Randy | October 21, 2017
“During my attendance at the trial of Peter Mailman, — listening day after day to the horrible details of the murder as they were brought out by the different witnesses; and holding frequent intercourse with the prisoner in his cell, I was led to contemplate very fully and seriously the crime of murder. Nothing is […]
Randy | October 18, 2017
“Our Dark Sentiment du jour presents a documentary film from the National Film Board of Canada. Made in 1990, The Burning Times was directed by Donna Read and was part two in a trilogy on women and spirituality. The Burning Times has been criticized as feminist revisionist history and I can see a reasonable argument […]
Randy | October 17, 2017
Tonight’s Dark Sentiment is Full Circle, presented here as the third part of the National Film Board of Canada‘s Women and Spirituality Trilogy. Yes, I know I’m presenting them out of sequence, but I have my reasons. The mission statement of this collection is certainly a worthy one: A series of three titles investigating the […]
Randy | October 16, 2017
“Twenty-first century human culture worldwide still tolerates murder, torture, and eradication of entire cultures on religious grounds. Before, after, or entwined with all that, we have that covetous constant called greed. No matter the driving force behind it, we’ve proven ourselves to have a tendency to accept attack on dissent, or even attack on those […]
Randy | October 13, 2017
“But darkness came on fast, and the paths of the wood seemed but imperfectly known to the marauders.” ~ Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott Sad to tell, most people with a taste for Dark Sentiments don’t always go looking for it in moonlit forests, ancient basements, forgotten burial grounds, remote moors, hoary caves, or sexual adventure. […]
Randy | October 12, 2017
Unless you haven’t been paying attention, or were born to such privilege that you didn’t have to, you will at least by now have come to the suspicion that the world is not fair, and all people are not created equal. All that stuff about rights to free expression, and all people being “created” equal […]
Randy | October 7, 2017
We’ve all had that annoying relative who insisted in cornering us as children with threats of, “I’ll get your nose!”, ultimately tweaking it and displaying their own thumb protruding between index and middle fingers as proof they’d done it. To the people involved with tonight’s Dark Sentiment, this is even more annoying. “No one is […]
Randy | October 3, 2017
“Spirit Messengers. The term conjures images of animals sent by a higher power to offer guidance toward the right Path. A Google search will turn up reams of pages identifying the characteristics of each creature, along with its “meaning” should it choose to make itself seen to you under a variety of circumstances. “As with […]
Randy | June 5, 2017
This is in response to a piece published 3 June 2017 by Milo Yiannopoulos under the title Trans Girl” Makes No Effort To Transition, Sweeps Actual Girls Track Meets & Brags About It. I invite you to read it and form your own opinion before moving south to read mine. If you’re blind, the profession […]
Randy | May 14, 2017
The events I am about to recount are drawn from personal experience, and played out in a family restaurant located in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. As with my May 2016 piece on Bullies and Their Vital Role in Education, I do not offer this tale as an act of bravado nor an expression of badassedness. Rather, […]