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 […]
Social Media was Scary in 1962
seanessay.com One exasperated child to another: Oh, bug off! Sean to a troll: Click off! Last week I was on the phone long distance to my cousin. She’s pretty and blond, yet not dumb. I mentioned that, thanks to the BBC News web page showing which U.S. states were trying to roll back the federal […]
Jung and Sue, while I Have a Life too
“That tree” had lush branches of green needles sweeping down. “I don’t want to strike a match,” Jung said, “but we should be able to feel around well enough to sleep under those branches, the ground around a tree is always clear, the branches truly add warmth—actually, you’re smaller than I, you might fit the […]
Olympic Dreams Drifting and Collapsing
seanessay.com Values? The Olympics? Fixing the Games? As with the meaning of “education,” or “Christmas,” if we snooze on pondering the meaning of the Olympics then we end up drifting over to the default of other people’s values. Then we lose, as many other minds are “imprisoned” from having known almost only professional sports, or […]
Olympic Dreams Gone With the Bigots
At the Tokyo Olympics, according to a CBC radio documentary, women athletes were discriminated against. Must history repeat? Can we learn? My younger self wrote about “equal rights” in my old blog, so here are patches of old essays. I can never forget her. She was a pretty biathlete who wanted to be an Olympian. […]
When Others Meet Others
seanessay.com Here’s an interlude to my blog pause, in which I don’t post an essay, instead posting my comments on someone’s blog regarding a new science fiction novel (link) where the protagonist is between two worlds, like a Canadian being half Metis and half mainstream. Except in the novel war clouds were forming. I tried […]