Monthly Archives: March 2022

Also, the best newspaper column in recent memory is Andrew Cohen’s “Ukraine forces moral clarity on the world”, Edmonton Journal, March 12, 2022, (starts off “Over the last fortnight, the invasion of Ukraine… if you go looking for it online): … Continue reading →

Alberta Gets

As things start to open up (yet again) with redneck Alberta having one of the lower booster rates (10% lower than the national average), some musings: The main thing people missed was in-person presence and free socializing. “Man is a … Continue reading →

To think intelligently is to think morally.And vice-versa.

“Her finely touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But … Continue reading →

(Atwood writes a ‘plainer, flatter’ prose syntax and, IMHO, is and was, first and foremost, a poet; this rare US ed. features a CD of her reading her new poems; which is why I featured her in Inside Poetry, 2nd … Continue reading →

Numerous bans and sanctions against Russia.Russia as pariah.With China and North Korea, likewise, hanging out, call it a Semi-Global Village.

They have stopped delivering their products to their 81 distributors in Russia. With all the financial, service (McDonald’s), and product sanctions happening, Russia, Russian choices, its economy, and Russian lifestyle shall also be more limited and never be the same.

–Sting, “Russians”, song of our time (again)

His role as Fowler, the sensitive, lonely, pathetic, cynical antihero of Graham Greene’s conflicted Vietnam novel The Quiet American. A difficult part, ably assisted by his nemesis, the naive American aid coordinator-conspirator Pyle, ably played by Brendan Fraser. Caine certainly … Continue reading →