Trump win a call to arms for radical feminist men
Donald Trump’s election as the 45th President of the Unites States is a renewed call on radical feminist men to reject patriarchy, misogyny, sexism, white supremacy, and other men’s claim…
November 2016
Who Let the Monsters Out?
To paraphrase Mayor Nenshi, we must never forget how easy it is for a narcissist with a microphone to open the closet door and let the monsters out. Donald Trump,…
You should be worried about Canada’s Anti-terrorism Act
Canadians observing the recent election in the USA should not become complacent over the threats to our securities and freedoms. Our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is showing arrogance and disregard…
All Of the Above
Everybody, it seems, has an explanation for how a racist, bigoted, misogynistic pathological liar became the president-elect of the United States. Inevitably the focus becomes attaching blame for this farcical…
Optimism vs Hope
I’m thinking about the difference between optimism and hope. One can be optimistic because one believes things will go well. In some cases optimism is good and natural. However optimism…
Reckoning With A Trump Presidency And The Elite Democrats Who Helped Deliver It — Betsy Reed, Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald
THE UNITED STATES has been plunged into a state of purgatory following the election of Donald Trump. In all political quarters, people are engaged in their own of how…
A Sad Anatomical Fact
This is what happens, boys and girls, to those who have had their head up their posterior for more than the recommended duration: Recommend this Post
Two Eyed Seeing: The Common Wisdom of Aboriginal Peoples and Caregivers
Last week I happened to be in Toronto for a Master Class in patient and family oriented research. I’m passionate about putting the patient and family experience at the heart…
A Genius Kvetching Ring
An article, three years old, was in my facebook feed today. But it was insanely timely. It’s a little lifestyle piece about how to talk to people who are sick…
Here’s the kind of “working class economic anxiety” I’m getting via email and Twitter
Tons of it. Along with dozens of racist epithets, anti-Semitic slurs and suggestions – over and over – that I kill myself. All since Tuesday night. What’s the significance of…
Stuff Still Happens, week 45: President Homer Simpson
As always, The Simpsons predicted the future. In a season 9 episode called Trash of the Titans, Homer runs for sanitation commissioner against career civil servant Ray Patterson, voiced by…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk highlights how Donald Trump’s election is just one more predictable consequence of the end of shared growth – even as…
America: En Route from Republic to Post Democratic Empire
With the election of Donald Trump as President, the United States has taken another major step from a Republic to an Empire ruled by those who would be Caesars. The…
America: En Route from Republic to Post Democratic Empire
With the election of Donald Trump as President, the United States has taken another major step from a Republic to an Empire ruled by those who would be Caesars. The…
On Being Useful: a Necessary Shift in Radicalism
“Oh, what can we do in a case like that? Nothing to do but sit on your hat, or your toothbrush, or your grandmother, or anything else that’s useless.“ Those…
Product Review – Amopé Pedi Perfect
I’m not sure when the state of our heels became such a huge concern, but apparently it’s a big thing. Like. At some point in the past few years, someone…
AMERICA: FROM REPUBLICANISM TO CAESARISM
With the election of Donald Trump as President, the United States has taken another major step from Republicanism to Caesarism. The American republic was born in a struggle against imperial…
CBC Sunday Morning-Liberals Botched The Election-says Thomas Frank
CBC Host Michael Enright’s guest Thomas Frank offers a refreshing take on the recent us election, well worth a listen for those who may have missed it. Liberals botched the…