Sleepy Old Bear Diaries

We turned over in our heads what we wanted to say about the Prop-8 court ruling and the LGBTQ community’s reaction to it for the last two days, and we keep coming back to the cluelessness of a grade school Field Day — because almost no one at that march had any idea what the [...]

Flight Number: AC8794 
Operated by Jive
 

Departure
Arrival

Airport:
Toronto (YYZ)
Airport:
Sydney (YQY)

Date:
Sat 30-May 2009
Date:
Sat 30-May 2009

Scheduled Time:
20:35
Scheduled Time:
23:59

Terminal:
1
Terminal:
-

Status:
Left the gate at 20:32. 
Estimated time of arrival: 23:48.     

Jewellery worth more than 6m euros (£5m, $8m) has been stolen from an exclusive Paris store in broad daylight by a lone gunman, police sources say.
Dressed in a suit and fedora, the man entered Chopard on Place Vendome and reportedly made staff hand over 15 pieces of jewellery at gunpoint.
The mid-afternoon hold-up lasted two minutes, [...]

No apartheid in Palestine 

Randa Farah (Letters, April Bulletin) says “Israel is not really like pre-1994 apartheid South Africa, it is worse.” Furthermore, she quotes ANC parliamentarian Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge saying that “the absolute control of people’s lives, the lack of freedom of movement … was not the case in South Africa.”
It does not make sense to [...]

The day started alright. Had a very easy trip to Paris CDG. The flight was actually quite short, presumably because of good headwinds. But it seemed to last forever. Started watching Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler, but after about an hour I abandoned it as unwatchable. Just a lifeless performance. No development of … anything. [...]

 There is nothing these days that can ever be safely considered to be permanently beyond the pale, unthinkable, flat-out undoable–and that apparently includes cutting off healthy limbs of patients with BIID. When I first heard of body integrity identity disorder–BIID–in which sufferers have a powerful compulsion to become amputees (hence the nickname for the term, “amputee wannabe”), [...]

I’m still ploughing through Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry. It really is an very fine book, and despite my choice of word in the previous sentence, it is, from a literary point of view, not at all a bad book. The problem is content. It is simply sickening to read how Leftist lawyers and academics have [...]

I have always banned Wikipedia. As of today, its use will be a hanging offence. You will fail the course if you cite Wikipedia in any of your work for me.
Read and be instructed:

Wikipedia may be a fantastic resource, but any savvy Internet user is aware of its limits. Edit wars, entries made and modified [...]

… a t-shirt …

                         I’m Muslim. Don’t panic.
 
I managed not to.

… from yesterday’s trip to Reims, and three from this morning’s ascent of la Tour Montparnasse.
Here.