Year in review

While most of us are down (up) with World Cup and Stanley Cup fever, I won't post anything new but instead will entertain requests in comments to my last post, and put up a selection of posts from over the past year (June 2005 to May 2006). Enjoy.

Architecture and culture
Wowing at the new ROM (July 13, 2005)
On the Arabic language (August 18, 2005)
Ahlan Ramadan (October 16, 2005)
Toronto's architectural renaissance (February 28, 2006)

University of Waterloo presents (March 31, 2006)

Canadian politics etc.
A philopsher-king to rule Canada? (July 3, 2005)
Being "Canadian" in a post-modern world (October 8, 2005)
On the (yawn) election (January 9, 2006)
Stephen Harper, premier ministre (January 24, 2005)
Too much rights wrong? (April 7, 2006)

Globalization, Human Rights and World Events
Everyone's talking about Africa (July 4, 2005)
On democracy in the Middle East (September 1, 2005)
What we can learn from Katrina (September 2 2005)
To drive or not to drive: that is not the question (September 28, 2005)
On human rights in the Western world (November 5, 2005)
Two cups of coffee (December 1, 2005)
Much ado about newspaper cartoons (February 1, 2006)

Iraq
Gwyn on America's new quagmire (June 28, 2005)
On Iraq's body count (July 19, 2005)
Revisiting the Iraq war (January 20, 2005)
"Who's your Baghdaddy?" (January 27, 2005)

Islam and terrorism
On terrorism (in Europe) Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (July 7-9, 2005)
Another day, another blast (July 23, 2005)
Rushdie on a 'Muslim Enlightenment' (September 15, 2005)

Law and law school
1L, Day One (September 7, 2005)
Crème de la crème (September 19, 2005)
Some quick notes (December 13, 2005)
On bloody legal research (January 30, 2006)
Universities: public or private? (April 1, 2006)
Why am I still stressed? (May 4, 2006)