Open Letter from a Millennial: Quit Telling Us We’re Not Special
There is a generation in [a country very close to Canada] that believes in its own specialness. I will agree with that. But you’ve got its identity wrong.
specialness
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
and they can still talk
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Forty years in solitary: two men mark sombre anniversary in Louisiana prison
Since 1972, Wallace and Woodfox have been brought before more than 150 prison boards where their unprecedented duration in solitary confinement has been reviewed only for them to be sent straight back to their cells. The only explanation given: “Nature of the original reason for lockdown”.
Meanwhile, in Alberta
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Alberta’s education minister said he was assaulted on Saturday while door-knocking at a home in the provincial election campaign, but the man who answered the door denied hitting Thomas Lukaszuk.
i made this.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
i have a new favourite poet
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Bunch of poems quoted on Metafilter, this one resonated with me the most.
True love. Is it normal
is it serious, is it practical?
What does the world get from two people
who exist in a world of their own?Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason,
drawn randomly from millions but convinced
it had to happen this way – in reward for what?
For nothing.
The light descends from nowhere.
Why on these two and not on others?
Doesn’t this outrage justice? Yes it does.
Doesn’t it disrupt our painstakingly erected principles,
and cast the moral from the peak? Yes on both accounts.Look at the happy couple.
Couldn’t they at least try to hide it,
fake a little depression for their friends’ sake?
Listen to them laughing – its an insult.
The language they use – deceptively clear.
And their little celebrations, rituals,
the elaborate mutual routines –
it’s obviously a plot behind the human race’s back!It’s hard even to guess how far things might go
if people start to follow their example.
What could religion and poetry count on?
What would be remembered? What renounced?
Who’d want to stay within bounds?True love. Is it really necessary?
Tact and common sense tell us to pass over it in silence,
like a scandal in Life’s highest circles.
Perfectly good children are born without its help.
It couldn’t populate the planet in a million years,
it comes along so rarely.Let the people who never find true love
keep saying that there’s no such thing.Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
Love, hate and cognitive dissonance
Thursday, January 26, 2012
The Misconception: You do nice things for the people you like and bad things to the people you hate.
The Truth: You grow to like people for whom you do nice things and hate people you harm.
