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Atomic Grammar for Me and You
This is the one and only grammar lesson I intend to give. Atomic grammar. All about fission and fusion. I wouldn’t have to be teaching you grammar if your grade school teacher had taught you properly. But that didn’t happen. She didn’t know. He didn’t know. So he/she/they just left you in muddle, where you […]
Extinction Events and 100 Generations of Carbon
March 24, 2013
Carbon Karma Is Karma on Steroids Let’s put two ideas together to show some of the dimension of things, a taste of the real cost of carbon. Joe Romm’s headline practically covers the first idea by itself, “Doubling of CO2 Levels in End-Triassic Extinction Killed Off Three Quarters of Land and Sea Species.” Romm’s article discusses […]
The Principles of Newspeak by George Orwell
March 16, 2013
George Orwell appended the following essay to end of his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. NEWSPEAK was the official language of Oceania and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc, or English Socialism. In the year 1984 there was not as yet anyone who used Newspeak as his sole means of communication, either in […]
The Conquistador’s Playbook
March 13, 2013
History of Aboriginal America 12 Cortés and the Seven Protocols of Conquest Shortly after he came ashore on the Central American mainland in 1519, Hernán Cortés symbolically “founded” the city of Vera Cruz, and after dispatching an agent to Spain, he thereafter grounded and scuttled his remaining ships. What were these mad Spaniards up to […]
The Mad Gardener’s Song by Lewis Carroll
March 12, 2013
It is not well-known that, beside the Alice books, Lewis Carroll wrote another nonsense novel, Sylvie and Bruno (1889). The Alice books are masterpieces. Sylvie and Bruno is laboured and tedious, unfunny and unexciting, and for the most part, well forgotten. The exception is the following poem which appears as a refrain, a verse at a time […]
A Handful of Myths
March 11, 2013
History of Aboriginal America 11 Cortés, the conquistadors, and the myth of the “handful of adventurers.” When 19th century historian William Prescott wrote about Hernán Cortés’ and his role in the invasion and destruction of the Aztec empire beginning in 1521, he described the event as “the subversion of a great empire by a handful […]
The “Hockey Stick” – Augmented
March 10, 2013
The journal Science has just published an update on Michael Mann’s “hockey stick” graph by a new team of scientists, who, by combining 73 sets of globally distributed records have extended the reconstruction of past global temperatures back 11,300 years. Michael Mann’s hockey stick only went back 1500 years. The new reconstruction by Marcott et […]
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An Informal Chronology of the Aboriginal Land Question in BC
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March 28, 2013
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