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
August 2017
We are just outside Boston, where a racist rally is happening today, and this thought has occurred to me yet again
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
Saturday Morning Links
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,…
Musical interlude
Salvatore Ganaccia – Rocket Science
Saturday Photo: Pear Harvest
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…
Eating up the Hill: Chicken Tandoori Kabob at Afghani Kabob Express
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…
Deciphering White Supremacists
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…
Pollyanna goes to Washington.
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…
His Answer
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:…
Weird
It’s a bit weird, driving through the US, listening to me and Charles talk about the US.
Plastic Is Out of Hand
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…
Kamloops City Council Urge B.C., Ottawa to Re-Think Ajax Mine Environmental Assessment
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…
August 18: What a terrible day!
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…
Embattled Taskeo Mine Permits Show Why B.C. Needs an Environmental Assessment Overhaul
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…
Bannon Out?
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…
Good riddance, you racist bastard
https://t.co/eMS1pMz1gv — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 18, 2017
Post-Rebel Journalism Needs To Become A Recognized Profession
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:…
Assange Went Hard on Hillary, Limp on the Kremlin
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.…
On the Absurdist Victory: All is Well
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…