THIS WEEK’S death-by-drone of Abu Yahya al-Libi delivered for my recollection a February 2006 Onion article reporting that “80 percent of Osama bin Laden’s seconds-in-command have been eliminated … [leaving] only 400 of Osama bin Laden’s right-hand men in the organization.” A good piece of humour, that — and yet the quantitative absurdity of a vast second-in-command queue tells us much about a qualitative reality which is the antithesis of funny. | Read more at the National Post.
• 5-6 April 2013 Ka Na Ta Conversations • 7 April 2013 The Roundtable Episode 37 • 13 April 2013 Interview with Shelagh Rogers • 14 April 2013 The Roundtable Episode 38 • 15 April 2013 Ben McNally Bookstore book launch 18 April 2013 University of Toronto Jackson Lecture • 23 April 2013 Steven Wilson
"A good debate is a rare pleasure. I happen to think there is a longing in our day for real debate, “real” meaning unscripted and open and unsanitized and pugnacious and occuring over issues that matter." | READ There’s much talk about debate these days, but do we even know how to do it?
CURRENTLY (RE) READING
· Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse · Bachelorhood by Phillip Lopate
