Dieseldammerüng
image taken from despair.com’s latest t-shirt Before we get to this message’s main event, I’ll throw another brief shoutout to Pope Francis. Sure, he leads one of the world’s socially…
September 2015
Sept. 27: A turning point in Canadian history – I hope.
In the United States today, 22% of all children live in poverty. And that’s a very grudging figure for an even worse situation because poverty is defined as having less…
Lousy view on the way to Alaska
Man, this sucks.
It’s a Dog Eat Dog World in GOP Politics
Just how Tea Party does a Republican have to be now to get elected? In North Carolina, Repug representative Renee Ellmers won office five years ago by defeating an incumbent…
Renew Your Spirit With a Love Song to the Earth
How awesome is this! The Love Song Project: “A song with the power to fight climate change and maybe even change the world.” Some of the biggest names in music…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jennifer Wells writes about the drastic difference in pay between CEOs and everybody else. And Henry Farrell interviews Lauren Rivera about the…
Lisa says she was going to put “I’m getting out of the car to get a better picture” on my headstone
Yes, I really said that. Yes, I was going to try. Until Lisa and Emma started yelling at me, that is. Check out our new friends on the Klondike Highway.…
Memo from Washington: The Pope’s Call for Climate Action
To start his US tour, the Pope stated that “climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to a future generation. When it comes to the care…
It Gets Worse – They Knew, Years Ago
Volkswagen officials knew, at least as far back as 2011, that their diesel engine emissions software was rigged. A Volkswagen engineer warned the company about cheating over its emission tests…
KCCCC Day 56: what this election will be remembered for
The length, sure. The outcome, of course. All of that is important. But Election 42 will be remembered for one thing most of all: the record number of shitty candidates.…
Stephen Harper and the Ghastly Cowardice of the Cons
There are now just three weeks to go before the election that will decide the fate of Canada, and we find out whether it will live or die. And it's…
Jason Kenney is showing his fear.
Any political apparatchik has to handle his or her share of losses. You can keep winning for a while and then you have to take one on the chin. It…
Word On The Street
I’m heading to Toronto this morning for Word On The Street, the annual celebration of the written word that is always a worthwhile experience. At noon, I am hoping to…
Harper History – Conclusion, Index
It is all but impossible to cover all the things that the Harper Regime has done to diminish our democratic institutions or the contempt that he has shown for democratic…
On The Way Out
https://www.pinterest.com/ It’s not easy to tell the truth — particularly when people don’t want to hear it. Linda McQuaig caused something of a political firestorm awhile back for suggesting that…
Election polling: Plenty of noise, not much signal
This has also been posted at iPolitics. Nate Silver became an overnight sensation as a polling guru early on in the 2008 Presidential when he contradicted the conventional media interpretation…
Election polling: Plenty of noise, not much signal
This has also been posted at iPolitics.Nate Silver became an overnight sensation as a polling guru early on in the 2008 Presidential when he contradicted the conventional media interpretation of…