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I got home tonight from my tutorial class (we are a, um... spirited group) and found this over at Ron's place, so I emailed it out to the group. Inside joke, but I thought you should see it too.

Comments

[bobbie]

brilliant! made me laugh out loud this morning! thanks mike!

[Beth]

Yes. Except I'm more on the weeping end than the laughing end this week.

[Mike]

I think I do both within the 60 minutes duration of said tutorial.

[Tim]

Mike, the Anglican world (of which I'm a part) could especially use to remember this right now (see my latest post.)

Cheers!

Tim

[Beth]

That's precisely why I'm weeping, Tim.

[David T]

"Has it ever occurred to you that you might be wrong?"
What a question, and coming from a comic strip!! Last week the Toronto Star ran a book review of a new book (of course I got it from Amazon in 3 days)written by Henry Giroux. No he is not from Quebec: he is a U.S. professor-escapee from Penn State University, now at teaching at McMaster, Hamilton,Ont. The book is entitled "Against the New Authoritarianism", just published in Winnipeg.
The book is scary from two view-points. First, it is a frightening expose of G W B's neoliberalism, proto-fascism and militarization of society.This gives the rich handouts and corporate relief while basic healthcare services for children, the elderly and the disabled are reduced or cut. And there is no room in the public domain for critical discussion. The second even more troubling aspect of the book is the author's repeated point that this free-market extreemism and privatizing of social benefits i.e. Bush's "compassionate conservatism", has the support of Christian right-wingers, a powerful body.
Good God: When will somebody in that group learn from the comic strip and ask: "Could it actually be that we are wrong?". David T.