Just to let regular readers know that I probably will not be posting much for a little while, as my time is required on a family matter (trying to get my brother into a seniors’ residence). Hope to be back soon. Recommend this Post
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Politics and its Discontents: For Your Saturday Consideration
With apologies to anyone (well, almost anyone) who suffers from a reading disability, I enjoyed this, and hope you do too: Fox News is right: Any idiot can read off a teleprompter pic.twitter.com/3S1EE2ky4x — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) August 21, 2020 Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Dismantling Of Democracy
I’m not writing much in the way of commentary these days, partly because other matters require my attention and partly because I feel almost anything I say may simply be stating the obvious, especially at it pertains to our benighted neighbours to the south. Nonetheless, when I see items that
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Americans Do Love Their Snake Oil
Fortunately, people like Anderson Cooper have the real cure: I had to phone a friend to turn on CNN and watch Anderson Cooper mocking with a serious face the MyPillow shyster and Donald Trump stan because it was so LOL and yelling at the TV. BRAVO! https://t.co/A7AYc7aJEj — Antonia Zerbisias
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Know Your Limits
Having worn glasses since I was nine, I learned early in life about limitations. Being myopic meant having to accept that I could never become an airline pilot, play most contact sports (not that I was ever so inclined), be a ‘cool-looking’ guy, etc. Nonetheless, I managed to eke out
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Bottom Line
While the emphasis thus far has been on the fact that wearing a mask protects others from contracting Covid-19, new research suggests that they are also effective in protecting the wearer. The Journal of General Internal Medicine reports that there are two likely reasons for the effectiveness of facial masks:
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: When Pathological Liars Speak
Hold them to account. I've been complaining for four years about interviewers not fact-checking Trump to his face. In the past few weeks, we've gotten some good evidence that this is not only necessary in principle, it actually works. My video this week: https://t.co/VJdortztoR pic.twitter.com/SFMDWdiPyZ — Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: O Brave New World
I have reached the point in my life where whatever optimism about the future I might have once held has given way to a searing, even corrosive pessimism. Looking at the world as it is would seem to preclude any other position. And yet… There are still those among us
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On The Covidiot, Anti-Masker Cohort
Those who read this blog with any regularity will likely know that when it comes to those who refuse to don masks as their contribution to our collective safety, I have only withering contempt. It is a contempt fueled by the fact that almost no medical condition exists precluding the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Too Quick On The Draw
Newly-released bodycam footage of the arrest of George Floyd reveals he was in a blind panic when officers drew guns on him. His revelation that he had been shot in the past suggests he was suffering from a form of post traumatic stress, which would explain his resistance to the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: I’m Sure It’s All Just A Big Misunderstanding
The Keilbergers probably just really like Bill Morneau. But you be the judge: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Some Days, I Truly Despair
Mendacity, the constant litany of lies that defines Donald Trump, is one thing, but when the Incompetent-In-Chief extols people who believe that illness is demon-caused and science is experimenting with hybrid human-alien DNA, the world has entered a whole new level of crazy. Watch this video for context, then read
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The World Judges Donald Trump’s Covid-19 ‘Strategy’
The New York Times offers a report on how people around the world evaluate the response of “the greatest nation on earth” to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Coles Notes version: unlike many Americans, they are not taken in by Donald Trump’s empty rhetoric and outright lies. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: From Beyond The Grave
It’s been 12 years since George Carlin left us, yet the ensuing years have made him even more relevant than he was in his day. The following video uses his profanity-strewn upbraiding of the system to good effect, I think you will agree. This video is completely devastating for Trump.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Makes Sense To Me
I get the sense that Jonathan Pie is a tad vexed about government irresolution and people’s stupidity when it comes to the wearing of masks: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Benighted Among Us
If you read this blog with any regularity, you may know that I hold in absolute, unmitigated contempt those who refuse to wear a mask. When hearing and reading about such people and their myriad of contrived (i.e., absurd) reasons for non-complance, I am almost tempted to believe that the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Lincoln Project Strikes Again
I have to say I am quite enjoying the output of The Lincoln Project. As noted by Wikipedia, it is an American political action committee formed in late 2019 by several prominent Republicans and former Republicans. The goal of the committee is to prevent the reelection of Donald Trump in
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Pretty Basic Stuff
But how much better off everyone would be if they just followed these basics: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Thought For The Day
Amen. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Another Disease Is Spreading
The affliction, manifesting in a steadfast refusal to wear a mask, appears to arise from a combination of idiocy, sociopathic indifference to public health, and just profound ignorance. And the fact that it is spreading in Canada (the Americans being a lost cause) pains me deeply. With our culture and
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