John Baker’s Blog

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Google playing dirty with employees.
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Say my religion is peaceful or I will kill you.
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Sugar has long been a popular drug consumed and even sold in schools world-wide. But concerns over health, obesity and the risk of diabetes have led some schools in California to institute a ban on sugary snacks. In response to these candy [...]

Dick Jones offers us a poem and talks about the poet, David Harsent author of the collection, Legion.
I think of Akhmatova’s famous encounter with the starved woman in the queue outside a Russian jail during the terror. The woman recognised Akhmatova and said: “Can you describe this?” When Akhmatova said, “I can”, a ghost [...]

Rushdie’s parting advice to aspiring writers was simple: “You have to sit down and not get up until you’ve written some stuff.”
“I guess there are people who can walk around and write,” he said. “But they’re called poets.”
PhillyCom reports on Rushdie’s visit to Widener University
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Robert Fulford in the National Post discusses why art is his religion. The cons and the pros.
. . . we also can’t claim that immersion in the arts will create a lively mind. Art education has produced armies of learned bores. I knew a man who had Shakespeare, Verdi, Beethoven and the rest of the [...]