Obituary for the F-35?
The US Air Force does not want to get trapped with the F-35 when 2030 rolls around. Given that the partly stealthy light attack bomber won't be fully operational until…
June 2016
Getting Out From Under Neoliberalism
The critics were right. Neoliberalism doesn't work. Got it. We've even got it from the brothel of neoliberal thought, the International Monetary Fund that has spent decades administering toxic neoliberal…
Life In Scarborough: Anti-Union Sentiments Overheard Being Expressed In Scarborough Pub!
I hear a guy at the bar today, talking. He says: “Hey, you know what a union is, don’t ya? It’s a bunch of drunk guys fallin’ off a roof.”…
Life In Scarborough: Anti-Union Sentiments Overheard Being Expressed In Scarborough Pub!
I hear a guy at the bar today, talking. He says: "Hey, you know what a union is, don't ya? It's a bunch of drunk guys fallin' off a roof."…
Life In Scarborough: Anti-Union Sentiments Overheard Being Expressed In Scarborough Pub!
I hear a guy at the bar today, talking. He says: "Hey, you know what a union is, don't ya? It's a bunch of drunk guys fallin' off a roof."…
pupdate: happiness is a cancer-free dog
Tala's stitches were removed last week, and we got the full biopsy results: clean margins all around. The surgeon says she does not expect to ever see us again. A…
And It Only Took 100,000 Years
If not this year then next. The Arctic will be ice free for the first time in 100,000 years.Of course, the scientists' idea of "ice free" and yours or mine…
June 4:Our failure to help our police
(This one is a little late. Sorry.)I have often mentioned that we are passing through a revolution. In fact, it is almost over. The police state is here with domestic…
Stuff Still Happens, week 22: Muhammad Ali, when boxing mattered
The death on Friday of Muhammad Ali, described by the New York Times as a “titan of boxing and the 20th century” reminded me of a time when boxing mattered.…
the greatest, forever. rest in power muhammad ali.
Revolutionary thought of the day, from a revolutionary American.Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets…
Fool some people some of the time.
You sometimes wonder what ‘progressive’ means. Babel-on-the-Bay is included in a collection of blogs by progressive Canadian writers. We have come to the conclusion that is a very broad description…
The Night Sophie Grégoire Trudeau Stole the Show
As you know the last month has been a horrible one for Sophie Grégoire Trudeau.Rona Ambrose and her monstrous Cons have gone after her, her children, and her mother in…
Why is the MSM Trying to Bury Electoral Reform?
The other day I warned that although the Con's hysterical demands for a referendum on electoral reform, were a product of desperation.And clearly over the top.The Con media is on…
When People Know What They’re Buying
When the Trudeau government agreed last week to adopt an NDP motion which populates the election reform committee on the basis of the votes each party received in the last…
Anglo-America: Regression and Reversion in the Modern World
Image by Steve Hammond Introduction What does it mean when the US and British financial systems launder hundreds of billions of dollars of illicit funds stolen by world leaders while…
Now We Know – Indeed
If you really want to help defend Saudi Arabia from ISIS cut up their credit cards. They don't need Canadian Death Wagons for that job. It's not as though they…
How the Media Should have Responded to Peter Thiel
Much ink has been spilled about Peter Thiel’s funding of various cases against Gawker. However, the discussion of whether he should or shouldn’t mostly miss the point. Nor do the…
Muhammad Ali and the Brutal Sport of Boxing
He was a giant, an unforgettable character on the stage of life.And he deserves all the tributes that are pouring in from all over the world.But while many call Muhammad…
The difference between Trump and Clinton
Eric Alterman writes about How False Equivalence Is Distorting the 2016 Election Coverage | The Nation and sums up the basic difference between Trump and Clinton: Journalistic abdications of…
The difference between Trump and Clinton
Eric Alterman writes about How False Equivalence Is Distorting the 2016 Election Coverage | The Nation and sums up the basic difference between Trump and Clinton: Journalistic abdications of…