Month: December 2006

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As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, the use of litigation has caused gay rights to be an incredibly divisive issue that will tear Canadian politics apart for generations. Or not: Prime Minister Stephen Harper has declared the contentious issue of same-sex marriage to be permanently closed. After a Conservative motion calling on the government to […]

Beans and Cheese

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On December 8, 2006

With the semester’s teaching responsibilities successfully vanquished, I can now devote myself (with a more or less sober mind) to the important tasks at hand — namely, writing up a contri

Gay rights litigation has been very successful in our neighbor to the north, with major victories at both the federal and provincial levels (including with respect to marriage benefits. According to oft-cited conventional wisdom, this success should have been a disaster for the gay rights movement, mobilizing a huge backlash and setting the cause back […]

Mmm…. Bananas

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On December 7, 2006

Don’t miss this week’s Tuesday Forgotten American Blogging. The first Tuesday of every month is devoted to an American bastard, with December’s subject being United Fruit President S

Pearl Harbor as Myth and Symbol

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On December 7, 2006
In anticipation of today’s Oracular Presidential Intonations on the Subject of Pearl Harbor and its Relevance to the War on Islamofascists and Their Domestic Appeasers, I decided to take a look at some of the words uttered by previous American Presidents on the anniversary of the 1941 attack. Rather stupidly, it seems, I assumed that […]
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