Professor, historian, peregrino. Best-selling author of Arrival: The Story of CanLit, currently writing the first history of #vandalism. Believes in naps.
Robert Sapolsky's Determined is a kick in the head. It's basic take is that free will is just what we call biology we don't understand yet. Which means among other things that our entire criminal justice system is wrong. Here's my favourite bit:
"A walk in the street counts more for me than a visit to the MoMA. It isn't arrogance; it is a question of method"
-- Spanish artist Santiago Sierra, 2005
Just a reminder my Canadian friends. Many spring projects.
Home Depot is 100% American owned. The owner is Bernard Marcus is a huge Trump supporter.
Home hardware is 100% Canadian owned.
Pass the word repost.
HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT?
Maybe literally one fucking American newspaper could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
For Americans who have stopped reading newspapers:
The amount of fentanyl that comes into the US from Canada is literally too small to chart.
90% of handguns recovered after violent crimes in Ontario come from the US. https://t.co/61eGbAps7g
Who's killing who again?
I asked every author to visit #eng140 ten questions modified from Inside the Actors Studio. These are Andrew Pyper's answers, from March 18, 2011. For context, his friend Paul Quarrington had recently died, at 56, from cancer. My love to the families.
I’m so very sorry to hear today of the loss of Andrew Pyper. Sending sympathy to his friends in the writing community across Canada, especially to his family and close friends…and with special thoughts to those of you who are his Toronto writer friends.
https://t.co/dt7JPg8mmz
Capitalism's holiday seems a good time to share a socialist version of the Ten Commandments, from Mexican anarchosyndicalist Elfego Lugo's Catecismo de las Doctrinas Socialistas (1928). I think #7 translates as "Do not allow someone who has produced nothing to enjoy your work"
niche Ontario, but my kids are sad because the slushy machine at their corner store has been replaced by a fridge selling something called "beer." Thanks, Dougie.
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