First Light Candle Art
This is the place to get candles. Wendy and Denis Bateman make all beeswax candles in a variety of shapes and scents. Great people with great products! Still putting up some Apple Quicktime twirly pictures but don't let that stop you from checking out the site.

Ace Leather Goods
I added several new bags for my friends Andrew and Kathy. They have great soft leather handbags, luggage, briefcases (I own one), etc., as well as tooled leather. Handmade by actual people. Great stuff.

Now some things on a more serious note.

The Kootenay School of Common Sense

On June 3, 1935, the "On To Ottawa Trek" began in Vancouver. They would take their grievances to the capital and lay them at the door of the aloof Conservative government of Prime Minister R.B Bennett. Scrambling on freight trains, they "rode the rod" eastward, only to be met by an army of Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Regina city police assembled there by "Iron Heel" Bennett.

Sixty-six years ago, on July 1, in an action commonly described afterwards as a "police riot," the authorities ambushed the Regina protest rally with horses, tear gas, pistols and clubs; driving terrified indigent workers into a sports stadium; detaining them without food or water, behind a cordon of barbed wire and machine guns.
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As the titans of "turbo-capitalism" slam history's clock into reverse, returning us to the days of extreme class polarization, the pioneers are there with us, lighting the way forward, through clouds of cynical newspeak, toward community and social progress, the authentic Common Sense Revolution.

thanks to wood s lot

Suing the Christian Coalition

Lisa Sutton, suing Christian Coalition: "It's hard for somebody to believe that in [the year] 2001 people that are still entering through the back door ... That African-American people are still having to enter through the back door. They're having separate facilities."

A dozen current and former employees are now suing the Coalition--alleging there is no difference between the Coalition today and the Jim Crow South of the 50s.

thanks to wood s lot

And on a lighter side:

The Gallery Of "Misused" Quotation Marks

You've "seen" them.

Maybe on a sign at the "grocery" store, maybe in an ad in your "local" newspaper. Perhaps even in a "memo" that circulated throughout your company.

They're quotation marks, and they turn up in the strangest of places.

thanks to follow me here...

We Are The Cork Dolls

Celebrity Hangman

both of the above thanks to weblog wannabe