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A few entertaining, political reads for the weekend

12 December 2008
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]Surfing around the blogsphere this morning instead of knuckling down to earn my wages, I found some worthwhile reading online - some harsh, some comical, some simply scathing and others entertaining. I thought I'd post a few bits and pieces for your entertainment and, I trust, provoke some thought and debate:

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2008 WCC at Game Nine

26 October 2008
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]As game nine of the 2008 World Chess Championship approaches, Indian Grandmaster and current world champion, Viswanathan Anand was in the lead against Russian challenger, Vladimir Kramnik. The score in this 12-game series at the end of game eight is 5.5 - 2.5 for Anand. Game...

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Smoking inexplicably high in Simcoe County

21 August 2008
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]While smoking has been diminishing across Canada in the past decade, it seems to have a more stubborn foothold locally. While it's entirely anecdotal evidence, I have encountered more local smokers in the past two years than in the previous 15-plus here in Collingwood. Every day I see people smoking, and several times...

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Gelatin-free yogurt

04 August 2008
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]I don't eat red meat - mammal is not in my diet. That means I avoid any products with meat or meat byproducts from mammalian sources - I'm an 'ovo-lacto' eater, meaning I still eat dairy products and eggs (albeit very few of the latter, but cheese is a weakness). That's not a problem for me most of the...

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Selling out

12 July 2008
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]How much money would you take for your integrity? Your credibility? Your soul? How much money would you take to sell out so completely that you were reduced to a public laughingstock and you didn't care? How much so that everything you were, everything you stood for, everything you made in your life was made meaningless...

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The sugar trap

03 July 2008
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]I was reading the front panel of a breakfast cereal this morning - Fibre 1 - noting that it promises "No Sugar Added." I thought this was a good thing, because refined sugar is invasive, added to everything from frozen French fries to canned soup - but there in the list of ingredients is...

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The arrogance of blogging

28 May 2008
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]Is blogging arrogant? Mine is, according to one angry member of council, who bearded me, Monday before council, with some sharply worded comments about how writing my opinions here disgusted him. How dare I think I was so much better than anyone...

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The end of the East End

28 April 2008
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]Well, it's gone: the only independent local commentary and news source has closed down. Ian Adams' East End Underground officially packed it in last week. I found out only when I returned from my week-long tour of the Mexican tequila industry. A real shock, and a great loss.

Adams made a brave face of it in his last...

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A psycopath is at large, murdering our swans - who is next?

08 April 2008
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]I've read that Paul Bernardo started his career as a serial killer and rapist by torturing and killing animals.

This weekend, someone brutally killed five Mute Swans on the Collingwood waterfront, apparently smashing their heads with some sort of club. The swans...

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The king is dead, long live the king...

18 January 2008
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]The king is dead. Bobby Fischer died yesterday of an unspecified illness, in his home in Iceland. He was 64.

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Sixty four. It seems young, but...

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