Tag Archives: Rick Salutin

Do you compromise?

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Dave

That’s an ironic headline. Considering it came in a fold-over card weight flyer in the weekend Globe and Mail for State of Israel bonds. Evidently, militarism, belligerence and bad faith negotiating, not to mention illegal settlements, human right violations, and … Continue reading →

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charity is the greatest luxury

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Dave

The poverty industry. Reinforcing destitution and economic ruin wherever it plants its well heeled foot. The spin is all about helping the poor reach empowerment. Ending the viscous cycle.But really, as Thorstein Veblen observed over a hundred years ago, most … Continue reading →

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forty lashes just for a warmup

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Dave

Does the logic of postmodern capitalism no longer work, all the structural Ponzi’s coming home to roost, starting with the subjugated marginals like Greece and moving inexorably into the more bleached white domains of the Occidental heartland. All bubble eventually pop … Continue reading →

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normality of silent running: adventures in immanence

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Dave

Blame it on Spinoza. Spinoza provided the raw material for the abandonment of Jewish messianism and what had been the conventional and traditional religious conceptions that had defined jewish life in the diaspora.Spinoza was the architect of liberal democracy and … Continue reading →

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shall we dance a slow one

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Dave

The American flag floating over every square foot of North America, clear to the North Pole. The ancient ghosts of annexation have always haunted Canadians that reciprocity would engulf the country. To America, Canada is seen as useful, as well … Continue reading →

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a bigger bang: head shots and dumbing down

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Dave

Blame it on bourgeois ethics? Is the successful t.v. series The Big Bang Theory merely insulting in its violence; a violence which may be an endemic cultural trait within middle-class values, that repository of conservatism and arch determination to maintain … Continue reading →

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when my ship comes in

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Dave

Identity crisis. Crisis what Crisis? The debate inside Israel over these issues is passionate and ongoing, but perhaps not too profound. It stays in the comfort zone, preventing an articulation of a coherent definition of its own identity. If the … Continue reading →

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one is too many: giants sailing from byzantium

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Dave

For all his genius,was one Gaudi enough for the world? Well, dim rooms and undulating walls in his apartment houses are a bit creepy to live in; which is essentially the criticism made by the followers of the International Modern … Continue reading →

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listening to the weather on the jersey shore

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Dave

Good men in a storm. Our relationship with the weather is in general ambivalent, but obsessional. The revenge of nature; the risk of apocalytic violence reducing all to rubble, the end of time and a nihilistic promise of a spanking … Continue reading →

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storyteller: the way they were….

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Dave

From a Rick Salutin piece that appeared in the Toronto Star. I am barely old enough to remember this comedy duo written about by the author but I remember sensing their spirit, vulnerability, insecurity, defiance and basic goodness that made … Continue reading →