The Democracts mostly don’t mind having a President going out of his mind after being boiled frogs thanks to Trump and Bush. Check out Biden’s rambling answer in a debate. #DeanScream2 ? If you’re not old enough, look into what happened to Howard Dean for the 2004 campaign. Record players
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Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Build a Wall? Canada’s Response to Trump
Donald Trump’s main export to Canada has been a sense of national smugness, that his outrages and absurdities could never find purchase here. But it would be an act of monumental self-deception for Canadians to believe that we are an island set above the rage bubbling across the world.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: What’s Going On?
Half of the kitty cats just walked by to sniff my hand only to keep walking as I started to pet them, so they wouldn’t be mistaken as being too interested in more petting. Charlie just came up to me again, and left when I tried to pet him. In
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: T-minus 40 days until Canada votes…
It’s official! Parliament has been dissolved. And the writs have been, proverbially, dropped. Canada’s 43rd General Election is underway… and today is Day 1. T-minus 40 days until Canada votes. To find your riding, and more information about how and when to vote, etc., visit Elections Canada.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Fahrenheit 9/11
Has life been normal since then? It’s quite amazing we’ve habituated to the new security/surveillance state, not to mention a further divide between the rich and poor. Things are fine I hear…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Anarchism – Definitional Clarity?
Just who is anti-authoritarian and who isn’t? Like most topics, the devil is in the details, as the cleavages between the various sub groups of anarachists creates a great deal of tension within the movement as a whole. “Some anarchists are upset by the idea of taking any authority
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Case for Transitioning Toward Socialism – Chris Wright
I do like me some socialism, as I do believe it is the tonic that will address some of the societal problems we are currently experiencing. I think tackling the inherent problems socialism bring with it might be good for a change. It’s like changing the government every so often,
Continue readingNotes on Democracy: Inhabiting the Radical Middle
While I take an active interest in politics, and have always been a member of a political party (sometimes two), I no longer get directly involved in election campaigns. My reason is one that many people share—politics just seems to bring out the worst in people. Enter the world of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Alberta UCP Associate Minister Grant Hunter Quotes Nazi Scientist in Media Release
“MLA Grant Hunter, the province’s associate minister of red tape reduction, wrote, “Wernher von Braun said, ‘To conquer the universe you’d have to solve two problems: gravity and red tape.’ We’ve made it clear that we are committed to reducing red tape in Alberta. Lots more to come…” The quote
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Democrats – Better to lose to the unhinged Right, than the moderate Left.
Paul Street pulls few punches as he describes the US Democrats using Sheldon Wolin’s terminology as ‘the inauthentic opposition’. It must be hard for the Democrats to be in opposition to the republicans when you represent the same set of business interests… “Wolin called it. A nominal Democrat
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Podcast on Sunday
Jeff Cliff interviewed me for his Facebook Live stream on Sunday. We discussed Saskatchewan politics, media, blogging, censorship, and the Amazon Fires. For instance, I can link to Facebook, but people trying to link here from Facebook are told my blog doesn’t meet Facebook’s “Community Standards”. If you can figure
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Cheery Monday Reading – 2084 Orwell Revisited – Tom Engelhardt
Ever get that feeling of being a leaf in the wind? It is the state of the world that makes me not want to care about what’s going on because it is so overwhelming. Tom Engelhardt from Tom’s Dispatch compares the current dystopia with withe one portrayed in 1984. “Unfortunately,
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Hannah Arendt’s On Violence
Unfortunately, this is really timely. Arendt wrote this short book in 1970, but there’s nothing in it that needs to be updated today. Absolutely nothing significant has changed; it’s just more. She was responding to the violence of WWII, Vietnam, the student riots in Paris, and, most specifically, the People’s
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Defining Neo-Liberal Political and Economic Ideology
Know it when you see it so you can oppose it. 🙂
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Hong Kong – The Struggle for Democracy
The CBC’s reporting on Hong Kong: “The anti-government protests present one of the biggest challenges facing Chinese President Xi Jinping since he came to power in 2012. And with the ruling Communist Party preparing to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic on Oct 1, the
Continue readingAkaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Toronto Star: Build a Wall? Canada’s Response to Trump
It would be an act of monumental self-deception for Canadians to believe that our country is an island set above the rage bubbling across the world.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The Funny Farm runs the election.
It is that time of year. Mid-summer is no time for serious. Even Elections Canada has joined the fun. In a television interview yesterday, an Elections Canada spokes person said with a straight face that she did not know what is being told to environmentalists about the rules of arguing
Continue readingPolitics – Toronto Lawyer | Omar Ha-Redeye: CBC Interview About Liberal Leadership
Omar Ha-Redeye was interviewed by CBC News at Mitzie Hunter’s launch for leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: The Giant Hamster Wheel of Political Rhetoric
I really believe that the arts are vital in times of strife, and that’s particularly true with witty orators and writers. They are the court jesters who get away with more than the rest of us can, and they’re necessary to any rebellion. So I appreciate how Anthony Jeselnik discusses
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Making Canada(?) Great Again.
It is not art. It is campaign literature and it always feels like a race to the lowest common denominator, free from the rules of grammar, where less is more and yet an essential part of the democratic process. After many years of producing better quality campaign literature for political
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