`Nice? It’s the ONLY thing,’ said the Water Rat solemnly, as he leant forward for his stroke. `Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING–absolute nothing–half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. I rented a canoe this afternoon and spent a couple hours paddling up and down the Rideau Canal (for […]

I’m on vacation this week. It’s my first real vacation in about eight years — when I was going to school full-time, summer vacation meant full-time job, and when I was working full-time and doing school part-time, vacation from work was used to write papers, prepare for exams, and so on. So having this much […]

Queerly Ill: The Rise and Fall of the Illness of Homosexuality (2001) This article traces the development of the illness of homosexuality from its legal origins through its political demise within a framework of social control exerted by the medical profession. The rise of an authoritative medical profession and the stigmatizing effects of its positivist […]

I’ve finally started converting some of my old articles to PDF and putting them up on my website. Here’s the first: *   *   * Devil’s Advocate: Converging claims and the construction of Satanic ritual abuse (2001) The Satanic ritual child abuse panic of the 1980s and early 1990s is analyzed using Spector and Kitsuse’s claims-making theory of […]

Amazon.ca wrote: We’re sorry to report we won’t be able to obtain the following item from your order: Luigi Serafini “Codex Seraphinianus“ Although we’d expected to be able to send this item to you, we’ve since found it is not available from any of our sources at this time. Oh, well — that’s what I […]

(Two posts in one day! When it rains, it pours!) So I was poking around the new amazon.ca site last night, and found an edition of Luigi Serafini’s Codex Seraphinianus that I’d never heard of before. (For those who haven’t seen it, some excerpts from the Codex are available here and here.) This edition is […]

It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. The problem with waiting a long time between posts is that I like to try to post well-written commentary on things that are interesting to people who might be reading this, instead of “This was my day”. But if you wait a while between posts, then the […]