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Sunday, October 26, 2025

MY NOTE ON BRUCE SMITH’S POEM LAUNDRY

Laundry Bruce Smith Not even the cops who can do anything could do this— work on Sunday picking up dirty and delivering clean laundry in ...

Saturday, October 11, 2025

A FEW SCATTERED IMPRESSIONS ON WOODY ALLEN’S NOVEL WHAT’S WITH BAUM

What’s With Baum, I just started it and so far have only read a few pages. I’ll read on but it strikes me as more of Woody Allen’s shtic...

Thursday, September 25, 2025

A FRIEND’S NOTE ON THE IMMEDIATELY BELOW POST

Your critique of Steven Pinker's stance on Zionism, as expressed in your blog, raises a sharp and provocative point about the tension b...

BRIEFLY ON STEVEN PINKER’S QUALIFIED DISCLAIMING OF HIMSELF AS A ZIONIST

From Steven Pinker in a guest column on his Jewishness and related issues concerning the war in Gaza: “And I am not a Zionist in the sense o...

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

GROK AND I ON THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF ABORTION UNDER U.S. LAW

Me: Is it arguable that cosmetic surgery is a constitutional right rooted in privacy? For example could a statute prohibiting cosmetic surge...

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About Me

itzik basman: I got my B.A. in English Literature from the University of British Columbia ("U.B.C."). I got my Secondary School Teaching Certificate from U.B.C. and my Masters degree in English Literature from U.B.C. writing my 125 page Masters' Thesis on the novels of Mordecai Richler. I attended Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, graduating with my Juris Doctor . After articling and completing the Ontario Bar Admissions Course, I was called to the bar in Ontario. I have practiced law to date in Toronto, specializing in Family Law, Civil Litigation, and Appellate Advocacy. I have pleaded cases in all civil Ontario courts, including many times in the Ontario Court of Appeal, as well as the Supreme Court of Canada. I practice law under the firm name Itzik Basman Barrister, James Rose, my former associate, having died January 23, 2011. I published on line in 2004 my extended essay on "Hamlet, entitled Futility As Tragedy: An Interpretation Of Hamlet". It can be found at Lulu.Com. It was critically reviewed both in Kritikos and Politics and Culture. I live in Toronto.

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