[BRIEF NOTE] Roundup

[rfmcdonald]

• charlemagne77, in her post "The Cunning of Unreason", takes Cathy Young to task for assuming that there is a moral equivalence between the cultural extremism of the left and the right, and for her unbalanced definition of "right" to exclude herself and "left" as a category to contain all liberals. On a related theme, see TangoMan's GNXP post on the steady infiltration of creationism into the National Park Service's facilities at the Grand Canyon.


• First jhubert, then mhw, have made excellent posts on netiquette, including specific references to Livejournal but containing valuable recommendations on how to interact with people generally jhubert's post, mhw's post).


• And in the print media, the Toronto Star has a brief segment on Prince Edward Island and Irish moss. Over the past 30 years, Atlantic Canada's share of global carageenan-related seaweed production has fallen from 80% of the total to 2%. Why? Changing ecological conditions, but mainly a complete inability to innovate and move into aquaculture, unlike Chile, the Philippines, or Indonesia. Oh my homeland, why do we let you betray us?