Many years ago a popular comedy TV show - Laugh In - regularly presented Polish jokes. No other ethnic identity got this treatment. All my grandparents emigrated to Chicago from Poland. I didn’t see anything wrong with it. I was used to Polish jokes being made and didn’t take it personally. The nature of a Polish joke was based on the idea that Poles were stupid. It took years for me to experience those jokes as offensive. No other ethnic group was ever made fun of about intellect. And then I got irritated. Sometimes a clip from Laugh In was played 30 years later. Polish jokes were repeated and people still laughed. And then I went from irritation to anger. Thirty years later people were still laughing. But nobody in my Polish family was upset by them. This was even more disturbing. As the youngest person in my family, I was, for me, effectively silenced because I would be challenging them. So the message of being submissive was effectively passed on.

This lady is insane

Great video.

This was fantastic! Libraries and ukuleles--two of my favourite things!

Great interview! What Matt's said about Ellen is SO true! In '97, it was still major for someone to come out; it was in the news for weeks.

A very intelligent conversation, a well informed moderator.

She had the greatest voice I’ve ever heard - her version of Poulenc’s Amen is absolutely amazing and a blessing from God through Jessye’s remarkable voice.

public libraries are the backbone of our towns

It was ghostwritten by a professional writer according to the Free Press.

Her artistry is extraordinary, and so is her intelligence and wit. What a joy to listen to her, speaking or singing. Truly a great woman in so many ways. Hers is a memory to be blessed always.

What a wonderful conversation! Thank you Elamin and Tommy. I really enjoyed the talk about the writing and how it grew from a sequel to what it became.

Her chapter on the Great Pyramid is horrible. There is absolutely no evidence that Khufu built it

She is fascinating, love to hear her speak.

I love Brian

I like Charlie too, eh not in that extent, I knew him from QAF, yeah he is good but those actors in QAF, they are good, yeah I hope he come to China

Legend 🎙👑 Michie

God bless both of you.

So glad this was recorded and available for those of us who couldn't attend! Thank you. "Every poem has ancestors."

Ummmm the name is kinda long 😅

My daughter forwarded this interview to me, and I watched it and learned about her life. Fascinating, and her sense of humor was so wonderful. What a voice! I love Opera! ❤️ You're now singing to the angels above, and we have the sweet memories.

The Human rights of corporations replaced the divine rights of kings.

....soo...uh ...when we beginning ithat LandBack? (Also thanks for pronouncing this for me. ALso where the heck is this library?)

I feel like the example he gives to illustrate the dilemma about whether a professor should be allowed to use their position as teachers to broadcast their own political opinions is kind of... weak. Well, not that the example itself is weak, but I feel like there is no real dilemma there. First of all, who decides what is an event of sufficient magnitude that a professor is entitled to start using the classroom as a platform for their politics? There are people who feel like we're constantly in a "ticking time bomb" scenario about any number of political issue. Animal rights, global warming, terrorism, systemic racism, transgender rights, etc. That's, in fact, typical in politics. It was part of the War on Terror mindset and it is certainly part of the woke mindset: any delay in the expansion of transgender rights or recognition is the possibility for another trans kid to commit suicide or be attacked and so everything has to be done for yesterday. Including this "exception" would basically give license to any professor who feels very strongly about something to use their position to launder their opinions to a captive audience. Secondly, let's take a moment to consider the other party to this transaction: the students. What is the school's obligation to the students? It's to provide them with education in the field they have selected. If I'm there to learn maths, I expect the professor to use their time to teach me maths. I may agree with their political opinion. I may be one to be very happy and supportive of their decision to not do "business as usual", but some other students may not, and they have a legitimate expectation that the professor observes adequate professionalism in attending to their duties as professors. This is simple lack of professionalism. People of any profession may conclude that they ought to skip work or dedicate their work time to other activities than that for which they are being paid because a greater cause warrants their attention. That's a personal moral choice. But if one choses to vacate on their professional obligations, then it follows that they can legitimately be removed from the position they occupy in their professional capacity.

Very good all around. Norm Finkelstein, at the end you talk about the ideas of slavery and women as second class citizens being resolved; I beg to differ. Today we have wage-slavery, which amounts to the same thing as slavery, when people are FORCED to work for such low wages that they have no time for anything but work in their lives - meanwhile others have 3 or 4 houses etc. That is actual slavery. When the number of women being raped and murdered is at the levels that it is, not to mention daily beatings, etc. -- we do NOT have equality for women, who are even being bought and sold. So on a factual, internationally true scale, we do not have "equality" for women.

Who Vladimir Zelensky is? A drug sniffing clown that’s who he is😂 this book is not even good for ass wiping

I love her

Yoo-hoo! Jeanne! It's me, David! The guy with the dirty-blonde pony-tail at the Narayever...

She was truly a wonderful lady. I only met her once but she was absolutely charming. My favorite story about her was when she was appearing at Covent Garden in London. The set was all built and, during a rehearsal, she had to enter through a door upstage. The door was 'slightly smaller' than she was so she couldn't get through. After a few attempts, the director suggested 'Ms. Norman - is it possible you could enter sideways through the door?'. Her response 'Honey - I don't have a 'sideways'!!!! Love it

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Wonderful interview, very enjoyable.

yess <333

Norm's bogarding the mic in this one.

Celebrating the Eva Braun of Ireland

I certainly hope that this Host can can be permanent Shes Highly intellectual and Cute in Her Glasses.Believe It or Not I even Love Watching her Toe Wiggle in Shoes.Yes Strange but True 🙂

Harvilla wrote Cindy Laupers version of When u were mine is better than Prince's one. Well, it's not even close as good. It's one of the most popular Prince songs and it's impossible to make a better version

Her books are worth reading. Why deny yourself? What a shame to think boycotting them would have any effect on Israel/Palestine.

I am reading Renzetti's book and am barely into it before I recognized so much in it. So disturbing, the info in it, but also how much fun Renzetti is to read.

She’s an antisemitic dilettante. Boycott her books!

Very nice conversation. Good to find after having just finished the book this evening, and wanting to hear more about the author and his vision. Whew!

wonderful reading, thank you. i just bought the book. Roth is one of my favourite novelists. The way he captured the awkward moments of human interaction demonstrated he had a unique ability to detect invisible signs, feelings and gestures and describe them with all the mysteriousness with which they were initiated.

Thank you so much Eleanor, Keiron and everyone at the Toronto Public Library for this humane yet questioning interview about Joseph Roth, an author whose novels and collections of his reporting have done so much to make the Europe and world of just before my own lifetime so real for me. The loss to alcoholism of such an important, insightful novelist and chronicler of his times in the summer of 1939 , of all years, might well seem tragic at first, but knowing as we do, believers and secular people as we may be, what was about to happen in Europe and the world, perhaps Mr Roth's rejection of the evils of our world by drinking himself to death that summer should stand as a rebuke to us for all the evils we see and tolerate while busily going on with our own lives regardless.

there is something so genuine about the care Emily has for others; love her work

56:25

Jennifer: “I, me, mine.” So much self-absorption and not much said about the character she wrote in the book!

Marci for prime minister

Phantastische Persönlichkeit, Künstlerin von Weltrang; die letzte echte Diva der Opernwelt… RIP

Save time. Norm starts @24:54 You’re welcome

I’m her same age growing up in Canada. Also introduced to opera on CBC. MARIO LANZA was great. Still singing tenor since grade 10.

What an entertaining interviewee! Modest and funny!

So happy to hear 2000's this week