A Uniquely American Approach to Discussing Sea Level Rise
Americans know the sea is rising. A good many wealthy Americans own rather expensive waterfront abodes. They’ve come to “get” the reality of sea level rise, storm surges and saltwater…
2017
Bannon Bites Back
That didn’t take long. With Steve Bannon booted from the White House last Friday and back at the helm of Breitbart news the same day, it didn’t take long for…
From the beach, Scheveningen, The Hague, Netherlands
Our last day we walk up the beach along the North Sea. This is remarkable colour-wise, for drawing on a sunny day outside when the screen is quite hard to…
An Invaluable Primer on Neoliberalism
It arrived by stealth, largely unnoticed. It boils down to the idea that markets are superior to governments and that the political caste should defer to markets wherever possible. It…
Summer writing round-up
I know it’s been a bit quiet on the blog this summer, but that’s in part because I’ve been doing a bunch of writing elsewhere. Here is a quick summary…
Eating up the Hill: Pizza Hut Lunch Buffet
Not every Pizza Hut offers the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. But those that do are magnificent. Luckily, the one in Ottawa on Bank Street, south of Walkley is about a 20-minute…
Guess What the Dumb Bugger Did Now?
Donald Trump is known for not heeding advice. Those who give him advice are often frustrated when he proceeds to do just the opposite. Take yesterday’s solar eclipse. While Washington…
Saving the Ozone Layer Helped More Than We Thought
It turns out when nations of the world get together to try and save the environment they can be really good at it. The Montreal Protocol was signed in 1987…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Karri Munn-Venn argues for a federal budget focused on social well-being – not merely on economic productivity. And Tom Hale discusses the…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday August 22, 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. The amount payable to wrongfully dismissed employee depends on length…
Echoes Of History: 1955 and 2017
From this tragedy large, diverse groups of people organized a movement that grew to transform a nation, not sufficiently but certainly meaningfully. What matters most is what we have and…
Donald Trump and the Eclipsing of the Presidency
Although I had better things to observe, like that amazing solar eclipse, I thought I'd better watch Donald Trump's address to the nation, in case he declared war on North…
What Comes Next
There is some disagreement about whether or not Mark Twain actually said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but often it rhymes.” Be that as it may, Geoff Smith writes that these…
Happy anniversary, Lala
A bunch of Kinsellas, two Carrs and one Kirbie. A formidable team to have on your side. Kennebunk, 2015.
In the Fascist Fashion.
We should be worried about what happened in Quebec City the other day. It was not just unseemly. It certainly was not funny. They came for a fight, to create…
Salzberg and DeLuca Finally Respond to Vancouver Failure; DeLuca Blames CAP and SoO
When the members of the Worldwide Coalition Against Islam (based primarily in Alberta) and the Cultural Action Party (based almost exclusively in British Columbia) along with the Soldiers of Odin…
R.I.P. Merv Adey
It’s a sad day today. I knew Merv had been seriously ill for some time. Four weeks ago, he was hoping that a series of new treatments would be successful…
Correcting the Lies About Venezuela
Photo by Cristian Hernandez As the class struggle heated up in Venezuela this year, fueled by interventionist threats by the pro-US Organization of American States (OAS) bloc, many former supporters…