http://tatlin.com/naivereadings Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:03:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en These cuts to the arts, community services, health, education and so on are not a matter of government paying for the financial crisis. What they are really paying for is tax cuts, just like the cuts in 2001-02. The BC Liberals cripple the ability of government to collect revenue, then ... http://tatlin.com/naivereadings/?p=84 if someone complains about police conduct, they are obviously cooking up a story so that they can pursue a big lawsuit people who won't pay their fare on Skytrain deserve to be shot damaging public property should get you the death penalty the police are always right, but in cases where they aren't, ... http://tatlin.com/naivereadings/?p=78 Looking at the TV schedule (I check periodically to see what's happening in the world of cartoons), I noticed that there is a newly-minted series of Spider-Man cartoons called "The Spectacular Spider-Man", and today's episode is titled "The Invisible Hand". I'm guessing that is no more than a title, but ... http://tatlin.com/naivereadings/?p=77 Michael Geist warns about the copyright legislation due to be introduced soon by the Tories. 30 things you can do about it. The restrictions placed on discourse in order to win rights for giant multinational media companies make this legislation a very bad idea indeed. http://tatlin.com/naivereadings/?p=73 "The aim of the following pilot study is to examine boredom in a community sample of adolescents and a clinical sample of adolescents. This is important in order to examine differences among healthy adolescents and adolescents with mental illness." http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/show/NCT00163865?order=1 http://tatlin.com/naivereadings/?p=72 http://tatlin.com/naivereadings/?p=71 I bought a huge number of science fiction paperbacks at Woodward's, and at the DeMille bookstore. Later I discovered more "underground" booksellers, and much later I moved to Vancouver and bought books at Duthie's (the store on Robson with the spiral staircase), Proprioception, Spartacus, MacLeod's and other places. At first, the ... http://tatlin.com/naivereadings/?p=69 There is probably an infinite variety of possible misbehaviours, and several flavours of both shame and pleasure that occur with them. Where there is not misbehaviour, there can still be secrecy, either by intention, or simply by keeping an experience inside one's self. The child keeps some of his experiences ... http://tatlin.com/naivereadings/?p=70 http://tatlin.com/naivereadings/?p=68 Taking an unfamiliar exit from a familiar building sometimes places me on a street that I do not seem to know. Sometimes passing through a different door leads to a different country, or a different time, with strange dialects and accents, and foreign behaviour. An interruption on a well-known path ... http://tatlin.com/naivereadings/?p=67