Wouldn’t You Like to See This Bastard Behind Bars?
Has Rudi Giuliani tripped himself up?
2016
An Economic System Incompatible With Life on Earth. Time to Move On to Something Better.
The only thing that troubles me about this is having to say it yet again – our addiction to perpetual exponential growth is not survivable. It is lethal. It will…
What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Delhi has staged a 10K race while pollution levels soar to 16 times above anything considered safe. The culprit is known as PM 2.5. 60 ppm is considered the maximum…
Stuff Still Happens, week 44: Hey, America! C’mon over!
Did you know that our shiny new, Canada-is-back Liberal government has set a new goal for the number of immigrants we will accept this year? That number is 320,000 immigrants…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Jackson writes that the Libs’ fall economic statement represents a massive (and unjustified) shift away from promised infrastructure funding even while…
The subtle art of Mark Manson
I have a healthy skepticism towards anything labelled a “self-help” book – especially those that aim at making your life happier or more fulfilled through some fad, superstition or pseudoscience.…
Today’s #USpoli #USelection numbers: those “Trump surge” headlines helped
As (me and others hoped), they scared complacent Dems off the couch and into action. Thus, the last-weekend growth in support for HRC, with women and Hispanics leading the way.…
Donald Trump and the Zombie Apocalypse
I spent most of yesterday trying to ignore the U.S. election for a day, by staying off the internet, reducing my exposure to CNN to three minutes at the most…
We might be wrong about Donald Trump.
Watching Donald Trump over the past year has been fascinating. Our first struggle was with our own preconceptions about politicians and political races. What we had to resolve in our…
The Reforming Senate
If Meech Lake had passed, the Senate would have been reformed. Ken Whyte writes that Peter Lougheed understood just how radically the Red Chamber would have been transformed: Mr. Lougheed…
The game’s afoot: Jason Kenney buses unfamiliar faces in camo caps to Tory youth meeting at Red Deer PC convention
PHOTOS: Candidates for the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership in Red Deer, from left to right, Stephen Khan, Jason Kenney, Byron Nelson, Richard Starke, Sandra Jansen and Donna Kennedy-Glans (photo by…
Economic woes create anti-establishment movements around the world | Business | The Guardian
In some western countries frustration with the status quo is boosting populist and rightwing political parties Source: Economic woes create anti-establishment movements around the world | Business | The Guardian…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Neil Irwin examines one of the key ideas underlying the U.S. Democrats’ economic plans, being that workers need to have meaningful choices rather…
Tesla CEO-Elon Musk thinks we need a ‘popular uprising’ against the fossil fuel industry-VIDEO
Revolutions are not usually called for or supported by billionaires. This is especially the case when the proposed fossil fuel industry is the target. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is causing…
Cornel West Nails America’s Electoral Catastrophe
The headline in the Boston Globe says it all: “Spiritual Blackout in America: Election 2016.“ THE MOST FRIGHTENING feature of the civic melancholia in present-day America is the relative collapse…
Heads Up, Gullibillies. Trump Is No Revolutionary, No Messiah, No Saviour.
Trump supporters share one thing – a belief that their guy will bring revolutionary change to the United States, its government and its economy. That’s a religious-grade belief of the…
Nov.5: Ask not for whom the bell tolls…
The problem is not Trump. And it’s not Clinton. The problem is much worse because it’s a permanent one. The problem is the final crash of American society and morality.…
Show Us It Floats.
Most British Columbians expect the Trudeau government will throw its environmental credibility down the toilet and approve the Kinder Morgan pipeline intended to carry some 890,000 barrels of dilbit each…
On Character
Now that I’ve sufficiently survived surgery physically, the psychological stuff is creeping in. Creeping is apropos. People keep telling me I’m so brave or so strong to go through it…
Alberta Politics By The Numbers on November 5, 2016
Total number of MLAs: 87 Number of Government MLAs: 54 Number of Opposition MLAs: 33 Number of former government MLAs now sitting in the opposition caucus: 7 Number of former…