The United States, locked in the kind of twilight disconnect that grips dying empires, is a country entranced by illusions. It spends its emotional and intellectual energy on the trivial and the absurd. It is captivated by the hollow stagecraft of celebrity culture as the walls crumble. This celebrity culture giddily licenses a dark voyeurism into other people’s humiliation, pain, weakness and betrayal. Day after day, one lurid saga after another, whether it is Michael Jackson, Britney Spears or John Edwards, enthralls the country … despite bank collapses, wars, mounting poverty or the criminality of its financial class.

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The Vice-President for Equity of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences is currently posting a series on mentoring on the CanFed website.  My invited contribution on mentoring for equity was posted yesterday as part of the series  (http://blog.fedcan.ca/?p=451), which started earlier this week.  Others across Canada will be posting throughout the end of the month.  These posts vary in their perspectives and strategies on mentoring, and each post has several hyperlinks embedded in the text to guide readers to open-source references.

My three day walk began at the Old Clinic on a Monday, surrounded by people from the community of W-, some of whom I knew.  Others were new acquaintances.
There were people all around me offering support, giving advice and helping out by packing the sleds or loaning out snowshoes, hats, and other equipment.
Before setting off, I shook many hands, a whole line of hands, and as I shook those hands, I looked up into the smiling, supportive faces of friends and new acquaintances. 

The Cree can boast the first comprehensive land claims settlement in the history of Canada (Brody 1981; Carlson, 2008; Hornig, 1999).

I have a pet theory.  Perhaps you can help me with it.  I would like to work through it a bit; to see if I am in the grips of a theory; to see if it is real.  I have this idea that maps are platforms for carrying memes, or units of cultural information.  Those memes are expressed in place names.  In other words, place names are the phenotypic effects of memes. 

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