Who’s crazy?
Interesting editorial cartoon the other day. It is of Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un. The North Korean leader is shown pulling a child’s wagon with a small rocket on…
September 2017
From the Twitter account of the former Deputy Leader of Free Alberta: Angela Merkel’s the leader of the free world
PHOTOS: The leader of the free world, listening to Neil Young on sound cancelling headphones. Click here for the soundtrack to this post. The confused looking elderly man with a…
The Politicians are Coming…
Paul Keating said, “Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers and maddies.” Oh, please let there be a fourth kind of politician–a thoughtful visionary. Calgarians go to the polls…
A Loser and a Racist to Boot.
An interesting article in The Atlantic, “Donald Trump and the Depressing Politicization of Everything.” Writer Derek Thompson puts the man/baby president’s endless tantrums down to two things. What is the…
Kim Is Right. Trump Is Barking Mad.
He can’t help himself. His mental infirmity prevents Trump from ever letting go, even when he’s losing. This is Day Three of the man/baby’s juvenile attack on America’s National Football…
Evangelical Christians Head to Jerusalem to Rally Behind Israel
Photo by zeevveez As the Jewish High Holiday season moves in, Israel is getting set to welcome a throng of religious visitors – evangelical Christians. Thousands will pour in from…
Anti-Vietnam War Activists Comment on Burns’ Sentimental Lies About Vietnam
The current PBS series on the war in Vietnam is stirring discussion throughout the country on the U.S. war in Vietnam; the longest war in Afghanistan; and now Donald Trump’s…
what i’m reading: news of the world by paulette jiles
After burning through several excellent nonfiction books in rapid succession, I have a small pile of novels waiting for me. Here’s the first of, I hope, several fiction reviews. News…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 36: Trudeau vs. Trump
Donald Trump, the increasingly, dangerously irrational U.S. president, addressed the UN General Assembly this week. So, too, did Justin Trudeau, the poster boy for all that is liberal in the…
Action is the One Miracle-Working Faculty of Man
This piece by Wen Stephenson is a beautifully written comparison between Hannah Arendt’s Nazi analysis and the pivotal issues of our time. I’m also afraid, not so much about what…
Self-insurance for workers doesn’t work
This is a guest post from Rod Hill, a Professor of Economics at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John campus. A previous version of this post first appeared in…
Nibiru apocalypse failed again
Since you’re reading this, the world didn’t end, Saturday. Again. Damn… All those wacky “predictions” from the fringe of the ignorati didn’t come true. Again. Not that that’s surprising: what’s…
Time For A Cost-Benefit Analysis
Only the supremely naive would think that the extollment of athleticism is a central operating principle in professional sports. While at one time there might have been some purity to…
Leadership 2017 Links
The latest from the federal NDP’s leadership campaign as the first voting window remains open. – Power & Politics and the Toronto Star have each posted new summaries of the…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Rachel Bunker writes that Equifax represents the worst of an out-of-control capitalist system, as a poorly-regulated and unreliable credit reporting operation is…
the strange case of the barney miller rape episode
Watching Barney Miller as my comedy-before-bed sleep aid, I was stunned and amazed by an episode called “Rape” — Season 4, Episode 15. A woman comes to the station house,…
The Last Assessment
Robyn Sears offers an assessment of three of the contenders for the NDP’s leadership: Charlie Angus has impeccable New Dem credentials: northern, working class, long-term Indigenous activist; informal but smart,…
Donald Trump hates the NFL
…and many other things, too. So SFH wrote a song about it.
Trudeau’s terrific travels!
Canadians sure get full measure when they send their prime minister on a personal appearance tour. He did more in two days in New York than most rock stars can…