Politics and its Discontents: A Crazed Autocrat

Bleed, bleed, poor country!Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,For goodness dare not check thee. – Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 3 H/t Patrick Corrigan The above quote from Macbeth, along with Patrick Corrigan’s editorial cartoon, serve as pungent reminders of the carnage taking place in Ontario under the ‘leadership’ of

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Politics and its Discontents: Vox Populi

While many will be fixated on the latest soap-opera installments that politics now regularly yields, such as the outrageous behaviour of Trump at the G6+1, or the strange elevation to power of Doug Ford in Ontario, others are not so easily diverted, as these letter-writers demonstrate: As an atmospheric physicist

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