Underground Anti-Gay Activism

I guess Canada has its own branches of violent bigotry. Here is a group in Kingston, Ontario chasing gays out of town.

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We are a small but dedicated group of Kingston residents devoted to removing the scourge of homosexuality in our city. We know you and have been following you for the past several weeks and we wish for you to leave this city, before it is too late, for you. This will be the first of many reminders, each escalating to higher and higher levels of harassment and derailment. Since we have nothing personal against you, only against your sexuality, we suggest you move to more conductive climes like Vancouver, or preferably San Francisco.

Our base, head office in Deep South, has been energized by the recent US Supreme Court decisions legalizing same sex marriage. We feel that unless homosexuals reconvert to heterosexuality that life under this planet, under the umbrella of our Lord Jesus Christ, will become unbearable. Having observed you, we feel that you are committed lesbians unlikely to convert, hence this (first and only) gentle attempt to make you move.

If you do not, and take this letter to police, as we expect, we will know about this, since we have contacts in Kingston Police. Our efforts to relocate you will escalate. We wish to avoid this scenario. We are primarily non-violent, but use violence surgically to persuade people. We hope you understand without us painting too lurid a picture.

-- Anonymous letter

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J. G. Ballard

Christopher Hitchens is reviewing the work of J. G. Ballard.

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As one who has always disliked and distrusted so-called science-fiction (the votaries of this cult disagreeing pointlessly about whether to refer to it as “SF” or “sci-fi”), I was prepared to be unimpressed even after Kingsley Amis praised Ballard as “the most imaginative of H. G. Well’s successors.” The natural universe is far too complex and frightening and impressive on its own to require the puerile add-ons of space aliens and super-weapons. The interplanetary genre made even C. S. Lewis write more falsely than he normally did. Hearing me drone on in this vein about thirty years ago, Amis fils wordlessly handed me The Drowned World, The Day of Forever, and, for a shift in pace and rhythm, Crash. Any one of these would have done the trick.

-- Christopher Hitchens, “J. G. Ballard: The Catastrophist” in Arguably

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Cable TV

It appears that Time Warner Cable will not carry CBS and the Showtime channel. I guess it is a good thing that we never made the switch to Time Warner. I would have hated missing the rest of the final season of "Dexter".

{ONTD}

Family

I see Pop has some new pictures hanging in his office. Maybe it is from a Seniors' Tour event. It looks like a City Hall setting, indoors. I see Pop's very old face, and I wish I could have loved him more. But I suppose, with him being in the dominant position, it was important for him to show love. I think that emotional capacity was blocked in him, which is perhaps common in men. I also think of mother, and even Jack, and I just wish we could have really loved each other. We were on the same team - us against the world - and we should have been able to love each other.

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