The Worm Turns – Read This Editorial
It’s straight from the pages of the Vancouver Province, Postmedia’s west coast tabloid. It’s about global warming. It puts Donald Trump and Stephen Harper in the same boat and then…
January 2014
Countering Colonization (and other great books)
So University of California Press has just made 700 of its books available for online reading (to read on a tablet you have to copy paste into some other program…
The Tao of Environmentalism
At Politics Respun, Stephen Elliott-Buckley suggests we make decarbonizing our New Year’s resolution. In a fit of frustration, I commented thusly: What does it look like to join you? I…
Climate scientists demand radical change
“Today, after two decades of bluff and lies, the remaining 2°C budget demands revolutionary change to the political and economic hegemony.” That was in a blog posting last year by…
Ariel Sharon Dead
Stephen Harper is very saddened. Sharon who butchered Palestinians mercilessly. Canada’s prime minister, Stephen Harper, described Sharon as “one of the architects of modern-day Israel” and one of its “staunchest…
Two more loaves, new lessons learned
Following up on my desire to make homemade raisin-cinnamon bread for Susan, I spent several hours collecting recipes online and entering their ingredients into a spreadsheet so i could compare…
Here He Comes
So you thought the election was in 2015. And now, like Humphrey Bogart — who went to Casablanca for the waters — you discover that you have been misinformed. The…
Choose early, repent longer.
It really is foolish. There was a commentary the other day by Bob Hepburn of the Toronto Star that Toronto liberals are in a quandary about this year’s mayoralty race…
Recommended Reading: The Agony of Frank Luntz in The Atlantic
This is a worthwhile read about a morally confused guy who would, if he continues to do what he does so well, make the problem he is distressed about worse.…
Hudak’s ‘Truth’ Exposed For The Lie It Is
In response to an opinion piece written by Stephen Skyvington espousing the Tim Hudak canard that mandatory union membership is one of the reasons Ontario is faring so badly economically,…
Ministry of Propaganda and Disinformation
On Thursday the Prime Minister’s Office posted Thursday episode 1 of what it calls “24 Seven” — a weekly roundup of Harper’s events and announcements, and those of his government.…
Thoughts about the kid’s book The Stamp Collector
I borrowed the book The Stamp Collector from the library because I thought it might be another cute book about collections, and in a way it is but its also…
You Know Winter Is Over When
…the mayor starts hitting the clubs, the patrons, the bottle, cyclists, street-signs. A whole new Spring o’ scandal is almost upon us. From here. From last night, apparently.
Who We Think We Are in Hunger Games: Catching Fire
“The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name…
Marx and Engels on the State
Reblogged from Bob Jessop: This on-line version is the pre-copyedited, preprint version. The published version can be found here: ‘Marx and Engels on the state’, in S. Hibbin, ed., Politics,…
Makeup for Women of colour and Essentializing skintone
Makeup for Women of colour People of Colour and Essentializing skintone We all know the problem of makeup and shade selection for women of colour (or women of very little
‘Killing us softly’ but promised prosperity
The promised prosperity of the future is already here, can’t you see it? CHARLESTON, W.Va. – On the third day without clean tap water, business owners with empty dining rooms…