Archive for February 2010
Middle Earth Newsflash
Go Easy On The New Guy
Always glad to see noob anony-bloggers defying the conformist pressures to make it all all about ‘Me! Me! Me!’
Check out Saint Angilbert’s new blog.
I can honestly say that thusfar, said blog has not caused bleeding from the eyes, explosive decompression of my computer, nor mass insanity. Give it time.
Binks
I’m Offended.. and so what?
The offender in question is the offensive Aussie comedian Steve Hughes (of evil). Here’s more links for those of you who like offending yourselves to go get offended some more. H/t Mercer via Catfur.
Binks
Steynicle 405nd
Shaidle on the HRCs:
“If they fine you, don’t pay;
If they come for you, don’t go;
If they take your computer,
let them have it.. encased in
a freshly poured block of cement.
We have to stop only looking up to people,
and try being those people.”
Section 13: Radical Rock-Throwing
A Rotten LEAF
~ ITEM: LEAF SubmissionJUST Committee Section 13.pdf
~ ITEM: LEAF, is a Canadian legal organization
~ ITEM: GOOGLE: Leaf & funding
~ ITEM: www.leaf.ca
~ THE STATUS QUO-ITES are coming out fighting, in a new submission to the parliamentary Commission reviewing Section 13 of the Human Rights thing.
So now LEAF– or, The Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund– is a radical busy-body group who’ve minded business in many court cases, including some notable human rights debacles.
Their latest intervention is interesting for two reasons.
(1) It’s legally pretty, with all the proper footnotes, citations, and precedent-speak which is part of our legal tradition, even when radical things are being done. The equivalent is a scholar’s paper loaded with the right terminology, bits of Greek, Latin, German, and piled high with footnotes. It’s black tail and tie, with bells on, and partly a comfortable appeal to the lawyerly sort who largely populate parliament and her committee ranks. It shows the nanny-squads are getting worried, and bringing out their big words, and clearest case.
