petra, day two
Staying overnight in Petra was a great idea and worked out beautifully. After an elaborate but nondescript (and overpriced) breakfast buffet at the Petra Moon, we left our luggage at…
February 2017
Paulie and Kyle McKee: Together Again
When Kyle McKee formed first the Aryan Guard, which morphed into Blood & Honour, Paul Fromm was a regular attendee at a number Calgary events organized by McKee and his…
When Old White Guys Discover Memes
Ms Soapbox recently received a series of memes from an old white guy justifying his support of Trump’s anti-Muslim, anti-immigration, anti-refugee, anti-everything policies. She’s been seething ever since. Not because…
Paulie and Kyle McKee: Together Again
When Kyle McKee formed first the Aryan Guard, which morphed into Blood & Honour, Paul Fromm was a regular attendee at a number Calgary events organized by McKee and his…
NDP Leadership 2017 Opening Comments
The consensus list of prospective candidates in this year’s federal NDP leadership race seems to be set, with Peter Julian and Charlie Angus having already declared their intention to run,…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Dietrich Vollrath discusses both what’s included in our societal capital, and how best to think of redistributive policies as means of fairly…
NDP Leadership 2017 Opening Comments
The consensus list of prospective candidates in this year’s federal NDP leadership race seems to be set, with Peter Julian and Charlie Angus having already declared their intention to run,…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Dietrich Vollrath discusses both what’s included in our societal capital, and how best to think of redistributive policies as means of fairly…
The Big Chill
A disturbing account of the big money people manufacturing Donald Trump’s alternative reality. As Steve Bannon says, every day is a war. They are at war – with the truth.…
Kevin O’Leary, Justin Trudeau, and the Millennial Vote
I must admit I was amused to see Kevin O'Leary claim that he could get most of the millennials in Canada to support him.And make him the country's next prime…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 8: Take us away from this, Oscar!
Nothing happened in the world this week, so I’m going to devote this blog to the Academy Awards. Yes, I know that things did happen in the world this week,…
Kevin O’Leary, Justin Trudeau, and the Millennial Vote
I must admit I was amused to see Kevin O'Leary claim that he could get most of the millennials in Canada to support him.And make him the country's next prime…
The Company They Keep
Although I consider myself a hard-bitten cynic/realist, a report by Daniel Dale in today’s Star has left me decidedly dispirited. Dale, our Canadian expert on Trump who has followed the…
The White House Dinner and the Shrinking of Donald Trump
I know it's an optical illusion, but the more Donald Trump rants and raves, the more his stature seems to shrink.He's trying to convince Americans that the media is more…
The Company They Keep
Although I consider myself a hard-bitten cynic/realist, a report by Daniel Dale in today’s Star has left me decidedly dispirited. Dale, our Canadian expert on Trump who has followed the…
Trumping the News Media.
The other day one of our American relatives asked: “Why are you writing so much about Trump?” The simple answer is that President Donald Trump is an ongoing saga of…
The White House Dinner and the Shrinking of Donald Trump
I know it's an optical illusion, but the more Donald Trump rants and raves, the more his stature seems to shrink.He's trying to convince Americans that the media is more…
The Twit and the Future of Democracy in the U.S.
With a blog focused upon democracy my regular readers may have been wondering how I could not write about the real and ongoing threat to democracy occurring to the south…
The Focus Shifts To Europe
Elections are coming in Europe. That’s where — not in the United States — we will see the first reverberations of the Trump Effect. Six months ago, it looked like…