The Conservative Ideology
“ideology” \ˌī-dē-ˈä-lə-jē, -ˈa-, ˌi-\ a systematic body of concepts, especially those of a particular group or political party—Merriam-Webster The word “ideology” was coined by the French philosopher Destutt de Tracy.…
2017
Why Aren’t We Deporting this Jailbird Back to His Own Country?
He’s like something from the barnyard you just can’t quite scrape off your boots. He’s not a Canadian citizen. He’s a convicted felon who has served a stretch in an…
Clapper’s Bold Warning – American Democracy "Under Assault"
Former National Intelligence director, James Clapper, warns American democracy is under assault from without and from within, from Russia and from its own president, Donald Trump.“I think, in many ways,…
RIP, Freddy Pompeii
Freddy Pompeii of the Viletones died last night. RIP. Here’s SFH paying tribute to his band.
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Barbara Ellen questions the positive spin the right tries to put on poverty and precarity, and writes that we’re all worse off…
Spicer embarrasses all press secretaries.
Donald Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer is earning press secretaries a bad name. You would like to think it is not because he is totally incompetent. He might just have…
Shameless
Countries have written constitutions to serve as a brake against idiocy. But constitutions rely on time honoured conventions. And, because Donald Trump is utterly shameless, he completely trashes those conventions.…
Donald Trump and the Week From Hell
It seems only fitting that Donald Trump should end his week at Liberty University, invoking the name of God, and denouncing his critics.Because for Trump it was a week from…
Infighting Amongst Canadian Islamophobes: Part 5 – Troubles With Edmonton Rally
You know, I had fully intended on writing a few other articles this week primarily focusing on the upcoming anti-government/Islamophobe rally scheduled for Ottawa on June 3 as well as…
Spotted at Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon
…by my pal Andy Gregg. Cool.
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The Washington Post – the President Is Irrational
The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin sums up Trump’s terrible week. There are two problems coming together at once. First, the president is blabbing about actions (real or not) that would…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Claire Provost writes about the spread of the private security industry – which now exceeds the size of public police forces in Canada…
Saturday Photo: Green Rain after the Real Rain
The photo actually was taken a few years ago, but it looks like this outside today. The maple trees are dropping their little flowers (drupes, I think, is the proper…
Very Much Alive And Well
If you think that Neo-liberalism is on life support in Canada, take a look at the Trudeau government’s proposed infrastructure bank. Linda McQuaig writes: The bank is being presented to…
Mom: You’ve Been Here All This Time
Very recently my sister shared with me a beautiful New York Times opinion piece titled ‘Our Mothers As We Never Saw Them’. The author became interested in contemplating the photos…
Those tree-hugging Greenies did it!
When we wrote our Morning Line for the British Columbia provincial election, we admitted the weakness to our assessment. Here it is four days after the election and we still…
More Doctors and Nurses, Less Waiting
I went to the CCAC yesterday after my surgery on Tuesday – the Community Care Access Centre – an agency I only heard about when they had a local whistleblowing…
Soldiers of Odin Continue to Disintegrate
Our friends in the Soldiers of Odin are continuing to have a rough go of it lately: Having their social media presence disrupted is certainly an inconvenience, but bitter curmudgeon…
Musical interlude
Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc.