Murmurs quietly seep through the still, suffocating heat of a tropical night
overwhelming the images of savagery and distant machine gun fire
a land where the lush earth is painted red with blood
the scent of death infused with the sweetness of flowers and palm trees
the child’s laugh replaced by his mother’s cries.
A generation of lost souls, unnamed [...]
WordPress has this neat feature where you can see where people clicked from to get on to your page. So you can imagine my surprise when I saw all of these views coming in from the CNN website. I clicked the link, only to find an article on the Turkey hijab ban, and at the [...]
Amazing how this is news from a Muslim country. Having a similar ban on hijabs would be unimaginable in Canadian universities, and rightfully so. Article from the Toronto Star:
ANKARA–Turkey’s Islamist-rooted ruling AK Party and a key opposition party agreed yesterday to co-operate to lift a ban on the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in universities.
The [...]
Right, comrade, it’s the hour of the garden
and the hour up in arms, each day
follows from flower or blood:
our time surrenders us to [...]
Since this has been in the news recently, I thought I should weigh in on the issue, this being my blog and everything. I saw that one of my friends had joined a group on Facebook called “People Against the TDSB’s “Black Focused Schools” idea,” and I ended up joining the group myself after seeing [...]
He’s a high school history teacher in Baltimore. Man, why didn’t I have teachers like that? And slightly off topic… George Habash died! And the New York Times starts off his obituary with this headline. Lies galore.
No one can stop the Palestinians…
“… the Palestinians represent far more than just themselves. Their refusal to submit to the dictates of governments, or to governments’ lack of interest in the well-being of people in general, reflects the desire of billions of oppressed people for identity, freedom, a decent life and actualization of their collective [...]
Too much caffeine and little sleep make for a great combination. Not to mention that just about everything that’s been on my mind lately has been making me stressed or upset. It’s one of those times where I just want to get away from everything for a moment, and not have to think so much. [...]
After two days of being on Canada’s torture watch list, Israel and the United States have already been removed. Apparently it was just so outrageous that our allies be on a torture watch list that the government felt the need to apologize and remove such a terrible mistake. Torture is something China and Syria do. [...]
So far there have been 38 deaths from Israeli bombing since Monday, 100 injured, with 45 of those being children. Israel has already cut fuel and electricity to Gaza, where they are currently in the midst of the coldest winter in several years. As of Friday, Israel has sealed all borders, which will prevent [...]
So as promised, I went out earlier today and took some pictures. I even got my mom’s fence that I was talking about, for your viewing pleasure.
It’s always a little darker and colder once you get north of Steeles. And now that I think of it, you really don’t see a whole lot of people, besides the sudden rush of children pouring out of school in the afternoons. So for just that instant, as they all run home to their fenced, [...]
