Open Letter to Tony Clement
February 22, 2008 by fern hill · Comments Off
{The following was written by pseudz, BnR fellow-traveller, to Health Minister Tony Clement.}
Dear Minister,
Frequent listener, first-time caller . . .
I’m worried about you, Tony . . .
I know there’s a big gaggle of privatization mullahs in your party who really believe that the ‘Unseen Hand’ will be best for everyone. They’re very passionate. [...]
blog against theocracy
April 7, 2007 by fern hill · 5 Comments
I wanted to join the blog burst on theocracy this weekend. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to write about, so to get going, I googled ‘theocracy Canada’. I got a few hits, among them this one listing terrorist groups in Canada.
This cracked me up. We all know that the Ministry of Public Safety is [...]
Blog Against Sexism Day: Are you ready, boots?
March 8, 2007 by fern hill · 11 Comments
Today is International Women’s Day. A blogger suggests we blog against sexism.
I came to feminism in the 60s as a young teen. Once I started ’seeing’ sexism, I couldn’t stop seeing it. Of course, back then, there was lots of it to see all over the place. Especially in advertising. Well, sex sells.
Slowly, though, [...]
Moral Panic and Democracy
On this Bread and Roses thread about the Manitoba government’s With Child, Without Alcohol ‘campaign’, sparqui quotes a definition of moral panic:
…In essence, a moral panic is an exaggerated concern about some ‘social problem’. Among the characteristics of every moral panic are the alleged breakdown in public morality described above, a heightened level of public [...]
Blog for Choice Day
January 22, 2007 by fern hill · 4 Comments
Men and women are different. Here is what one embattled abortion provider in the US said:
“The only way women come close to achieving equality is if they can control their fertility,” said the 65-year-old Carhart. “Abortion rights for men have been available since the beginning of time. When they’re unhappy with a pregnancy, they walk [...]
The Hormone of Hedonism
November 20, 2006 by fern hill · 3 Comments
When George W. Bush made the astonishing appointment of skdadl had some fun with this theory at pogge).
Get Ready for Melvil Dui Day
October 26, 2006 by fern hill · 4 Comments
It’s October, for hevvinsakes! I was in a department store yesterday and they’ve got the &%$#@**%^ xmas decorations up.
I hate xmas. It’s taken decades but now all my friends and relations understand that I do not ‘do’ xmas. No gifts, no parties, no carols, no bleeding eggnog.
Before friends and especially relations (my sorta mother-in-law [...]
(Un)Holy Alliance: Creationism in Turkey
July 24, 2006 by fern hill · 4 Comments
By fern hill
CBC Radio’s Overnight program is terrific. It takes news and features from public radio stations around the world: English-language services from BBC, Radio Sweden, Radio Africa, Australian Broadcasting Corp, and Deutsche Welle, among others.
The other night I caught part of a program from Deutsche Welle’s ‘Dialogue’ on creationism in Turkey, by Dorian [...]
