Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Joe Stiglitz discusses the link between increased inequality and the U.S.’ economic frailty: Any solution to today’s problems requires addressing the economy’s underlying…
July 2012
Rae backs Muskrat…sort of #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Big screaming CBC headline: Federal Liberals support Muskrat Falls project: Rae Then you read the story. “Newfoundland is rich in hydro-electricity, and it’s not right that hydro-electricity should be cooped…
It’s the Weather, Stupid: Slowly Re-Awakening the Public About Climate Change
drought monitor.gif The Yale and George Mason Centers on Climate Change Communication, collaborators on the well-known “Six Americas” studies of how the public views global warming, are out with their…
Nurie responds
Nothing from JamesHalifax yet. Dear Mr. Kinella, Thank you for this timely message. Firstly, please allow me to apologize for causing you any sort of grief or aggravation, as a…
Hot Nasties, reviewed, 32 years after the fact
“Like a divergent australopithecine strain, The Invasion shares many tendencies with its descendants, while dabbling in different musical genera entirely: On its A-side, it establishes its ’77-proof DNA with “I…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, July 23, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, July 23, 2012: Colorado Murder Gun Was Illegal Till 2004 German circumcision row heading for new legal…
Another Home Run for Ibbitson
In his quest to become the top scorer in the Harper admiration society and ensure a much-coveted seat in the Red Chamber, John Ibbiston scores another home run in yet…
Redneck Rib Fest, XUP, and Pottery Camp
We took a whirlwind trip this weekend to Orangeville to meet my newest great-niece, Sienna, and visit with my sister’s family. Is that a cute baby or what? She’s happy…
21 Trillion
That’s the number of dollars the super rich have hidden in off shore tax havens, according to a recent report written by James Henry for the Tax Justice Network: Mr…
4920…Rob Ford Pulls A Kwame Kirkpatrick
In terms of his ride that is. Hizzoner had been tooling around Toronto, btw he drives himself everywhere which saves the city a few shekels, in a rattling old Chev…
Drought…
Most of North America has seen a remarkable paucity of precipitation this summer. While this has been heaven for sun bathers, it has been a disaster for crops across the…
Hot Enough For Ya!? – Climate Change – Movie Monday
So, I’ve been having a really good time doing all these ranty Movie Mondays…trying to get people riled up and make us all think a little. Today’s movie is no…
Famous Paintings with SF Titles: The Grondak Slayer
Up until recently, many believed this was Rembrandt’s masterpiece. According to most experts, it was likely painted by one of Rembrandt’s students, but it is a virtuoso work none-the-less. The…
The tide is perhaps turning in favor of the environment.
There are encouraging signs that groups and even politicians you wouldn’t normally think of as being pro-Environment are perhaps balking to Stephen Harper and the Conservative government’s obsession with resources…
Sunk Cost – Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
The chart below is taken from a Nalcor information hand-out describing the project’s capital expenditures to the end of March 2011. What that covers are the various costs for engineering,…
The Quebec Students and the Occupy Movement
It was such an awesome sight. Tens of thousands of people marching through the street on a muggy Montreal afternoon. To show their support for the student movement, denounce a…
You Listen Mister: Best Autism Advice This Autism Parent Ever Received
Following is a re-posting of an earlier comment: Irrational Neurodiversity Ideology Harms Children with Autism Disorders. As the title indicates it is my personal opinion, not as a lawyer, which…
Premiers’ private parley – a summit so secret if you knew what they’d talked about, they’d have to kill you!
B.C. Premier Christy Clark, left, meets Alberta Premier Alison Redford, in snap-brim hat at right, to discuss things too secret for the Western Canadian public to know about. Actual Western…
Gentleman! Step Up and Reclaim Your Wife! Pesky Newborns Be Damned!
Chattel. That’s all you are, women. The personal property of men. If you dare to turn your attention to something as trivial as…a newborn baby? YOU ARE LETTING YOUR KEEPER…