Panglossian Notes

Is it awful to remember? Nay.

For some reason I like Jackie Kay likely 'cause she sounds like my aunt annie but maybe because of her enthusiasm between readings eh.

The Edinburgh bookfest has her in their background image on twitter along with Ian Rankin also.

And her reading 3 poems in 2008, I think. I do love the mid one, eh:

Jackie Kay 2008

Benchmarking myself

I’m scheduled to be on Sunday Edition on CBC Radio One this Sunday, discussing the debt melodrama with Jack Mintz of the C.D. Howe Institute, a right-wing think tank. Recorded it this afternoon. Canadian right-wingers just don’t seem as rabid as ours do.

via lbo-news.com

I'll delay my normal 40 k bike ride - it could also be raining on Sunday - to listen to the exchange Doug Henwood notes in the above clip.

I've never thought of Jack Mintz as being a right winger and I've know him for ions. Neoliberal yes and before that term was commonly applied to economists that emphasized market driven solutions as opposed to all others.

For me it may help benchmark what I've evolved to regarding my own chaotic recent economic thinking.