Gun violence is male violence
As I went to bed last night I wondered about the colour of the shooter’s skin, and what that would mean for how we labeled his actions and what we…
2017
Jagmeet Singh will change federal politics and Canada for the good
New NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh Just a short note to express my happiness with Jagmeet Singh’s resounding victory in the federal NDP leadership yesterday. I did have a sense a…
Tom Petty, RIP
Almost 30 years ago, I drove down from Ottawa to TeeDot to see the Replacements open for him. The ‘Mats were drunker than skunks, comme toujours, but I spotted Petty…
The Malignancy Devouring America
The Guardian editorial today explores the horror that permeates America and the horror story, its president. The mass shooting of a concert crowd in Las Vegas is deeply shocking. It…
Prayer isn’t stopping the violence
An acerbic piece in Maclean’s Magazine from June had the title “America’s mass delusion.” The subtitle read, “Surprisingly, the strategy of praying to God is not stopping the mass shootings…
Tom Petty, Dead at 66.
Legendary rock star, Tom Petty, has died of cardiac failure, age 66. In December, Petty told Rolling Stone that he thought this would be the group’s last tour together. He…
There’s Nobody in the Wheelhouse. SS America is Being Steered from Below Decks.
Robert Reich on America’s absentee president. …he’s not actively governing the United States. That work is happening elsewhere—in Congress, the courts, the Fed, the career civil service, lobbyists, and in…
Hedges’ Eulogy for Imperial America
Farewell, American Empire. The American empire is coming to an end. The U.S. economy is being drained by wars in the Middle East and vast military expansion around the globe.…
Kong and his films
Kong: Skull Island is the 19th movie in my collection about apes.* Or at least ape-ish creatures (not including those about cave people or yetis). We watched the recently-released Kong: Skull…
When a Story Simply Feels Too Good.
It was like throwing raw meat to a school of piranha. A couple of weeks ago a study published in Nature Geoscience had the climate change denialist media (yes, there…
The Ghost of El Caudillo Returns to Catalan
A fellow left a comment here yesterday: “…not unlike Albertans, the Catalonians have bemoaned the fact that as a rich province, they remit more taxes to central government than they…
October 2: 58 people killed at Las Vegas…
Oh, that means Muslim terrorists will never catch up to the rate at which Americans kill each other. 9/11 was the ultimate Muslim terrorist attack, killing some 3,000 Americans. But…
Top 10 Legal headlines for the Week of October 2, 2017
140Law: Here are our Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of October 2, 2017. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Breaking the silence
Needless to say, there will be plenty more to discuss about the Wall government has exposed residents of Saskatchewan’s oil patch to avoidable (and sometimes fatal) hazards in order to…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Joseph Parilla examines how entrenched inequality serves as a barrier to economic development for everybody. – Heather Long highlights how the U.S.’ last…
Cats and beasts #6
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140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of October 2, 2017
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of October 2, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: Ontario Superior Court warns federal government it ‘desperately’ needs more judges |…
Positively Trolling Racists on the Web
Racists aren’t smart, and recently their stupidity has been taken advantage of to make the internet a little better. The popular online community Reddit has some parts of the site…
Writers and reading
This post is about, and for writers, for reporters and editors, for book authors and editors, magazine editors, feature writers, layout artists, copy editors and anyone who either fancies themselves…