Paranoia Still Striking Deep

The paranoid in me keeps saying that you can't have a dictatorship - never mind which nation(s) - without a Depression first.

And there's Professor Krugman over there trying to remind the powers that be that austerity is THE worst thing for avoiding a Depression...and being ignored.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/opinion/krugman-death-of-a-fairy-tale.html

(And the New York Times is shrinking their paywall-free article access from 20 articles/month to 10. This is going to have to be Dealt With by the Net at large some day, yes?)

Media Gaps

You might want to have a listen to the media panel discussion in the April 27, 2012 podcast from CBC's Q. (Which will apparently be active for the next year from that day.)

Something about anglo-Canadian coverage of what goes on in Québec that came up during the course of that panel discussion disturbs me: it may be that we're just naturally averse to knowing what goes on in Québec if it doesn't involve gang warfare or national unity, but I doubt that.

Two questions for the room as a whole to close this entry:

How well-attended was the Montréal rally for Earth Day?

What do you know about the student strikes currently in progress in Québec?

(no subject)

So. I've recycled a TV set, a tape recorder, a VCR and an alarm clock/radio/tape recorder combo-gadget this morning. I saw Nahlah Ayed speak about the experiences that filled her first book downtown at WritersFest this afternoon. And got some further progress on restoring my library storage tonight.

All in all, a productive and entertaining day.