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AK's Ruminations: December 2009

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Sunday, December 20, 2009. As an ongoing travesty of justice in Toronto in shows, Canada’s criminal justice system would beg to differ. Yet even if the Crown is right, Chen’s case raises an important normative question. Should Canada’s laws be amended, as Immigration Minister Jason Kenney recently mused, to protect this sort of citizen’s arrest from prosecution? I, for one, believe so, for I see nothing in Chen’s action that should be considered worthy of punishment under the law. To War or Not to War.

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AK's Ruminations: May 2009

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Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Ain’t No Respect in the Heart of the Campus. V=cJPmv1vTbjc), the students hissed and booed Feder. Some noisily reversed their chairs to turn their backs to him. One student loudly interrupted his speech with a statement about one victim of an allegedly racist and homophobic hate crime. The harassment mounted to a fever pitch, until Feder finally gave up protesting this unseemly treatment and left the podium. This does not make Princeton “unique” in the strictest sense ...Ain&#8217...

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AK's Ruminations: September 2008

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Thursday, September 25, 2008. Response to "This is Your Nation on White Privilege”. Tim Wise’s article “This is Your Nation on White Privilege” ( http:/ www.redroom.com/blog/tim-wise/this-your-nation-white-privilege. Sure has been making the rounds lately, hasn’t it? I’ve been sent it by three people in the past week alone. All right, since the damn thing won’t leave me in peace, I’ll take a good stab or two at it. Believe it or not, it didn’t all. Sit poorly with me. Senator and two-term state senator w...

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AK's Ruminations: December 2008

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Monday, December 8, 2008. I'm a huuuuuuuuuuuge fan of The Onion, though I have a way of forgetting to check it more than once every, oh say, three weeks or so. And I'm not the only one who has that problem. Which is not to say that I disagree with the piece, necessarily. But does anyone else find this article starkly political in tone, rather than comedic? I don't think couching a political attack in sarcastic tones automatically makes it funny.even if it is. Wednesday, December 3, 2008. For all the demo...

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AK's Ruminations: Of Markets and Mores

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Thursday, August 28, 2014. Of Markets and Mores. This post is adapted from an essay I wrote in the summer of 2011 that won honorable mention. In the Institute for Liberal Studies' "Morality of Capitalism" Essay Contest. Who would imagine that an illustrated storybook, of all things, would have shown me the error of my ways? Yet so the story goes. During a visit to a friend’s dorm room in university, I happened upon a copy of cartoonist Gary Larson’s book There’s aHair in my Dirt! Oh, Mother Nature! There...

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AK's Ruminations: November 2008

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Friday, November 28, 2008. A New Take on Homer. I just read a fascinating essay on the moral and ethical implications of the works of the ancient Greek poet Homer. You can read it at. Http:/ www.artsandopinion.com/2008 v7 n5/stevekowit.htm. In a nutshell, the author expresses his dismay and disgust at modern interpretations of literary masterpieces from Antiquity such as the Iliad. More significantly (since I doubt Mr. Kowit's essay has Homer spinning in his grave exactly), should current literary an...

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AK's Ruminations: February 2009

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Friday, February 27, 2009. A Black "Next Great Prime Minister"? When I was asked to contribute a piece to Concordia University's student newspaper The Link. On the role my African-Canadian identity played in my participation in Magna International’s The Next Great Prime Minister. Competition in 2006, I first remembered a passage from Norman Snider’s 1985 book The Changing of the Guard. In August 2005, when I first heard of The Next Great Prime Minister. Well, actually, wrong. At the time, anyone&#821...

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AK's Ruminations: October 2008

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Wednesday, October 15, 2008. McCain vs. Obama: Debate #3 Real-Time Commentary. Ask Obama how he can cut taxes for "95% of Americans" when at least a third of Americans pay no income taxes to Washington at all presently. Is McCain going to try and tie Obama to Fannie and Freddie now? Obama: "The fundamentals of the economy were weak. Even before this crisis." Clever dig at McCain. Ah, yes- the plumber incident. I have this feeling Obama's going to slap McCain down on this one. Wait for it. It to 'em, Jim!

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AK's Ruminations: May 2012

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Saturday, May 26, 2012. The Kids Are Not All Right. The mounting demonstrations have seen vandalism, attacks on bystanders and police and the deliberate disruption and obstruction of classes by some protestors. The movement has staked its claim on the grounds that during the Quiet Revolution, Quebec’s youth were promised that higher education would one day be completely free, and that the tuition hike will risk making higher education unaffordable for many of them. In their midst—and to surmount th...

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AK's Ruminations: The Kids Are Not All Right

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Saturday, May 26, 2012. The Kids Are Not All Right. The mounting demonstrations have seen vandalism, attacks on bystanders and police and the deliberate disruption and obstruction of classes by some protestors. The movement has staked its claim on the grounds that during the Quiet Revolution, Quebec’s youth were promised that higher education would one day be completely free, and that the tuition hike will risk making higher education unaffordable for many of them. In their midst—and to surmount th...