General Stuff: General WisdomThis category encompasses General Stuff's thoughts on things in general.Saving the Game of Hockey- March 28, 2004 In the Globe & Mail on Saturday, Montreal Canadiens great Ken Dryden, now vice-chairman of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, offered a manifesto for Saving The Game of hockey. Dryden's essay comes in the wake of continuing complaints from fans and players that detrimental changes have plagued the NHL for the past ten or fifteen years at least; such changes include the issues of expansion, vigilante violence, and an increasingly congested game. Dryden has for a long time...http://blogs.salon.com/0003158/categories/generalWisdom/2004/03/28.html#a173 Bush is "weak on terror"- March 16, 2004 I don't how Paul Krugman is right as often as he is, but damn the guy is good: The Bush administration, which baffled the world when it used an attack by Islamic fundamentalists to justify the overthrow of a brutal but secular regime, and which has been utterly ruthless in its political exploitation of 911, must be very, very afraid. Polls suggest that a reputation for being tough on terror is just about the only remaining political strength George Bush has. Yet this reputation is based on...http://blogs.salon.com/0003158/categories/generalWisdom/2004/03/16.html#a170 Hockey Only Sport That Assumes The Rules Aren't Enough- March 11, 2004 Today, all three national newspapers in Canada ran photos of the Todd Bertuzzi incident from Monday night. Bertuzzi, a forward for the Vancouver Canucks, sucker-punched Steve Moore of the Colorado Avalanche at the end of Monday night's contest, as retaliation for a hit Moore delivered on Canucks forward Markus Naslund earlier in the season. Naslund missed several games with a concussion, as a result of the hit. After punching Moore in the head, Bertuzzi drove his face into the ice. Moore's neck.http://blogs.salon.com/0003158/categories/generalWisdom/2004/03/11.html#a161 "On a Mission From God": The Religious Right and the Emerging American Theocracy- March 10, 2004 http:www.buzzflash.comfarrell0403far04007.htmlhttp://blogs.salon.com/0003158/categories/generalWisdom/2004/03/09.html#a160 Why We Love- March 8, 2004 From a review of Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love: If, as Fisher states, 90 percent of prairie voles stick with one mate for life because they're good dopamine producers and have a sprig of DNA that enhances loyalty, and if norepinephrine automatically floods the brain of a ewe who's on the prowl every time she sees a slide of a ram's face, and those same chemicals burble through the human brain in love, will people one day be able to modify and medicate passions we once..http://blogs.salon.com/0003158/categories/generalWisdom/2004/03/08.html#a157 Getting Married, Biblical Style- March 3, 2004 This is from CJ's Bullhorn. Fantastic stuff. I have to reproduce it here. Isn't this what we're talking about here Isn't BushCo trying to make US marriages adhere to biblical definitions I acquired the following from a friend, the editorwriter is unknown to me. Seems like our president is fudging a bit here, but that's nothing new. The following is, as far as I know, accurate: I don't own a bible to verify this. One wonders if the first legalized divorce.http://blogs.salon.com/0003158/categories/generalWisdom/2004/03/03.html#a152 |