way; and that was not only incomplete, but a disservice to the reader, and that the reader needed what one could call the other side of the coin. I’ve tried to bring those facts which were selected out, and put them together in a coherent way. I’ve done it constantly for almost 30 years. Trusting the reader--telling him or her that these are the facts... I’ll tell you a very recent example is Lebanon. The hue and cry in the western media of what Lebanon is today--that Hezbollah is radical, that it’s a proxy for Syria and Iran, that it’s threatening Israel, threatening Lebanese democracy. The statements that I’ve heard out of the White House, from Ottawa and Paris constantly reiterate democracy, democracy. I thought, this is a totally artificial debate, which can have dangerous consequences, so I did a piece last week, called the “Democractic Deficit in Lebanon.” I just brought the facts to show that when you have a dictated arrangement--dictated by the US and Saudi Arabia--on the Tyre Agreement, where they have allotted 64 seats to Muslims, 64 seats to Christians on a sectarian basis and you haven’t had a census in the country for 75 years... everyone who has done estimates based on the official figures has come to the conclusion that the Christians today are about 35 per cent of the population. Even the sectarian democracy that they’ve imposed does not reflect the true sectarian makeup of the society. These are just facts and figures. |
Correcting Selective Reporting An interview with Jooneed Khan of La Presse
One of my not so favs - Rick Salutin. I previously enjoyed him but recently he seems to have sold out for fame if not fortune.
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