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Tone-deaf: With every speech, Mubarak pisses more people off

By acanuck on Tue, 02/01/2011 - 5:11pm |

Hosni Mubarak had reportedly been preparing today's "concession" announcement for days. Man, does he need some new speechwriters! After the briefest nod to "the legitimate worries" of young Egyptians, he basically slammed the ongoing protests as the work of political agitators. Not a good start toward calming the waters and creating dialogue.

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Reshuffling the Mideast house of cards

By acanuck on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 4:58pm |

Interesting couple of weeks in the Middle East, no? Tunisians take to the streets to depose their country's long-entrenched dictator. WikiLeaks-type revelations destroy the last shreds of credibility Mahmoud Abbas's regime had with Palestinians. Hezbollah (acting entirely within Lebanon's constitution, BTW) installs its own choice for prime minister. George Bush's vision of Arab democracy on the march finally takes form!

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Right-Wing Rag Redeems Itself

By acanuck on Fri, 09/17/2010 - 8:55pm |

I'm not normally a fan of Canada's National Post, but I give the conservative daily full props for the headline on today's front-page photo.

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Portrait of the terrorist as a young man

By acanuck on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 4:02am | Politics, Social Justice, World Affairs

The jury has been selected, and the trial begins this morning: the first prosecution of a Guantanamo detainee since Obama instituted his new, improved, Supreme Court-compliant military-commission system. Not at all like Bush's, except for every important detail.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/americas/and-then-there-were-7-the-jury-who-will-decide-omar-khadrs-fate/article1669446/

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Bohemian Rhapsodist: Tuli Kupferberg, 1923-2010

By acanuck on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 1:58am | Arts & Entertainment

Who the Fug? Yeah, that's the guy.

Some of you (probably most of you) are too young to recognize the name, but The Fugs were a seminal influence on music in the mid to late '60s. Sort of a Mothers of Invention without the musicality; a Velvet Underground without the polish. Protopunk, maybe ur-punk. The name derives from Norman Mailer's corruption of the word fuck in The Naked and the Dead.

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IDF audio and anti-Semitic, anti-American activists

By acanuck on Sun, 06/06/2010 - 1:57am | Politics, Social Justice, World Affairs

It's no secret that I greet all information coming from the IDF skeptically. I expect bullshit, but I expect cleverly crafted, quasi-credible bullshit. So when I heard this 26-second audio clip from the flotilla encounter two days ago, I felt sure it was a scam -- a hoax by some nasty leftist agitators seeking to embarrass the Israeli military.

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I bought a toaster today

By acanuck on Fri, 04/02/2010 - 2:16am | Business, Potpourri, Personal, Food & Drink, Technology

I know, I know. Daglog is not Twitter. And as Joe Biden would say, big F-ing deal. It's just that I'm over 60 years old (there, I said it) and to the best of my recollection I have never before bought a toaster.

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Hey, Queen's University PC Nazis: Sumo suits are not racist instruments of oppression

By acanuck on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 9:38pm | Sports, Social Justice

The Alma Mater Society at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., has just cancelled a campus fundraiser for a local foodbank. The problem: the event would have involved students donning sumo suits and wrestling each other. A few similar events have already been staged at the university. Here are photos:

http://www.pbase.com/parpho/image/119537016

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