Homemaking cats.
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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nora Loreto discusses the collective trauma which is following from the combination of a pandemic and a determined effort by our ruling class not to limit the harm it causes. And Dan Sinker writes about the impossibility of reaching anything approaching normal
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Fareed Zakaria’s Sunday interview with Paul Krugman
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Taibbi’s Tough Talk
Trust Matt Taibbi to re-open old wounds. In his latest piece, Taibbi looks at the invasion of Ukraine through George Orwell’s eyes. No one is spared. In the last weeks, Russia took an already exacting speech environment to new extremes. A law was passed that would impose 15-year prison
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Steven Woolf examines the inescapable connection between political choices and avoidable COVID-19 deaths between U.S. states. And Christopher Blackwell discusses how the pandemic may never end in prisons where authorities are even less interested in ensuring the health of the people whose lives
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: How Politics is Supposed to Work
This photo shows how today’s politics has broken. 1961. A new president, Democrat John F. Kennedy, takes a stroll with the former president, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, to discuss foreign policy.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Kit Yates discusses how the lifting of COVID-19 public health protections in the UK has predictably precipitated another wave of infections. Natalie Grover writes about the two-year-long battle to get decision-makers to accept that COVID-19 is transmitted through the air. And Catherine
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #SKNDPLDR 2022 Overview – No Certainty, or No Contest?
I’ve posted previously about the loss for party and province that is Ryan Meili’s resignation from the leadership of Saskatchewan’s NDP. And as I’ll discuss in this and posts to come, that factor will cast a long shadow over the new leadership campaign and beyond. But with Meili stepping down
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Zak Vescera looks back at the two-year period since the first COVID-19 cases were recognized in Saskatchewan, while Zeynep Tufecki offers a look at how millions of lives could have been saved in retrospect. Nicola Davis reports on the soaring case levels resulting
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
The Knocks w/ Dragonette – Slow Song
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Caroline Chen discusses the reasons why we’re still waiting for COVID vaccines for children under 5 – leaving the people least able to protect themselves to bear the full weight of irresponsible declarations of surrender against the pandemic. Benjamin Ryan reports on the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Terry Gross discusses how COVID has brought some needed attention to other chronic illnesses. But Sarah Trick writes that the reckless elimination of public health protections represents a betrayal of people with disabilities who face especially stark risks from others’ callous choices.
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sarah Bartsch et al. study the costs and benefits of face mask use, and conclude that even without factoring in improvements to public health mask mandates produces positive outcomes from a financial perspective, while Caroline Alphonso reports on Ronald Cohn’s exhortation for Ontario not to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats playing games.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: How’s That "50 by 30" Thing Going?
The International Energy Agency reports that CO2 emissions climbed a hefty six percent last year. The culprit? Energy prices. Higher costs for fossil fuels, especially natural gas, are said to have driven consumers back to coal. I don’t want to harp but it’s a terrible result. Barely a week ago
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ed Yong rightly questions how the U.S. (like Canada) has come to see a large number of preventable COVID-19 deaths as normal. Hannah Rosenblum et al. study the effects of coronavirus vaccines and find that even reported adverse events were largely mild.
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – The Associated Press reports on the continued disparity in COVID-19 vaccinations between countries which is exacerbating the risk of new and more severe variants for everybody. – David Moore and Donald Shaw report on the threat of industrial chemicals at risk of being
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Now, More Than Ever
With the world oil price said to be heading to $200 per barrel and beyond, with grocery prices skyrocketing, and with Earth on the cusp of runaway climate catastrophe, could there be a better time for our prime minister to get serious about weaning Canada off fossil fuels? One
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – James Tapper reports on the UK’s soaring rates of long-term illness caused by COVID-19, while Tara Madden writes about the utter uselessness of people trying to substitute admonitions toward positive thinking for a plan to help people suffering from long COVID. And
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Putin, the Evil Emperor
Vlad Putin is a malevolent little shit who learned what little he knows of humanity in the dungeons of Lubyanka. His greatest achievement was to persuade Boris Yeltsin to take an immunity deal in exchange for handing over the Russian presidency. Once KGB, always KGB. “If it walks like
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