Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Thomas McDonagh discusses how the combination of concentrated corporate wealth and ill-advised trade agreements has allowed business interests to override the will…
May 2013
140Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, May 28, 2013: Crowdsourcing your views for upcoming #lawTechCamp talk: What is the top priority improvement required…
Butt Activated Maple Money?
“I do think heat has something to do with activating the smell. … Scratching will create some heat friction but my friend’s warm butt is likely the activator.” I enjoyed…
Save the Environment, Live in a City
The IEEE Spectrum recently interview William Meyer who is the author of the book The Environmental Advantages of Cities: Countering Commonsense Antiurbanism. The book’s central thesis is that we need…
The New Empire Is American as Apple Inc.
In his influential blog post, Empires Then and Now, the former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, Paul Craig Roberts, muses about the nature of the New Empire. According…
Ray Charles on the Way We Should Behave
Lots and lots of depressing news coming when the world in this part of the world is ablaze with luminous greens. How about this for an anthem? When it comes…
Now Is The Time
From the day he took power, Stephen Harper — like Rob Ford — has viewed the parliamentary press gallery as maggots. Edward Greenspon writes in the Toronto Star: When he…
This won’t last
You won’t believe this. We just found out that anti-Internet lobbyists are hosting happy hour parties in Washington to increase their influence over key TPP decision makers.1 They’re sipping cocktails…
Star: Ford’s office knew where crack tape video was filmed
After more than a week of extraordinary revelations, another one this morning: the Star is reporting that someone senior in Rob Ford’s office – paid for by Ford’s mythologized taxpayer…
Protected: A Reluctant Emcee
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
The big fat truth, the BMI sucks
This is a fascinating article in Nature showing evidence that being slightly overweight may be healthier. Of course, the real morsel of truth in the whole article is that the…
This Is Water: Thoughts On Living A Compassionate Life
It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust, but I’m breaking with tradition and posting a non-TED talk. It’s an excerpt of a longer commencement address given at Kenyon College in 2005…
Developments In On-Line Defamation Law
From Colby Cosh, the hirsute one himself: Early commentary on Burke’s lawsuit over claims he had an affair with a broadcaster was focused on the difficulty of tracking down internet…
Do we have it? #nlpoli
Kathy Dunderdale had a pretty easy audience on Monday for her relaxed, ambling speech about a whole bunch of stuff. It was the St. John’s Board of Trade. As a…
NBTA Acknowledges Education Department’s Obsession With Inclusion Philosophy
The New Brunswick Teachers Association has spoken up … sort of … about New Brunswick’s extreme inclusion philosophy. The NBTA to its credit acknowledges, finally, that inclusion is a philosophy…
Boss Harper and the Ford Duffy Nightmare
Golly. I'm sure Stephen Harper must look back fondly at the time when he had big plans for Rob Ford.Those happy days when him and Big Boy could pose together…
Expect Joe Anglin – potential problem for Danielle Smith – to be in for a talking to
Walter Sobchak, played by John Goodman, explains some of the harsh realities of life to the Dude and other characters from The Big Lebowski. In Alberta, when we crave this…
The confusing reinvention of Alberta’s Natural Governing Party.
TweetSuccess comes with challenges, and for Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives, forty-two years of electoral success has come with its own unique set of challenges. One of the PC Party’s biggest successes…
Rise of the Electric Automobile
There’s a battle rumbling south of the border. And it’s one Canadians aren’t hearing a lot about unless they plumb the news feeds online. It started for Tesla Motors during…