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Wednesday, July 16, 2003
The Anthrax Thing
Does anyone remember that Egyptian fellow who died of Anthrax on his way to Canada a few months ago? Does anyone have a link to a story, it would be handy.
Trying to revive this...
I started this, and then abandoned it, largely out of lack of time. I hope to update this a little more in the next little while, as I hope to be able to get to this from behind my firewall at work.
Clancy's new book (whose title I forget at the moment) sounds less than promising. It's about Jack Ryan Jr., who joins some sort of elite anti-terror team.
Frankly, I haven't read a really good techno-thriller in a long while. At least not a new one. The Last Jihad, I thought, was rather stale. The new one from James Huston looks interesting, I might go pick it up at lunchtime tommorow.
I'm going to try and write another culture piece for this weekend. The question is: what?
I've seen Terminator 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean recently, and either of those might be good. But I'm leaning towards writing a review of the Dead Zone (the television show) which, strangely, seems to be the most Christian show on television (and I'm including the terrible 7th Heaven in that statement).
More to come.
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
The Right Man 2
David Frum is probably, and I say this without hyperbole, the greatest living Canadian (though, I think, he might be an American citizen as well by now). If he'd come back up here and run for office, I'd certianly be willing to make a large donation.
If you liked the Right Man, you ought to read his history of the 1970's entitled How We Got Here.
Monday, June 16, 2003
Explosives in British Columbia
I wonder what this was all about. Just like we have yet to hear anything more about the Egyptian fellow who was killed while bringing Anthrax into the country a few weeks ago.
In case anyone was wondering, it would appear that the Federal Liberals have easily won today's by-elections in Quebec. In one riding, it would seem, the Alliance was outpolled by the Green Party.
Chapters and Other Bookstores
Here in British Columbia we're pretty much down to just Chapters so far as major bookstores go- most of the rest have either closed down or been absorbed by the Chapters/Indigo empire.
Is is just me, or does anyone else think that whoever does their ordering must be a real hard-core leftist? Their magazine section is constantly full of left-wing magazines (the Nation, Mother Jones, and stuff much more obscure than that- IE 'the Journal of Women's Studies, Z Magazine, etc., etc.) which never sell, but is almost totally lacking in conservative ones, even those that do sell- such as the National Review. I've never even seen a copy of the Weekly Standard there and other magazines of that type, if they are present at all, generally tend to have only a single copy ordered.
Does anyone know if Chapters/Indigo is the bookstore monoploy by choice or by design? I mean, there must be a reason that we can't have a damned Barnes and Noble open up here.
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