Blowhard Blah Blah Blah
Please pardon the rather inarticulate nature of this post's title, but it seemed appropriate in dealing with this subject:And it would appear that Toronto Star readers have taken the full…
January 2016
Is There Some Rule That the U.S. Must F_ck Up Everything?
Sure there is. It's Rule 836(b) - You play ball with me, and I'll stick the bat right up your A$$. That's the rule.After months of multinational negotiations, a deal…
Mental Note: Design rocket so it doesn’t explode at 90 degree tilt
Rockets that land are a new thing, so it’s probably a minor oversight. No one was hurt in the blast. It’s hard to reuse a rocket that lands, if it…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Oxfam offers its latest look at global inequality, featuring the finding that 62 people now control as much wealth as half of the people…
Missing the point: Pacific Centre edition
Holy hell, what a mess.I know the adage that you should never read the comments section on news sites or YouTube, but with the Pacific Centre photographers still making the…
GyroGlove Helps Parkinson’s Patients with Hand Tremors
Parkinson’s is a neurological condition that interferes with a person’s ability to control fine muscle movements. This means that hand tremors, or other visible forms of shaking, cannot be finely…
Missing the point: Pacific Centre edition
Holy hell, what a mess.I know the adage that you should never read the comments section on news sites or YouTube, but with the Pacific Centre photographers still making the…
Clinton won but is losing
She’s a superior debater to Sanders. She has a broader and firmer grip on the issues. She’s self-assured, measured and tough. Sanders – who I sort of like because he…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for the Week of January 18, 2016
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter"'Get a court order,' Apple tells widow seeking late husband's passwordOntario man sentenced to life for smuggling pot into U.SDoctor…
The Incredibly Sad and Sorry State of the Harper Party
I can only imagine what Stephen Harper must be telling his psychiatrist these days.But if he's claiming he's still a Great Economist Leader it must be crazy stuff. As his…
In defence of our nation’s capital.
Ottawa is a wonderful city. No it is not Paris. Paris is a city in its own right. France needs Paris because that is where the action is. It creates…
What Has Happened?
http://www.cnn.com/While Barack Obama is trying to ensure that everyone who p...
Process Question #nlpoli
Finance minister Cathy Bennett told CBC that "everything is on the table and we have to make sure that we don't leave anything that potentially could help us move to…
Ellen Meiksins Wood, 1942-2016
Last week, the great Marxist scholar and historian of political thought, Ellen Meiksins Wood, passed away. Wood was a major influence on my intellectual development, both in terms of how…
Climate Change Threatens Coastal British Columbia First Nations Fishing Traditions
A new study says climate change threatens fishing traditions that have sustained First Nations along Canada's Pacific coast for thousands of years. The study found that climate change could reduce…
Bishop Henry Pontificates on Gay Straight Alliances
On January 13, 2016 The Most Reverend Frederick Bernard Henry, the seventh Catholic Bishop of the diocese of Calgary well and truly lost it. Henry wrote a pastoral letter denouncing…
Rhetoric vs Reality: The Real Role of Families in Hospital Care
If you've ever gone to the Emergency Room with someone you love who has mobility or cognitive impairments, you know that hospitals are very unsafe places for vulnerable people. Unless…
Monday’s Limited Choices
Here are the choices Collingwood Council faces, Monday night, when dealing with the unethical, immoral and probably illegal actions of the two renegade members of council. You’ll recall that these…
in which the death of a rock legend makes me think about how our world has changed
When this came out, I hung the cover on my bedroom wall. Sharing memories of David Bowie, as so many of us were after his too-early death this week, led…