Once Again, Look At The Facts
It was an ugly night. The kind of night that — after it’s over — leaves you with the feeling that you’ve got to hit the shower. This morning, The…
October 2016
Trump’s Troubles.
You hardly measure an event such as the second presidential debate last night as won or lost. It is more like a war of attrition as ground is lost and…
Politics as masturbation #nlpoli
“I am warning you. Don’t make me wear my pikachu costume.” Demonstrations at Memorial University and at Nalcor headquarters on Friday show the extent to which Newfoundland politics has become…
Columbus Day is Institutionalized Racism
In Canada, we celebrate Thanksgiving Day today, a slight improvement on Columbus day, which institutionalizes systemic racism. Columbus Day celebrates white supremacy. It’s time to stop that now. If you…
Things Break Down – Part 3
We’ve finally arrived. I now feel I have enough information to provide my opinion on this “election”, and frankly it’s not good. The political divisiveness has reached hysterical levels and…
Things Break Down – Part 3
We’ve finally arrived. I now feel I have enough information to provide my opinion on this “election”, and frankly it’s not good. The political divisiveness has reached hysterical levels and…
#NotOkay: Canadian woman’s Twitter sexual assault story call fuels rebellion against Donald Trump
A Canadian woman’s #NotOkay call on women to share their sexual assault stories on Twitter has partly fueled U.S. Republican leaders’ unfolding rebellion against their party’s nominee for president. The…
Diversity and Diversity Training
Donald Clark appears to be settling into the role of the voice of the closed society. His latest foray into this is his recent column arguing that diversity is “wrong-headed”.…
Diversity and Diversity Training
Donald Clark appears to be settling into the role of the voice of the closed society. His latest foray into this is his recent column arguing that diversity is “wrong-headed”.…
You can’t have a rational debate with a person who is never rational
You know what's sad? Watching dignified, inteliigent, competent woman being forced into a false equivalency with a piece of human garbage. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 10, 2016
Tonight’s debate
What #PresidentialDebate looks like to several million folks. pic.twitter.com/B971TNi5CW — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 10, 2016
A World-Class, Non-Stop Deviant
Wherein Trump tells Howard Stern how he drifts backstage at his beauty pageants to get an “owner’s eyeful.”
From 1945-49 the US and UK Planned to Bomb Russia into the Stone Age
Photo from FEMA Photo Library Just weeks after the Second World War was over and Nazi Germany defeated Soviet Russia’s allies, the United States and Great Britain hastened to develop…
Nourishment for a Hungry Mind
What follows is a lengthy excerpt from a book I only too recently read. I’ll present this passage largely uninterrupted and unburdened with editorial comment. It’s a lot better that…
Promises, promises, promises – all broken
Two years ago, in a series in the Collingwood Connection on the eve of the last election, 2014, all candidates were asked to make statements about certain issues. I thought…
Stuff Still Happens, week 40: OK, now he CAN’T win
Even the Teflon Don can’t get out of this one. Everyone except his most fanatical supporters knows Trump is a pig, a boor, a crass, classless thug. Now we have…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Cindy Blackstock offers a reminder of Canada’s long and shameful history of discrimination against First Nations children. And Donna Ferreiro takes a…
Republican rebellion against Trump unprecedented in modern campaign history, experts say
By Alexander Panett-Canadian Press- WASHINGTON — An internal rebellion has erupted against Donald Trump, knocking out support from longstanding pillars of the Republican party and threatening to turn his presidential…
Why Next Month’s Presidential Election Weighs Heavily on My Mind
For starters, I don’t like Hillary either. I do, however, want her in the White House in January. I’m worried. I’m worried about Syria, about tensions in the Baltics and…
Algonquin Park trip journal: Érables, Biggar, Kioshkowkwi
Four days in the north west end of Algonquin Park. Almost 3 litres of wine. Read more