Remember, as Thoreau said, “Read the best books first, otherwise you might never read them at all.” And in this age of pandemic digital addiction, media overload and mass information glut, when most people’s lives are far too “busy” – meaning, they have lost all sense of priorities and spend
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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Rob Gillezeau discusses how public health measures offer better results even in sheer economic terms than allowing an excess of activity which causes community spread. Joan Greve reports on the CDC’s warning of another COVID wave if the U.S. gets careless while
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Covid Journal, March 2, 2021
‘Vaccine panic’ with Canada’s right-wing media and pundits continues. Negotations get more intense between regulators and policy creators concerning a potential ‘internet link tax’ in Canada that would support a broken traditional media in this country. Conservatives have no plan. Should Canada Post be distributing the Epoch Times?
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Casino capitalism comes to newspapers and it sure looks like the dealin’s done!
Newspapering was a great career, fun and pretty well paid too, once upon a time. I’m pretty sure, though, that the whole daily newspaper thing is really closing in on the end of the line now. Evidence? Tom Kent, who led the Royal Commission on Newspapers in 1980 and 1981
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Sliding Into Irrelevance: Pro-Censorship Stance Obliterates Careers – and Minds
The once-great Naomi Klein. I had great respect for her until she burned her very considerable credibility to the ground, by publicly and viciously attacking Glenn Greenwald recently – after he quit The Intercept, for not agreeing to their new policy of enforced censorship, saying Glenn had “lost the thread”.
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Covid Journal, Feb 17, 2021
Today’s topics: a class action lawsuit against chocolate producers using child slavery and discussion about a ‘new’ internet.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Duncan Cameron writes about the fundamental choice between austerity and full employment in developing the 2021 federal budget. And Noah Smith points out that while pipeline cancellations signal the imminent end of fossil fuels, they don’t need to have any impact on job
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #Petrostate of the Province
You know you live in a #petrostate when local city council exec votes to restrict fossil fuel sponsorship and 1) the Premier threatens the City’s budget and 2) the official provincial opposition has nothing to say about it. This is the #CultureOfSilence I have written about — Emily Eaton (@emi_eaton)
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Trump Loots White House, Stealing Jokes
Seth’s team figured it would be a joke if they suggested Trump would brazenly take things out of the White House, but it appeared to happen the same day, which they note in the video.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Saskatchewan Takes Infection Lead With “Personal Responsibility”
If you hear someone talking about “personal responsibility” to get us out of the COVID-19 pandemic, they’re gaslighting you. There’s no reasonable expectation that individuals acting responsibly can end the plague. The only thing that has worked around the world is national/provincial/state coordination from the top down. How's personal responsibility
Continue readingScripturient: Where is Collingwood’s Pandemic Response?
I admit I am stumped. I have been looking online to find something that tells me what Collingwood council has done in response to the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year. I’m looking for real, concrete, measurable steps, things that benefit our community; things that residents and businesses can point
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your year. – Shawn Micallef highlights how the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the refusal by far too many people to follow a social contract – including anti-social leaders elected to shape and apply it. – Owen Jones writes about the dangerous disinformation – spread with far
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The WoLF Media Style Guide – Outstanding.
The table of contents and a link to the full .pdf download. 🙂
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Media Consolidation – Chilling
Just in the market for a newspaper subscription when I looked at the two papers available in my hometown. Yeah. I look forward to the radically different points of view available from these subsidiaries of the same news corporation…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Deep thought
No one could have predicted that somebody’s refusal to accept responsibility for causing another person’s death – and indeed insistence that they’re entitled to avoid any questioning about it – might speak poorly to their fitness to govern a province.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Toxic Individualism Destroying Rural Healthcare in US
This is an example of what happens when a society loses its base set of common values. Healthcare professionals are leaving or being chased out of small rural communities because they are espousing the evidenced based protocols (wearing a mask) that are based on the best available medical knowledge during
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Covid Journal, December 11, 2020
Tracking the Covid bonanza; Alberta is in trouble.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Suzanne Moore – Why I Had to Leave the Guardian
Go to unherd for the full article. It is brilliant. “This also might explain some of the utter gender gobbledegook we run about how HRT has taught someone to cry and all categories are porous. Whatever. As a feminist, I have limited interest in all this, in the holes
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Guest Post by Cam Westhead: COVID-19 public health advice – armchair epidemiologists need not apply
By Cam Westhead One of the first things I learned in nursing school was not to panic during times of crisis. Medical professionals are trained to act like a duck – appearing calm on top of the water but paddling like mad underneath. Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Fun Videos
I remember when that video was new. And here’s a new video that is both hilarious and interesting. Those old cartoons of pitches setting a glove on fire? Way more accurate than I thought. Fun video with a supersonic baseball canon:
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