Another "New Normal" – Western Wildfires
NASA has announced another climate change-driven “new normal.” This time it’s the sharp increase in the number, size and intensity of western wildfires.NASA and U.S. Forest Service officials, who have…
August 2013
At Last, a Climate Change Winner
Climate change has a lot of losers but it also has a few winners. It’s good to learn that, among the winners, are the giant redwoods and sequoias of coastal,…
The Hudson’s Bay Retail Sweatshop
Sweatshops ‘R Us! Ripping off employees by paying them less than a living wage , all to pad shareholder profits, is the glory of exploitative capitalism! Long live capitalism! Oh…
6323…Today Is A Magic Day
Earvin Johnson, formerly of Lansing, Michigan, currently of Los Angeles, California, turns 54 today. Better known as Magic Johnson, this man is one of the most prominent businessmen in America,…
Renewable Energy Predictions Way Off
They were vastly underestimated. .@theturner And yet @SaskPower as recently as 2013 was highlighting a #solarpower study from 2000 to guide their grid planning. #skpoli— John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) August 14,…
Piper Kerman: ‘Orange Is the New Black’
It is a fascinating story. Piper Kerman wrote a book ‘Orange Is the New Black’ which is her life story. Now a comedy-drama series “Orange Is the New Black” has…
6322…Rob Ford. I’m Lovin’ It!!!
Hey you gotta admit he looks like he is having a time. The mayor likes to party all the time, party all the time, party all the time.WFDS
6321…Coming To A Stephen Harper Near You
Voter suppression. The home of Andy Griffith, North Carolina, is leading the way. Check this out from ThinkProgress.org: On Monday, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) signed into law a…
The Reaction to Edward Snowden Parallels that of Julian Assange
Whenever we learn something new and impactful about what our governments or other institutions of power are doing, we owe ourselves a public discussion of these new revelations. Perhaps we…
Police station, Venice, at Rialto
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Politician: A politician is a politician and often cannot be trusted
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy In this case is the Norwegian Prime Minister driving around in a taxicab supposedly picking up unsuspecting passengers…
To and about Glen McGregor
The Sun is doing a clarification, but I wanted to do more than that. Here it is: I owe Glen McGregor a clarification, and perhaps even a correction. But I…
August 14: Yesterday, two pigeons sat on my windowsill…
They sat there, unmoving, for five or six hours, eyes open, unblinking. They were more interesting than the Moncton TandT. They certainly beat the big, front page, read-it-now story about…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Joseph Stiglitz comments on the wider lessons we should take from Detroit’s bankruptcy: Detroit’s travails arise in part from a distinctive aspect of…
Pondering Pam Et Al.
It was a comment yesterday that The Mound of Sound (a.k.a. The Disaffected Lib) made in response to a cartoon I posted depicting the much beleaguered Senator Wallin that made…
Helping health units that hate gambling.
“For some individuals, gambling is a devastating problem,” says the Ottawa health unit. From this you can deduce that the unit is somewhat negative about the siren lure of casinos.…
The B Team – A Plan B for the Economy
The economic stupidity of a few years back is still causing problems and the fact that the wrongdoers got bailouts for their transgressions hasn’t helped. Even years later economies haven’t…
Thag want be millionaire!
It had been an unlucky hunting season. First of all, their big man, Grunk, got himself gored by a woolly rhinoceros in the first week of the expedition. Grunk —…