I've discovered how to read the text... hilight it with your mouse... and it is pretty terrible. I guess it's a neo-con haven... very militaristic and christian/white supremacist-ish the whole removing the cross from the US symbol being an insult when perhaps keeping the cross is also an insult... it's like the UofA graduation pledge. I was raised Christian and I still have problems making that pledge because it specifically references God, and you can't expect all the students at such a large institution to agree with that, and yet it's a part of the graduation ceremony, and without it, you're not officially convocated. then again, maybe I'm just too 'left' for their conservative beliefs in general...

about the cartoon... so maybe it's okay for someone like that (and I'm not intending anything by "that") to make fun of a particular condition, but can others who don't have that same condition (whether it be a disability, or a skin colour, or a university degree or whatever) still laugh at it? Where do you draw the line? It's like a white person laughing at jokes about black people even if a black person is making them... when is that ok? is it? it happens all the time

Validating your existence and reason for posting (valid in the USA except in Alaska or Hawaii)

You know you waaan'it!

Yes, there is text, which is no better than the ads on the side.

As for the wheelchair cartoon, this is controversial, but in a different way than you might initially believe. The cartoon in question is this:



This cartoon, and many others along the same theme are drawn by this man:


John Callahan, a quadriplegic cartoonist.

It's a bit like The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the Axes of Evil. If it wasn't humour coming from the group in question, would it be inappropriate? Callahan makes fun of the disabled, a group we specifically avoid making light of. Yet, he is a quadriplegic. Does this make the disabled fair game for his humour?

wait, Paras, is there supposed to be text on that site? it's all black for me.

except for the ads... I can't even imagine people can get away with selling "piss on islam" bumper stickers. this is incredibly shameful and ignorant... but perhaps the whole point of the site... and that wheelchair cartoon is TERRIBLE.

Thanks, Mary, but um Leanna (?) had Jere drop off a copy for me. So Thanks!

hey Alison, I still have Sunday's paper, it's yours if you want it

Alison, I think that was Percy's point. Either that, or he's signing up for a telemarketing service.

Oh, and If you hate America or Israel then YOU are the enemy. (Including little tidbits like this.)

Gomez and LeTigre?? no fair!

and P, aren't telescreens what they had in 1984? Where are you that you have one of those?
Man, I hope there isn't one behind my bulletin board, that'd just destroy things...
mind you, then we could form a chapter of the antisex league, or at least wear the sashes and pretend...

Here's a little music news as seen in the Vue Weekly: Lollapalooza is back and running again, as of last year, apparently. This year's line-up includes:

*Sparta
*Morrissey
*Sonic Youth
*Modest Mouse
*Wilco
*The Pixies
*The Flaming Lips
*Gomez
*Le Tigre
*Broken Social Scene

What's the closest it gets to Edmonton? July 14-15, when it passes through Seattle.

And in other news, five days until I'm off to the Shuswaps!