seanessay.com Some of my best friends are Yankees, but you’ve got to admit: Yanks can describe something, with a perfectly straight face, as “…being downright unAmerican.” Nobody up here can say, “UnCanadian”—not without sounding sheepish. A confident man in Santa Fe once said, “No self respecting New Mexican wants to be caught sounding like a […]
Some Students Agree With Apartheid
seanessay.com Headnote: Last week I linked to a memoir about women being segregated… You surely remember, directly or through history, when much of the world was against “apartheid,” the legal rigid separation of Black and White in the state of South Africa. In theory, in those years, you could have said people with a vested […]
Three Truths in JournalismVille that I Know for Sure
seanessay.com Student Karla Krahn, at the University of Calgary Student Union building, in the Women’s Collective and Resource Center, in a conversation with Sean, “Once you start accepting responsibility, there’s no going back.” … For 2025, I know only three things for sure: One: If laboratory rats can eat it, then it may cause cancer. […]
On Human Capital, OR how the Mount Royal University board of governors Messed Up Royally.
seanessay.com (Time travel note: This story concerns when MRU was still MRC) The BBC once did a story on The Murder That Changed America. A young university student in Laramie, Wyoming, was “gay bashed,” as in beaten severely, tied to a fence, and left to die. His crime? Existing while gay. Question: Was MRC (Mount […]
Little By Little Does the Trick
seanessay.com If I were raising children (or myself) then I would surely point out the insight gained if the child (or myself) stopped to think of the power of Little By Little. Years ago I was a young soldier. This was after eight tracks and before compact discs, a time when a popular pre “video […]
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 […]