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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Fernando Arce discusses how Doug Ford’s attacks on labour create public health risks. And Amanda Mull writes about the futility of telling workers with no safety net to stay home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, while Donald McNeil Jr. points out
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Bias, Not Evidence, Dominates Transgender Standards of Care
It is going to be very disheartening for people who bought into the puberty blockers as a solution to their ‘gender dysphoria’ realize that they were the first test subjects in a long term trial. What they were told, and what will happen are likely to be two very different
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Dangerous Denial of Sex Transgender ideology harms women, gays—and especially feminine boys and masculine girls. By Colin M. Wright and Emma N. Hilton
The Dangerous Denial of Sex Transgender ideology harms women, gays—and especially feminine boys and masculine girls. By Colin M. Wright and Emma N. Hilton Feb. 13, 2020 6:54 pm ET “Transgender ideology can take on a comical character, as in a recent American Civil Liberties Union commentary objecting to
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: … And Now We Indoctrinate Our Children
As if we needed yet another example of Albertans’ deep denial of global warming. Education Minister Adriana LaGrange claims she is receiving reports from parents of “extremist views” being taught in the province’s schools. “There was a particular document that was shown to me recently,” she complained, “in terms of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Got Milk? – In a Nutshell
I like a nice glass of milk once and awhile. The real love comes when we get down to business with cheese and sour cream though, both go so well with perogies. 🙂
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Big Burp – Methane In the Arctic
It would be strangely terrible if the beginning of humanities decline was prefaced with something known as the “Big Burp”. The methane in the arctic is a super green house gas, and if the facts are correct, it is going to over salt our soup sooner than later.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #EightYears came early
A couple years ago when the IPCC gave us approximately 12 years to get emissions way down, I started using the hashtag #TwelveYears on stories related to how far we have to go yet now I’ve been using #TenYears, but I’m being too conservative. #EightYears is our presently calculated deadline
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Reality is Confirmed
Reality is essentially what science tells us it is. Everything else is speculation. About the worst story about reality that science has been telling us lately is that we are heating up the atmosphere and if we don’t stop pretty damn quick we can start writing off global civilization. This
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Dayen highlights a rare moment of honesty from the payday loan sharks in their recognition that fair wages would reduce the consumer desperation underpinning their business model. And Brendan Greeley discusses the wealth tax – the merits of which are only
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Dzhanibekov Effect – Veritasium
Some of the mechanics rotating bodies in motion, explained well in the video. 🙂
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Humans Can’t Change Sex – It’s The Biology, Stupid.
“The conceptual distinction between male and female based on reproductive organization provides the only coherent way to classify the two sexes. Apart from that, all we have are stereotypes. This shouldn’t be controversial. Sex is understood this way across sexually reproducing species. No one finds it particularly difficult—let alone
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Pollution in New Delhi – Nothing New Under the Dim Sun
Listening to the news on the way to work this morning the last story was about the smog problem in New Delhi. The amount of particulate matter in the air was something like ten times the recommended levels for good health. “Part of the problem stems from residents who burn
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Nuking A City – In a Nutshell
As you may have noticed, we like to blow stuff up on this channel. So when the International Red Cross approached us to collaborate on a video about nuclear weapons, we were more than excited. Until we did the research. It turned out we were a bit oblivious off the
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Greta Visits Alberta
“So today is Friday and as always, we are on Climate Strike, young people all around the globe are today sacrificing their education to bring attention to the climate and ecological emergency.”—Greta Thunberg On Friday my friend Elaine and I joined more than 10,000 Albertans to show our support for
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