Total Eclipse of the sun
On my way to Oregon, apparently on Monday morning a thing in the sky is going to pass in front of another thing. -via XKCD
On my way to Oregon, apparently on Monday morning a thing in the sky is going to pass in front of another thing. -via XKCD
There are no races. Every "race" has intermingled so many times over the centuries the whole concept of racial purity is fucking idiotic. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 19, 2017
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Stephen Metcalf discusses the meaning and effect of neoliberalism: “(N)eoliberalism” is more than a gratifyingly righteous jibe. It is also, in its way,…
Salvatore Ganaccia – Rocket Science
It’s been a wet, rather cool summer but the two pear trees in our backyard have loved it. There are more pears than the squirrels can eat, and I harvested…
I was first introduced to the cuisine of Afghanistan during the last nomination cycle, as an Afghan restaurant in Scarborough became one of our regular post-canvass meal destinations. I enjoyed…
The New York Times provides a very useful glossary of the terms favoured by white supremacists these days. Be sure to check it out. As well, the following video breaks…
They gathered in Washington this week to start renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Canada’s foreign minister Chrystia Freeland took along her plans for a new NAFTA. Just…
Steve Bannon resigned yesterday. Tony Schwartz believes Donald Trump will resign, too — perhaps before the end of the year. Frank Bruni believes it doesn’t matter. Trump is already gone:…
It’s a bit weird, driving through the US, listening to me and Charles talk about the US.
Plastic almost always ends up as waste within a year or two of its production. We’re making too much of it also, at an increasing pace. “Of the 8.3 billion…
A group of Kamloops city councilors are asking the provincial and federal governments to consider concerns about the Ajax Mine they say were unaddressed by B.C.’s environmental assessment. The proposal…
The lead story in Canada&World News for August 16 was ‘N.B. cabinet minister condemns U.S, violence’. Actually, racist hatred was what I first noticed about the maritimes when I came…
By Gavin Smith, staff lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law Association. This piece first appeared in the Vancouver Sun. B.C.’s new government is already seeing proof that it made the…
Donald Trump has apparently given Steve Bannon his pink slip. President Donald Trump on Friday fired Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist in the latest high-level White House shake-up, removing…
https://t.co/eMS1pMz1gv — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 18, 2017
The ongoing collapse of Ezra Levant's "The Rebel" (no links provided – I will not link to what I consider a hate site) makes one thing abundantly clear to me:…
A lot of people started smelling a rat when Julian Assange went a little bizarre during his latter years holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Something wasn’t right.…
A while back I wrote about a video comparing Stoicism and Existentialism. The video also touched on different psychology principles developed from each philosophy. Stoicism is easily seen in CBT…