Things That I've Been Lately Reading:

• Sun-tzu, The Art of War (edited and translated by John Mumford)
• Margaret Atwood, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
• Joseph Boyden, Born With a Tooth
• Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce
• Constance Backhouse, Carnal Crimes: Sexual Assault Law in Canada, 1900-1975
• Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
  

All of these and more (i.e. textbooks) are on the go. I'm just taking them little bits at a time, because I can't afford the time to read them all at once, but I also feel like I can't put them off to a time when my schedule will be free and clear for reading. Because, when will that be?

Wow!

As I drove back to OT yesterday, I stopped in Bancroft for gas. And I paid less than $1 per litre! I haven't paid less than a dollar in what feels like months. Whether in fact it has been months, or how many months it has actually been, is nebulous.

See, there are good effects of the global economic meltdown. Personally, I am sort of in favour of high gas prices (though I wish it was through taxation which benefits government coffers and not via enriching polluting oil companies), because it better reflects the real environmental costs of fossil fuel use. However, I am sort of doing my part by traveling back country and staying off highways, where high speeds result in both increased emissions and fuel burned (is this different or the same? I'm not exactly sure). Anyway, as a somewhat poor student, I was happy for the reduction in price.

Best Case Today

Bastard v. Smith (1838), 2 Mood. & R. 129.

I'm not kidding. It's a real case.