George Carlin, free speech advocate, gone at 71
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 Posted in Humanities | No Comments »I was talking to my father-in-law on Sunday morning about which show George Carlin ws likely to bring to his upcoming night at the River Rock. Would it be the silly and hilarious poke at absurdity that generates his funniest ...
Servamus - Fearing the Image of the Vancouver Police
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Humanities, Legal Explorations | 3 Comments »Servamus. It is often said that in an armed law enforcement agency - be it military, paramilitary, or police - that exists within a democracy, the highest rank is civilian. That democratic hierarchy of rank is evident in the motto ...
Where are you, Bobby Kennedy? The Mindless Menace Continues
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in Humanities, Legal Explorations | 3 Comments »I was listening to CBC Radio 2 tonight on my way home, and they played Senator Robert Kennedy's speech, "On the Mindless Menace of Violence," about the plague of violence that was making the United States sick, in his view. ...
Of Mortar and Wine: A Passover Lesson in Law
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in Humanities, Legal Explorations | No Comments »Passover, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the Exodus from slavery in Egypt and the emergence of the Jewish People as a free nation under Mosaic Law, is now upon us. The tradition of the Passover seder, the traditional feast ...
What did Fairmont pay for my “protected” view?
Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in Humanities, Legal Explorations | No Comments »I wrote in an earlier series of posts that laws exist as a combination of policy and imperative, operating either to curb antisocial behaviour that can damage the fabric of society or that can alter it. We have some laws, like ...
Nine Inch Nails in the RIAA’s Coffin
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 Posted in Humanities, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | No Comments »According to Prof. Larry Lessig, Nine Inch Nails' latest album has been released under Creative Commons. Kudos to Trent Reznor! http://lessig.org/blog/2008/03/nin_goes_cc.html I tried to comment but Prof. Lessig's blog is giving me some sort of SQL error. Here is my ...
On Friedrich and Britney, part III
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 Posted in Communications, Humanities | No Comments »When we left off with "On Friedrich and Britney, part II", we asked a question about the connection between Nietzsche's statement, "Without art we would be nothing but foreground," and Shelley's, "poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration". The answer ...
On Friedrich and Britney, part II
Monday, December 31st, 2007 Posted in Communications, Humanities | 2 Comments »How does the art of which Nietzsche writes reveal the existence of something beyond foreground, the existence of texture? For that we must leave Freddy N for a moment and read a Briton who was somewhere on the continent ...
On Friedrich and Britney, Part I
Thursday, December 27th, 2007 Posted in Communications, Humanities | No Comments »Let's leave law for a few days... “Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and ...
