Whimsical and retro
Category Archives: things about which I am not ambivalent
My favourite painting at the MOMA
June 1, 2010 – 9:11 pm
I’ve been to a lot of New York art museums recently, with friends visiting. Quite liked the Marina Abramovic exhibition, which wrapped up at the MOMA on May 31. My favourite painting at the MOMA, I think, is Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World.
“Your opinion doesn’t have to be based on facts”
February 10, 2010 – 1:36 pm
According to a Teabagger
Paragraph-level commenting for Wordpress
August 24, 2009 – 7:15 pm
Digress.it is a Wordpress plugin enabling threaded, paragraph-specific discussion on posts and pages
The financial crisis cloud has no silver lining
January 14, 2009 – 9:14 pm
The New York Times has a decent (though it strangely focuses a bit too muich on her appearance and clothing) article on Naomi Klein. One of the things that caught my attention was her interpretation of the genesis of the New Deal:
The New Deal is usually told as a history of F.D.R., she said, but [...]
Ontario launches anti-poverty plan amidst economic turmoil
December 8, 2008 – 8:19 pm
The Ontario government has launched a comprehensive anti-poverty plan that is receing warm reception from advocates like the 25in5 Network for Poverty Reduction. The fact that this has taken place during particularly bad times for Ontario’s economy is all the more impressive, and makes me proud to be an Ontarian–not something that happens every day. [...]