seanessay.com My old communist friend would, I think, relate to my favourite Easter “glimpse.” Even while reciting “religion is the opium of the people” he would know that if the revolution is for anybody, then it’s for everybody. Our religious comrades are part of the whole package. Of course a Marxist can be religious. I […]
Chuck Norris Remembered
seanessay.com A cobra bit Chuck Norris in the leg. After five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died. My life has been enriched by knowing Chuck Norris, and I don’t mean his films. Although I confess I did have, as a gift from a theatre manager, the perfectly tacky movie poster for the only show […]
A Return to Enjoying Public Transit
seanessay.com Being sans car for a few days (I get it tomorrow), I spent today doing errands on public transit: train twice, bus thrice. Nice to connect with downtown again. “Don’t ever get a car,” I used to tell people, “for now I have lost touch with downtown.” On the electric train I admired the […]
The Lesson Youtube Forgot
seanessay.com On my hard drive are a few apps for avoiding Internet advertising. For me, they don’t work. Over in London in February, I was amazed at how often commercials interrupted my feed. A coincidence? A British thing? Back home—maybe I have a worm on my hard drive—the great number of interruptions continued. I conclude […]
Trump Craziness Comes to Canada
seanessay.com We Canadians are normally plain and sensible, but sometimes a wind of madness blows in from south of the border. When the United States went crazy, during the Vietnam years, the editor of the local University of Calgary student newspaper did an editorial for Remembrance Day. He said our soldiers in the trenches in […]
London Reaching for NonRacism
seanessay.com …The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there… L.P. Hartley, 1953 Hello from my London holiday! Do you and I have racism? You might reply, “Not-me!” I might reply, “Not exactly,” because certain justice warriors would say that every man, woman and child raised in North America has racism—regardless of their […]