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Dear ADL: Do Palestinian lives matter?
Israeli police initiate ‘friction activity’ on quiet streets in East Jerusalem - See more at:...
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Gay discrimination is not a right, even for the 'religious right'
There is a childlike phenomenon among Christian conservative commentators, namely the indignation they express at the fact that their business-owning brethren cannot use their 'faith' as an excuse to...
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Cruise Night (July 19, 2016)
The following pictures were taken at the weekly Kanata Cruise Night at the Hazeldean Mall. Proceeds from the event go to the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario.This experience reminded me of how...
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Racism: available in soft and ultra-soft
When someone (often an old foreigner) says something with a soft racial undertone about another race that is not meant to be derogatory but often comes out in a way that may make others slightly...
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UPDATED! Solaris 11.3: Firefox, Flash, and the distant dream of gcc
After a prolonged spell of flitting about with various distros, I have taken up once again with Solaris 11.3 as my main desktop, this time with an eye to satisfying two modest goals:upgrade Firefox...
View ArticleElection 2016's true losers: a tale of two establishments
It's a little soon to say with any finality what exactly went wrong with the U.S. presidential election that someone like Donald Trump could so thoroughly break every conventionally-accepted rule of...
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The Effigies' Haunted Town
Lately I've been stumbling across some old gems for my Why haven't I heard of this before? file. One such example is The Effigies, a punk outfit from Chicago that has been active on-and-off since 1980....
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Dear Ann Coulter: Bullying has never made America great
It has been speculated that Ann Coulter's 2015 book, ¡Adios, America! The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole, provided what would become the blueprint for Donald Trump's...
View ArticleUNIX news roundup, with apologies to Tic Tacs
Here is a brief selection of UNIX and Unix-like headlines that have caught my eye, along with some commentary (or fanboy smarm passing itself off as 'commentary'):Now that the U.S. election season has...
View ArticleOpenindiana Hipster 2016.10: Field notes from a fresh install
The past month or so has seen me flit back and forth between OpenBSD 6.0 and OpenIndiana Hipster 2016.10 since getting my hands on a refurbished Dell Inspiron 1525 for next-to-nothing from a computer...
View ArticleDenial
I recently posted an art video on YouTube entitled Denial, which is a visual meditation on the Armenian Genocide in particular, as well as religious persecution and unacknowledged genocides in...
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Blessed St. Xenia of Petersburg Cathedral
I snapped these pictures yesterday of Blessed St. Xenia of Petersburg Cathedral (Russian Orthodox Church Abroad) in Kanata, Ontario while waiting for the bus. This is definitely an old-school Russian...
View ArticleOrthodoxy as apostasy?
The following is an April 19, 2017 email to Jeff Maples, Editor at Pen & Pulpit, albeit slightly modified from the original, which admittedly was written in haste. For better or worse, the views...
View ArticleTory leader right to give Jack MacLaren the boot
The following is a response to a news article comment on lake88.ca._____Firstly, Patrick Brown is not the Premier, and so the Province of Ontario is not "under Patrick Brown", nor is it a...
View ArticleDon't burden Wonder Woman with American jingoism
The following is a letter to the editor of the New York Post._____ Dear Editor,Maureen Callahan's appraisal of the upcoming Wonder Woman movie (Why 'Wonder Woman' is less American than ever, June 1,...
View ArticleDon't taint Orthodox Christian ecumenicism with lies of omission
A June 1 article in the National Catholic Reporter demonstrates how to mislead (and therefore manipulate) an unwitting reader by either downplaying important facts, or in this case omitting them...
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OpenBSD 6.1: XFCE 4 posing as MATE, the joys of syspatch, doas mount and...
About seven months have elapsed since the last time I shared any episodes from my ongoing UNIX adventures. This prolonged silence, methinks, was probably due to the fact that I was on a single...
View ArticleFormal complaint to Toronto Sun: Khadr editorial amounts to unlawful accusation
The following is a formal complaint submitted to the Toronto Sun on July 12, 2017._____I am writing to submit a formal complaint regarding your July 9, 2017 editorial, Khadr payoff a slap in the face...
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