1. “Legacy of War With Perfectly Made Beds” by Amanda M. Fairbanks | GOOD Blog
Saturday marked the seven-year anniversary of the Iraq War. To commemorate the dubious occasion, The New York Times Magazine presented a heartbreaking photo series of the perfectly preserved bedrooms of soldiers killed in action.
2. “Freedom’s Wrong Turn in Afghanistan” by Eric Mang |The Mark
Mang quotes American historian Howard Zinn as an entry point to discuss Canadian complicity in Afghan torture: “How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
3. “Canada ‘not closing doors on contraception’, PM declares” by Jane Taber | Bureau Blog
This week, Prime Minister Harper flip-flopped on the exclusion of contraception from his maternal health initiative for the developing world. On Thursday, NDP Leader Jack Layton joined a Parliamentary backlash against the plan’s apparent omission of birth control. Yesterday, Harper retrenched his position. Contraception is still on the table, the PM said, “But we do not want a debate here or elsewhere on abortion.”
4. “AP goes the extra mile to correct decades-old photo caption” by Craig Silverman | Regret the Error
From the department of better late than ever: the Associated Press has issued a correction for a sixty-five-year-old photo that was thought to depict World War II’s hellish Bataan Death March. A complaint from an eighty-seven-year-old US Army vet provoked the AP’s laudable investigation of the error.
5. “The irony of Wente, opinions, blogs and gender” by David Eaves | eaves.ca
This Wednesday, Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente published a piece called “Why are bloggers male?,” in which she stated that she doesn’t blog because “It’s more of a guy thing.” Eaves scrutinizes the statistics in her column and suggests — surprise! — that the blogosphere is actually fairly gender neutral.
6. “Beck and Palin: ‘Violence is Not The Answer’” by Ari Melber | The Notion
Responding to “fringe” elements that advocate armed resistance against the US government, Fox News commentators Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin have decried violence as a solution to right-wing outrage. What’s next, Ronald McDonald and the Burger King coming out against french fries as a delicious snack?
7. “Grieving on Facebook” by Julie Hanus | Utne Daily
Is there an appropriate way to mourn the dead online? Facebook thinks so. “Memorialized” profiles of deceased users have become a place for their friends to gather, share stories, and grieve together.
8. “Baby boomers sit atop a ticking pension time-bomb” by Max Fawcett | This Magazine
A crisis is looming for the Canada Pension Plan. When baby boomers retire, the system will be stretched to its absolute limit. But rather than plan for this eventuality, boomers are apparently content to pass the buck to the next generation. Lucky us.
9. “A whole lot of ‘kvetching’ going on” by Rick Salutin | rabble.ca
Tune into the Canadian or American media, and you’ll hear a lot of complaining about “broken” government. Salutin takes an unconventional approach to this topic by claiming that the democratic system hasn’t collapsed: rather, it was built broken.
10. “Congrats Seth!” by Peggy Burns | Drawn and Quarterly
Seth, the great Canadian cartoonist, illustrator, and friend of The Walrus, has been nominated for a National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award in the “Best Graphic Novel” category for his work George Sprott. Congrats, Seth! And keep an eye out for The Walrus‘s Readers’ Choice Cover Contest featuring his artwork, coming to walrusmagazine.com tomorrow.
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