BOJAN'S BLOG

It was a dark and stormy night… Well, it was closer to noon on Broad Street in the South End and just before a torrential rain. Somebody actually lives in the little shack, although I never managed to meet the occupant.

He-he-he! You don’t say, Mr. Berlusconi. It would be easier to take him seriously if not for this and this and this and… You get the picture.

What is it with men and killing? And it’s not only backward Eastern Europeans that are doing it – thank you very much. Through my wife’s work, I have a fair idea about how prevalent domestic violence is in our society. If you could only hear some of the stories that women of all ages and from all socioeconomic backgrounds have (live) to tell. Here is a good start to do some research. It’s a .pdf file and it is big.

I’ll try to finish this posting with something rather interesting. The Walrus is a relatively new Canadian magazine that is raising the bar for magazine journalism in this country. Some of the stories are available on-line. This one is from the last issue and it is absolutely fascinating. It’s long. Get yourself a coffee, tea, cognac, scotch or whatever it is you like to drink when you read good stories and have fun.

Yesterday was Bash the Trash day in the South End. Thank you all who came out to help clean our neighbourhood.

I have a few links I really want to share.

About this one I am going to say just one thing: Holly cow! Here in Canada, we are in the middle of a very important election, but come November our American friends will have an enormous responsibility on their shoulders.

This is also disturbing.

Is it possible to run things differently? You bet. Check this out.

This is a photo of Terry Albright, New Democratic Party candidate in Canadian federal elections for the riding of Saint John. So Saint Johners, and especially South Enders, go check it out. I am not going to tell you how to vote, but it is pretty hard not to vote for Terry when this and this are the other two options. There is a Green Party candidate, too. He is a nice guy, but as a party they have this kind of problems which kind of damages their credibility. Also notice the rating of other national parties. If you think environment doesn’t matter, go back and read this, please. Oh, and by the way also read this. Huh!

No more blatantly political postings for a while…

I keep referring to the Zipper as my nemesis. It wasn’t really that bad, but I guess I am just not made of astronaut or paratrooper material . Photographing fair was a blast though.

Well, I think we can crack open a small bottle of champagne because Croatia is on its way to Europe. There are many issues that remain to be resolved and the transition will be difficult in many ways. This is not the same European Union of the late 80s and early 90s. However, belonging to a family of nations build on respect for each other’s differences, human rights and environment will do us ton of good. Here is a story from a Croatian daily – if you can read Croatian, the comments on the bottom of the page are interesting because they show a wide range of opinions. Which is indeed very good. Here is a BBC coverage of it.

In Canada, the federal election campaign is entering its final week. We all knew that Conservatives are mean, but I think we all hoped they are not stupid. You can reason with mean, but it’s hard to deal with the stupid. Well, they just proved us oh, so wrong! They are in fact unscrupulous and stupid.

On a lighter note. We used to devise quite ingenious way of cheating on exams. New technology is wonderful.