Race and humour

I've encountered a couple good intersections of race and humour. The first is Dave Chappelle, who takes on race relations head on and succeeds with a great amount of laughter! The second is ¡Ask a Mexican! which is a great Q&A column that combines witty slangly language with well thought out, well-research responses.

City Mitts

I remember the sticky bus and Skytrain poles and tried not to think to much. Now Emily Beck has created stylish gloves for transit use. Pretty cool idea!

Peace at last! War to follow??!?

I'm so glad to hear that a peace of sorts has been reached in Lebanon. It' s heartwrenching to hear about people coming back to bombed-out homes.

But I'm unnerved at all the attacks that Canadian soldier face, and yet another soldier being put to rest back in Canada. We have no one to blame but Harper and his militaristic aping of Bush's policies.

I liked this article on cognitive reasoning -- it's provides a nice panacea to the millienialism that seems to be appearing all over US television networks. Cynical types like me would see this kind of news programming as preparing the US public for a war on Iran.

A living National Treasure may leave Canada

It's so sad to think that Oscar Peterson, a man I think is a National Living Treasure, would have to leave Canada because of racial harassment. Why can't these criminals be found and punished?!? This story is a reminder that we, as Canadians, have a long way to go -- tolerance is not enough.

IM so does NOT mess with grammar!

According to researchers @ UToronto, we don't need to worry about IM when it comes to grammar.