I am a lonely socialist living in the most conservative province of Canada: Alberta, home of the infamous tar sands. Apart from graduate work, I take refuge in reading, writing, and watching copious amounts of televsion. You can find more of my writing at my blog Marginal Notes: http://marginalnotes.typepad.com/pj/
After coping with serious illness over the past year, I have accepted the frustration and pain of having to put parts of…
I was recently introduced to the DoGooder browser plug-in which replaces generic advertising on the Internet with campaigns related to green initiatives…
In an article written in 1969, Willis argues, “For women, buying and wearing clothes and beauty aids is not so much consumption…
It has been a time of endings and beginnings for me. A long battle with months of infections came to an end…
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I caught Chris Rock on Oprah the other day, promoting his new documentary Good Hair. Much of the discussion centered around the…
I have been checking out of what I call ‘feel good’ capitalism since I was four or five. Sometimes this has been…
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