This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Shree Paradkar laments the folly of making the same mistakes over and over again throughout the course of a continuing pandemic, while Crawford Kilian offers his own list of lessons we should have learned by now. And Andrew Nikiforuk provides some suggestions
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Accidental Deliberations: On voluntary efforts
The past few days have seen the emergence of an effort to build up self-reporting capacity to fill in where provincial governments are choosing to be wilfully blind to COVID caseloads – as well as a response questioning whether people should be willing to provide information to that project. Now,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Rumours of Coups
I’m getting weary of the recent deluge of articles and op-eds about secessionism in America, nascent civil war, violent unrest. Then I came across a piece in today’s Guardian written by Laurence H Tribe, professor emeritus of constitutional law at Harvard and venerable Supreme Court advocate. Mr. Tribe is
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: The Buffalo Commons
In a world riveted to violent natural catastrophes – hurricanes and tornadoes, floods and droughts, heatwaves and wildfires – slower moving calamities are easily overlooked. Canadians don’t dwell on the Ogallala acquifer or the American Great Plains, the US grain belt and its decline. It was ten years ago
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – CTV reports on Alberta Health Services’ recognition that tens of thousands of the province’s residents project to suffer from long COVID. Alex McKeen reports on Ontario’s missing health care workers as the Omicron variant runs rampant, while Enzo Dimatteo examines the potentially catastrophic
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Everyday America
Somber talk for New Years Day. The editorial board of the New York Times paints a picture of a republic in peril. Jan. 6 is not in the past; it is every day. It is regular citizens who threaten election officials and other public servants, who ask, “When can
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ryan Cooper highlights the reasons to be careful about any COVID minimizers seeking to declare the Omicron variant as too mild to cause problems for our health care system. Ryan Patrick Jones reports on the choice of Ontario (and other provinces) to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Tick-Tock. One in Three Americans Say Violence Against Their Government Can Be Justified.
Pretty heavy stuff, the idea of taking up arms against your government. Actually you can find some form of armed resistance be it a full-blown civil war, an insurgency, a local rebellion or a criminal gang* (drug cartels) in any corner of the world, just not our own. Well, except
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Four Science Types on What We Learned in 2021 Across the West.
2021 was a pivotal year for the climate emergency. The change came in the form of hammer blows that smashed the west – drought, killer heat domes, wildfires, massive flooding. Can we even make sense of this any longer? Does Ottawa really get what’s happening so far away from
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your year. – Alex McKeen discusses the implications of the more transmissible Omicron COVID variant – though contrary to the plans of your local murderclown, we shouldn’t take an increased likelihood of exposure as an excuse to let a dangerous disease tear through more people than
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude II
One more tune to end 2021 – wishing all the best to readers in the new year. Counting Crows – A Long December
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: The Case For (and Against) Blue and Red State America Going Their Separate Ways
The Washington Post is wrapping up 2021 with a look at why Blue and Red State America may need to part company and all the obstacles that stand in their way. The article focuses on two quasi-nation states, Texas and California. A survey published in September by the University of
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Riton X Raye – I Don’t Want You
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Review: Four Thousand Weeks
[Oliver Burkeman. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. Toronto: Allen Lane, 2021.]An anti-productivity book, of sorts. In most books that are either directly or indirectly about how we individually make use of our time, the goal is to enable the reader to do more. Now, I don’t actually often
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Betty White. Dead Just Weeks Short of 100.
Betty White dead at 99. I never met anyone who didn’t like her.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: More Good News on Omicron
I think we’ve all seen the pictures of crowded ICU wards full of patients intubated on ventilators as doctors and nurses try to keep them alive. We saw that with the Alpha variant and the Delta variant. The Omicron variant, however, seems less lethal. Researchers think they have the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Rolling Stone’s New Years Eve Missive
I never expected Rolling Stone magazine to close out 2021 with an “end is nigh” message but these are curious times. The headline couldn’t be more dramatic: “The Fuse is Blown, and the Doomsday Glacier is Coming For Us All.” A few weeks ago, scientists participating in the International
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: All She Can Do Now Is Sing
Sammy “the Bull” Gravano openly admits he personally murdered the better part of a dozen guys and participated in many other killings. Did he get the chair? No. Is he rotting away in some supermax dungeon? No. He’s got a YouTube channel and book contracts and he’s doing just
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Dan Diamond reports on the shortage of health care workers as the fifth wave of COVID crests in the U.S., while Carl O’Donnell and Ahmed Aboulenein report on the escalating number of children being hospitalized with the coronavirus. Robyn Urback warns that our
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