[PHOTO] A Bird's Eye View of Toronto's Downtown, looking east

This bird's eye model of Toronto located in the foyer of Toronto City Hall is lovely. Originally built in the late 1980s, this needs to be fully updated.

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about the process of journalism.


• Crooked Timber features a confusing critique of Clinton from the left.


• The Dragon's Tales notes the presence of Roman coins and at least one Persian mathematician in ancient Japan.


• Joe. My. God. notes that the Republican Party has halted preparation for a Trump victory.


• Language Hat reports on a poetic new classification system for the history of English.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on one improbable defender of Trump.


• The New APPS Blog studies North Carolina as a subject for an academic boycott.


• Torontoist reviews the Nuit Blanche just past.


• Window on Eurasia argues that the West is weak in relationship to Russia.

[VIDEO] "Mykki Blanco recites ‘I Want A Dyke For President’"

"Mykki Blanco recites ‘I Want A Dyke For President’ - A film by Adinah Dancyger" (Watch on YouTube)

Some days ago, my cousin shared Dazed Digital's clip of queer rapper Mykki Blanko's recitation of artist and activist Zoe Leonard's 1992 poem "I Want A Dyke For President".

I want a dyke for president. I want a person with aids for president and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance and I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that they didn’t have a choice about getting leukemia. I want a president that had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who isn’t the lesser of two evils and I want a president who lost their last lover to aids, who still sees that in their eyes every time they lay down to rest, who held their lover in their arms and knew they were dying. I want a president with no airconditioning, a president who has stood on line at the clinic, at the dmv, at the welfare office and has been unemployed and layed off and sexually harrassed and gay-bashed and deported. I want someone who has spent the night in the tombs and had a cross burned on their lawn and survived rape. I want someone who has been in love and been hurt, who respects sex, who has made mistakes and learned from them. I want a black woman for president. I want someone with bad teeth and an attitude, someone who has eaten that nasty hospital food, someone who crossdresses and has done drugs and been in therapy. I want someone who has committed civil disobedience. And I want to know why this isn’t possible. I want to know why we started learning somewhere down the line that a president is always a clown: always a john and never a hooker. Always a boss and never a worker, always a liar, always a thief and never caught.

[FORUM] What do you think about the ongoing American election campaign?

As a Canadian, I have no vote. As someone intensely interested in the well-being of my country's southern neighbour and that of the world, I am very concerned.

Trump is a terrible person who would make a horrific president. That he likely will not be elected is some comfort, but what of the damage wrought to the American body politic? Even if he goes away--if--his supporters will still be around. I am concerned.

What do you think of this all?