Over thirty years ago I was in an on-again-off-again relationship that I just couldn’t shake. After months of a variety of attempts of different types of therapies, I lucked into a therapist who walked me through a version of the Gestalt exercise of talking to a chair that ended my
Continue readingExcited Delirium: CBC: Media Sponge for Loblaws PR
The CBC is helping Loblaws try to be big corporate softies. Continue the boycott of Loblaws, please. The post CBC: Media Sponge for Loblaws PR first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Continue readingLife...A Small Spark Between Two Eternities: Radical Islam’s western fangirls
The most compelling evidence for Hamas’s atrocities on October 7 came straight from the source: live video from GoPro cameras strapped to the terrorists’ bodies. Why, all sane people wondered, would these monsters be stupid or crazy enough not only to record their barbarism, but to share it proudly
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Trust Science, Not Scientists – Brian Keating and Peter Boghossian
Chapters 0:00 Intro 8:10 The Multiverse 19:50 Unified Field Theory 30:00 Brett Weinstein & issues with peer review 45:00 Dr. Peter Hotez, RFK Jr, and Joe Rogan 58:50 Who to trust in science 1:16:00 Quantum computing 1:23:00 Laws against Holocaust denial 1:29:00 Brian’s work
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Youth sports: done right, done wrong
After watching a grandchild and other nine-year-olds playing in a Little League baseball tournament, I was reminded about the positive and negative aspects of youth sports. Done right, they’re beneficial. Done wrong, they’re harmful.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your long weekend reading. – Max Fawcett laments that anti-vaxxers and science denialists have managed to control public policy choices in the midst of a pandemic with many more public health threats looming. And Jessica Wildfire writes about the collective amnesia that’s served to eliminate attention to
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Harmful Misinformation
Two threads – one from a retired doctor on deducing misinformation and one from a current doctor frustrated with other doctors who ignore the information presented by patients. We have so many quality studies that vaccines help, that masks are effective, and that Covid can affect many systems long term,
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Into the long weekend: mosquitos and Poilievre and polls, oh my
Ahh, summer is starting at last! MOSQUITOES! pic.twitter.com/wvHI7RLein — Brittlestar (@brittlestar) May 17, 2024 Moving on to something even more biting, I think Pierre Poilievre is now finding there is a downside to being up 20 points in the polls — people actually expect to hear something sensible from him
Continue readingAlberta Politics: The Alberta Advantage? For workers subject to the province’s wage suppression tactics, it’s gone like the wind
What Alberta Advantage? Dr. Stanford as he addressed the Alberta Federation of Labour mid-term forum in Calgary yesterday (Photo: Twitter/Alberta Federation of Labour). A new report by economist Jim Stanford shows how working people in Alberta are experiencing unprecedented reductions in incomes, purchasing power, and living standards. Alberta’s Disappearing Advantage:
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo:The Best Lawn Is Flowers
Why plant grass when you can have this instead? So glad to see that other people are letting nature take its course.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: the hidden hand
If you are a Canadian Jew, or you are one of the many who supports Canadian Jews and Israel, it’s been a bad week. The mayor of Canada’s largest city refused to attend the raising of one (1) Israeli flag at City Hall, because it was too “divisive.” McGill University
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: This Is What They Have Become
Sometimes, no commentary is necessary. Their words indict themselves and their government: Marjorie Taylor Greene: “Why don’t you debate me?” AOC: “I think it’s gonna be self-evident” Marjorie Taylor Greene: “Yeah, you don’t have enough intelligence” James Comer: “Miss Greene, do you agree to unanimous consent to strike your words?”
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
Adina Butar – Whisper
Continue readingwmtc: the propaganda discrediting student protests is sad, frustrating, and incredibly hypocritical
The student movement opposing Israeli apartheid brings my heart so much joy. When I was in university, a similar movement calling for divestment from South Africa played a significant role in the fall of apartheid in that state. It has the potential to do the same now. Yet mainstream politicians
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: May 17, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario calls on Toronto to drop ‘disastrous’ drug decriminalization request #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/8jkjjxyh – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingWise Law Blog: This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from July 24, 2012
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from July 24, 2012 via Wise Law Blog: Developments in Access to Legal Information Online https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2012/07/developments-in-access-to-legal.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Rabid, Unadulterated Hatred
The following is hard to watch, but captures the unadulterated hatred for Palestinians that grips some Israelis as they work hard to stop humanitarian aid to Gaza: The narrative has clearly changed. At one time Israel was regarded as the little country that could – feisty, proud, and indefatigable. They
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