Song of the day – April 28
In keeping with my anguished obsession with young go-getters (also known as “envy”, in plain English ), today’s Song of the day, Bad Boys, is brought to you by Laden (aka the more pedestrian “Jim Laden”), a Jamaican dancehall sensation not much older than 23. (On this topic, had everyone but me realized that T-Pain was only [...]
Blanche and the bike: a photo story
Slide 1: Blanche Rousseau-Drapeau is 8 years old. Three years ago, her family moved from Sherbrooke to Park Extension, in Montreal. The only white kid in her new school, Blanche was picked on a lot. (It didn’t help that in French, “blanche” means “white.”) Her mother says she became fearful and remote, a ghost of herself. [...]
Pirates and crooks
As the world’s attention is consumed by fears of a swine flu pandemic and recaps of Barack Obama’s first 100 days, a Somali teenager has become the first person to face piracy charges in a US court for over a hundred years. Abde Wale Abdul Kadhir Muse was part of the group of four pirates who tried to hijack a ship off the [...]
