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…
2016
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…
Guilty Manhattan liberals self-flagellate: stop the presses. Literally.
Well, they may feel compelled to g-drop and rationalize bigotry on a massive scale, but I sure don’t. Racism is racism, whether it emanates from a ballot box or the…
Sadly, I Am Inclined To Agree With Sir David Attenborough
His logic seems impeccable: Or, to put it another way: Recommend this Post
The Supermoon and the Return of Bernie Sanders
I can hardly wait to row out to a dark place on the lake tomorrow night, to watch the supermoon rising.For at a time when the darkness of fascism is…
Watching Justin suck and blow again.
One of our favourite progressive bloggers is on the West Coast and he likes to refer to Prime Minister Trudeau as ‘le Dauphin.’ He actually wrote that the Dauphin’s announcement…
Sexual Touching Requires True Consent
One important component of sexual assault law is consent. Any sexual touching requires that both parties give their consent or voluntarily agree. It can only be given by the persons…
Transactional Not Transformational
When he assumed office, Stephen Harper boasted that we wouldn’t recognize Canada when he was through with it. But Jennifer Ditchburn and Graham Fox argue in the final chapter of…
I’ll just leave this here for the Trumpkins
Thanks The Recovering Conservative for bringing this to my attention. -Shiv
More Bernard-trutherism: An update on Alberta’s (now ex) Roughneck
PHOTOS: Bernard the (now-ex) Roughneck enjoys some of the acclaim that goes with his newfound prominence here in Wild Rose Country. Photo grabbed from Facebook. Below: Neal Hancock as Bernard…
Remembering Leonard Cohen
Stopped in at Parc du Portugal today where people were paying their last respects and remembering Leonard Cohen who lived off this little square just off The Main. Lots of…
Peter Thiel goes ‘big league’, joining Trump’s presidential transition team (repost)
The PayPal founder’s support for Donald Trump made him an outlier in liberal Silicon Valley. What do we know about this controversial billionaire? Controversial Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel will…
No One is Coming to Save Us (repost)
The surprise victory of Donald Trump this past Tuesday has quickly presented people in this country (and around the world) with a vastly different political landscape than we had expected.…