Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – The Guardian discusses how the all-too-familiar trend of growing inequality and ever more precarious lives for all but the fabulously wealthy is unsustainable:…
February 2013
Parting Thoughts from Obama’s Energy Secretary, Steven Chu
Excerpts from a letter by outgoing Obama energy secretary, Steven Chu, to employees of the Department of Energy. “The average temperature of our planet is rising, with majority of the…
A Casino Will Not Bring Mass Tourism to Toronto
To do the little I can do from my low-traffic blog to push back on a deeply stupid and frankly maliciously preposterous lie being pushed on the public, let’s just…
Flash! Margaret Wente Makes Error In Column!
I’m shocked! shocked! And I’d forgotten she’s on the BOD of Energy Probe, which is probably where she picks up most of of anti-renewable nonsense in the first place.
#skndpldr Roundup
As expected, the last week has been a relatively quiet one in the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign – representing the break between membership recruitment and voter contact. But there have…
Band of the Month: Formalists
Good day readers! Today’s Band of the Month is Formalists. Bridging the gaps between classical, folk, and progressive contemporary, this Thornhill born and raised quartet has been captivating crowds with…
5587…The Ultimate Game Is Today
Super Bowl. Duane Thomas, a running back from Dallas’ Cowboys, played in Super Bowl V and VI, winning VI. In the run up to VI Mr. Thomas was asked what…
6 Questions Submitted To Several Liberal Leadership Teams
I got the questions finished last night and have submitted them to people I know on 4 of the campaigns: George Takach, Marc Garneau, Deborah Coyne and Joyce Murray. I’m…
Concert of the Day: Fusion Cooking
Soft Machine & Allan Holdsworth, Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1974: Filed under: music, video
The Reckoning
As the present Masters of the Universe survey what they have wrought, they dismiss the young as lazy and pampered. But, Henry Giroux writes that, across that universe, youth are…
Feb.3: Yesterday’s issue of the Moncton TandT….
….because,as some of you know, I got steamed up over a story that didn’t appear in the TandT yesterday – and talked just about that. Page 1 is the usual…
Harpercon Tom Flanagan Has An Animal Hide Fetish. Your Argument is Invalid.
Sabina asks: Tom Fucking Flanagan. Why? Answer: Because chicks dig “the full buffalo”. No, really: “t is kind of a chick magnet. Women are drawn to the coat. They want…
U.S. Muslim Terrorism in 2012: Almost Nil
Sorry, Mark Levin — American Muslims = worst Fifth Column ever (h/t): Since 9/11, Kurzman and his team tallies, 33 Americans have died as a result of terrorism launched by…
Cosign With Jay Rosen
This: Editing by click rate is stupid and unethical. Chasing traffic is an abyss. The hamsterization of journalism is degrading the work environment for news professionals. Expecting reporters to report,…
Let the Games Begin …… Again!
With our Federal MP’s now back in the House and the Ontario Legislature about to resume under a new leader I am not optimistic that we will see any change…
Toronto’s Jains build a ‘landmark’ temple: AJIT JAIN
There are approximately eight million followers of the Jain religion worldwide – and close to 6,000 of them in Toronto – but it’s part of their ethos to keep a…
Stephen Harper Launches Major First Nations Termination Plan
As Negotiating Tables Legitimize Canada’s Colonialism by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 3, 2013: The following is a prophetic editorial detailing a major plan by Prime Minister Stephen…
Wouldn’t It Be Nice?
I have a confession to make: I am a lifelong Beach Boys’ fan. Their harmonies and their idyllic representation of the West Coast lifestyle captivated me as a youth, and…
Around the Internets
The cream in your Sunday coffee, back where it belongs: (h/t) When the drones come home ‘Earthlings, there is no place to hide’ — drone strikes blur the laws of…