Second Verse, Same As The First
The playlist is, I know, increasingly repetitive, but Earth-station has but a few records remaining on the turntable, and they will only be played louder and louder as the party…
July 2018
Not His Strong Suites
Lawrence Martin writes that, if sanity prevails, Donald Trump will not impose tariffs on automobiles manufactured in Canada. Recently, there has been a strong chorus in favour of sanity and…
Shoring up Alberta’s Energy Exploiters.
For a while there, we were under the impression that the prime minister was the only one allowed to speak for Alberta’s tar sands. It was all on behalf of…
Far-Right Reaction To Tragic Shooting in Toronto Exactly As Expected
First, the most important part of this horrible tragedy is that two people, 10 year old Julianna Kozis and 18 year old Reese Fallon, were murdered and their names are…
Premier Horgan, where were you on Mount Polley?
Compare the passage of 4 years without a charge against Mount Polley operators to the quick response when a rude 19-year-old released an adult-sized blow-up doll over West Vancouver’s Ambleside…
New ferry will carry less than 10% of its passenger capacity
The bloated management of BC Ferries is addicted to an empire-building style similar to BC Hydro. With the exception of the Denman Island cable ferry, the company chooses not to…
So sorry to see you go so soon, Manning Centre … here’s your hat
Shed a tear for the Calgary-based Manning Centre, which Postmedia’s Cowtown website of record sadly reported yesterday is “stepping back from its advocacy work.” Since polishing up Tiny Tories to…
Read it to the end.
From The New York Times.
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats at rest.
An Report On Recycling That Is Complete … Garbage!
Another report / study comes up to show us consumers that we’re all idiots because we’re not separating metal from plastic on toothpaste or not eating grease-less pizza (is there…
Our Unshakable Habits.
A report in The Guardian yesterday reminds us that the world enters overshoot this year on August 1. As the article points out that means that next year we’ll be…
Can You Feel It? I Know You Can – If You’re Lucky.
Will 2018 go into the books as the year the world realized that we’ve entered a new climate epoch? Mega-summer, it’s been building for a while but it’s here now…
Gullibillies Take Another One Up the Butt from DJ Trump
It’s difficult to guess how incredibly stupid Trump supporters, his base, must be but we’re beginning to see some metrics. Take the Republican tax cuts that DJT loves to brag…
July 24:Lies and More Lies in this ‘Free World’
Sometimes, even the CBC is very, very dishonest. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/syria-russia-white-helmet-1.4749380 The White Helmets are NOT heroes fighting to save their people from evil Syrians. They are a propaganda group financed by…
Park Board approves landmark colonial audit
News Release Vancouver Park Board July 24, 2018 The Vancouver Park Board has approved an unprecedented audit outlining its own colonial history and actions and will seek an opportunity to…
Help wanted
Daisy is growing! We are looking for two people – one, a top-notch researcher/writer person with a knowledge of the provincial government. And, two, someone who is an equally-top-notch administrator…
Further Down The Road
For those whose sense of weather peril is somewhat muted, the following picture of a London park, the top part showing it in May, and the bottom part as it…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Matt Bruenig points out that public ownership of businesses produces a number of beneficial incidental effects, including by ensuring that knowledge and…
Saunderson’s abject desperation
I’m not sure whether I pity Brian Saunderson more for his lack of principles than for his lack of shame. Or both. Desperation makes people do things that common sense…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday July 24, 2018. Today we are talking about Employment Law. Did you know “use it or lose it” vacation policies…