Theoria

Having finally crossed off all the items on my previous to-do list, it is time to make a new: write the last two chapters of the dissertation (Mandeville; conclusion) find/select epigraph for Mandeville chapter finish course outlines for F09/W10 (“Animals, the Environment and Law” and “State, Law and Violence,” both first year seminars) hope that [...]

It goes without saying – but, of course, I’ll say it anyway – that no one would have been satisfied with the conclusion to “Battlestar Galactica,” regardless of what that conclusion was or could have been. There are, no doubt, about as many complaints about the conclusion as there were viewers. Some people who didn’t [...]

How it must end: (1) As Adama’s volunteer force attacks the Cylon colony ship, the fleet renews civil war, this time attempting to seize control of the basestar. Both battles are catastrophic and everyone dies down to the last person, human and Cylon alike; (2) Cylons or humans from a previous cycle of history miraculously [...]

Victims of the Montreal Massacre at l’École Polytechnique on December 6, 1989 Geneviève Bergeron Hélène Colgan Nathalie Croteau Barbara Daigneault Anne-Marie Edward Maud Haviernick Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz Maryse Laganière Maryse Leclair Anne-Marie Lemay Sonia Pelletier Michèle Richard Annie St-Arneault Annie Turcotte Status of Women Canada Measuring Violence Against Women: Statistical Trends (StatsCan) National Clearinghouse on [...]

Evidently I have nothing better to write about than television shows; specifically, Supernatural. With the exception of Dean deciding he will give Castiel an affectionate nickname, “Cas” (I still maintain it should be “Cass”), the most recent episode (S04E05) was significantly more entertaining that than the previous. While breaking the boundaries of the fourty-two minute [...]