seanessay.com I see that inflation, under Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has suddenly become as bad as back when his father, Pierre Eliot Trudeau, was the PM in 1983. (He was PM from 1968-79, and 1980-84) What makes my middle age a pain, Is seeing stupidity come round again. It was during the fall of […]
Scandal of Schoolchildren Made to Write Mundane Essays
seanessay.com You may have read that old satiric short story about two British gentleman on a desert island who couldn’t speak to each without an introduction. Turns out loving essays is enough of an introduction. At the British Museum food court I noticed a New Age lady setting down a copy of Annie Dillard’s essay […]
Look Mum, a Local Culture
seanessay.com Despite being asked to join, I’ve never been on Facebook. Just as well, maybe, as now “they say” teenagers believe Facebook is for old people. I believe “they.” Besides, a teen in her final year of high school has, in passing, documented this fact in a prose article for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Madison […]
Abortion From Canada, With Love
seanessay.com (The Supreme Court case was in Mississippi) Needless to say, it’s not politically correct, while I’m up here in Canada, to comment on US abortion down there. As you know, yesterday, by appealing to the US Constitution, abortion was “returned to the (individual) states.” Up here, the most I might do is parrot Barak […]
Chicken Soup Meets Carlin
seanessay.com If you wondered and half hoped that the “Carlin” being “met” was comedian George Carlin, then you are in luck. Here’s a link to a review of the screen biography now out, George Carlin’s American Dream. Here’s a link to a respectful essay in my old blog, George Carlin and Diversity. Here’s the connection: […]
Facing an Addiction Ain’t Fun
seanessay.com Never did I think that I’d repeat in my own life the theme of the dark movie Christiane F. A wildly popular film in Germany, the book version was a best seller there. (I enjoyed an English translation) I was disappointed, down the years, at the show not entering American popular culture. I saw […]