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Picture of the Day: Northrop Frye Ceiling
This is a photo of the ceiling in a classroom at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board. The teacher put up his students’ favorite quotations from The Educated Imagination.
Full-sized version of the photo after the jump.
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Yet another great sign from “The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.”
Here are the Bible verses referred to. A comparison to the right wing sentiment after the jump.
12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: 13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. 14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
Pictures of the Day: Oldest Galaxy, Oldest Door
Pictures of the Day: Centre for Comparative Literature
Check out the Frye as Che t-shirts! Must. Have. One!
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Making the rounds via Twitter. . .
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Oy vey.
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The world’s oldest shoe, perfectly preserved, was recently discovered in a cave in Armenia. It’s older than the Great Pyramid at Giza and Stonehenge. You can read about it here.
Rita Leistner: Pictures of the Day
Two photographs featured at the recent “Crucified Woman Reborn” conference at Emmanuel College, May 14th and 15th
Women do not have equal rights to pray in either the Orthodox Islamic or the Orthodox Jewish centres in Jerusalem and Diyarbakir.
April 4th, 2003, Diyarbakir, Turkey. In the photo above taken by me, a woman begs outside the great Ulu Mosque in eastern Turkey. Eastern Turkey is more religious than the more secular west, hence the gap between men’s and women’s rights and privileges is more pronounced. Women are not permitted to pray in the main mosque.
Februrary 15, 2010, Jerusalem, Israel. In this photo taken by Tara Todras-Whitehill, Ultra Orthodox Jewish women protest against a group of Jewish women who call themselves the “Women of the Wall.” The Women of the Wall are fighting for the right to pray aloud at the wailing wall — one of the holiest sites in Judaism — a privilege only permitted men.
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Sarah Palin at a fund-raiser in Hamilton, Ontario, April 15th.
I am posting this only at the special request of Californian Trevor Losh-Johnson, who will be joining the graduate program at McMaster in September and was curious to know how the Palin appearance played here.
Well, you can see by the photo that she’s turned writing on her hand into Christianist shtick.
If you want to know how the Hamilton Spectator covered the event, you can read its headline story here.
Here are the first four grafs:
Hamilton’s NHL ambitions have the support of Sarah Palin.
The former Alaska governor, in town last night for a fundraiser at Carmen’s Banquet Centre that raised $50,000 for a children’s charity, was at the Sheraton hotel in downtown Hamilton before the evening event.
“I’m overlooking Copps Coliseum and I thought, what a great place for an NHL franchise,” she told a sellout crowd of more than 900 people at the east Mountain banquet centre.
“You’re all set up for it,” she said to applause. “If I ever meet the president of the NHL, I’ll put a little bug in his ear,” Palin said.
That about capture it for you, Trevor?
To be fair, you can read Spec columnist Jeff Mahoney’s very funny “sneak peek” at her speech here — which perhaps confirms that satire may now be more relevant than what otherwise passes for news.
Bill Maher on the whole writing-on-the-hand thing after the jump.