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30 January 2003  

PipesWatch

Daniel Pipes, who was grudgingly permitted to be heard at York University earlier this week, was interviewed on CBC Radio's The Current this morning. You can hear it here (RealAudio), bracketed by two anti-war poem readings (start 2 minutes in to skip the Andrew Motion wannabe). I don't think it's my imagination that The Current, which is only a few months old, is even more consistently biased toward the left than the CBC usually is. Host Anna Maria Tremonti's antagonism toward Pipes is apparent in the interview. Perhaps that, or the stress of the last week or so, accounted for Pipes' equally apparent defensiveness. Whatever it was, I don't think he won many people over this morning.

11:10 PM |

Blogger on the Run

Best of luck to fellow Toronto blogger (and NDP elections monitor) David Artemiw, who is gearing up to run his first half and full marathons. (Hey, David, maybe you could blog your marathon like this guy did.) Me, I'm sticking to shorter distances this year, at least until July, by which time I hope to have broken 20 minutes in the 5K. Now if I could only get motivated to actually train for these races.

10:05 PM |