Exploring electoral ennui in America.
The one overriding perception of the 2016 American presidential election was that people were angry. Their disgust with Democrat and Republican party politics was visceral. A wise host and hostess…
August 2018
A Week Like No Other
What a deliciously horrible week for Donald Trump. His former lawyer and fixer cops to eight felonies. Rat. His former campaign manager is convicted on eight felonies and faces a…
Robert Jones Finds a New He-Man Woman Hater’s Club to Cosplay With
I guess that I definitively can no longer refer to Robert Jones as a middle-aged Proud Boy. No, he's now a man going through a midlife crisis who wants to…
Mid-terms: the Canadian connection
The most beautiful #Democrat canvassing in South Portland! #USPolitics #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/8W3WJnsZpo — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 24, 2018
Musical interlude
Sloan – Believe In Me
The Day We Burned Ole DC Down? It was today, actually … 204 years ago
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Day We Burned Ole DC Down? It was today, actually. But if this was big news 204 years ago, when the fire was actually lit by…
Success with Succession (Part Four)
The New Brunswick election currently underway has methinking about voting. And while voting might seem like oneof those things that has nothing to do with monarchy, you’dbe wrong. Many monarchies…
A World Ablaze
Here’s the state of Planet Earth generated by NASA’s Worldview technology. In this photo, the red dots designate points on the planet where NASA’s thermal bands have detected actively burning…
This Could Send Trump Running Amok
What a week this has been for the Mango Mussolini. Cohen cops to eight felonies. Manafort convicted of eight felonies. Trump bestie, media mogul David Pecker, strikes an immunity deal…
Maxime Bernier’s bold move
Bernier and Scheer walking down the stairs at Parliament Hill • Photo from Public Domain Maxime Bernier, the 2017 Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) leadership runner-up, has announced he’s leaving…
"When You See Me, Cry" – Europe’s Hunger Stones Emerge
This year’s drought in central Europe has exposed stones in the Elbe River bed inscribed with ominous warnings. The low water levels in the river that begins in the Czech…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jesse McLaren and Kate Hayman discuss how better treatment of workers can reduce the strain on a province’s health care system: As front-line…
Maxime Bernier and the Humbling of Andrew Scheer
Moments after Maxime Bernier called his party "morally corrupt" and went storming off to form his own, Andrew Scheer tried to carry on, as if nothing had happened,But he just…
The Same Malcontents
The Conservatives are probably feeling pretty good this morning. A thorn has been removed from their side. Maxime Bernier was a sore loser. Gary Mason writes: The reality is, Mr.…
About That Odour In The Air
While The Great Pretender and his faux Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, continue to utter platitudes about climate-change action while visiting formerly Beautiful British Columbia, smoke is…
Heritage icon or white elephant?
Everyone recognizes the Collingwood terminals, one of the iconic (albeit unused) grain elevators on the Great Lakes, but it is actually the fourth on our waterfront. The first three were…
Is Trump really the king of Twits?
No, we do not shun social media. I have tried a few of them and I simply find them wanting. It came as a surprise that when I decided they…
JFK Airport Experience
“Saskboy doesn’t recommend John F. Kennedy International Airport.” Here’s the summary I left for them on Facebook: They weren’t able to let us deplane for an hour due to a…