Fixing Institutionalized Education
Having taught high school for 12 years, then TAing at university during my MA, I’ve seen more than my share of human carnage in an increasingly institutionalizing education ‘industry” as kids endure the K-12 system then try to function in the world or in post-secondary institutions after graduation. Two core problems increasingly vex the system [...]
Java, Post-Linearity and Systems Theory
Java will save us. Not the bean, not [much] the computer thing, nor the shark, chicken or Russian cigarette, but the awesome instrumental song that appears on Hugo Winterhalter‘s The Best of ’64 lounge album, though it wasn’t a “lounge” album then. In a fit of political cynicism, I hooked up my record player and [...]
Harper, Toyota Show How the Public Is Eager to Be Appeased
Harper prorogues parliament, drops in the polls, then cancels House breaks, and rebounds. Toyota recalls a quarter million cars in Canada, apologizes and spins around the clock, then has a massive rebound in sales. The public is apparently very eager for excuses to forgive corporations and conservative governments. Does this eagerness extend to groups not [...]
Politics, Re-Spun on Coop Radio, 3.1.10: an Olympics Hangover Analysis with Budget Previews
Imtiaz Popat on “The Rational” and I, along with former Green Party Vancouver Parks Commissioner Roslyn Cassells talk about the Olympics, democracy, protest, animal welfare, and a provincial and federal budget coming up this week. The audio is weak in places, but the discussion is strong! The video podcast of the conversation lives at Vista [...]
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