But, Herr Richter, I Vas Only Following Herr Trump’s Orders.
“C’mon, judge, cut me a break. Trump made me do it.” Their militia was called the Crusaders and their mission was to slaughter Muslims living in Garden City, Kansas. They…
October 2018
Oct. 30: It’s not my fault. I just report on the news.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/29/end-game-how-australian-preppers-are-bugging-out-and-hunkering-down_______________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/national-yukon-glaciers-climate-change-kaskawulsh-1.4873035 https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/living-plant-wwf-2018-1.4882819 Stories like the above – and worse ones like the very little time we have to deal with climate change – explain why I think New Brunswickers…
A Blast From the Past – Harry Truman
Donald Trump brings the past back to mind in so many ways. There are people out of our dark past that he closely resembles. There are people from the past…
Is He That Desperate or Just That Low?
Donald Trump, his latest wife, the Jewish kids and that guy, Mnuchin, descended on Pittsburgh to stage a personal appearance at Tree of Life Synagogue, the site of the Trump-inspired…
Biodiversity, Climate Change, and the Attack of the Ocean Cockroaches
Earlier today I wrote about a new report that shows that in the last fifty years humanity has wiped out 60% of the mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles who share…
Election 1 yr away; Battle on Carbon Pricing Favors Liberals
We have seen Conservative Governments in Ontario and Saskatchewan balk at carbon pricing and the Federal Conservatives basically trying to use the old “tax on everything line” they used with…
Timothy Snyder – How Trump Follows the Fuhrer’s Playbook
Yale professor, Timothy Snyder, has drawn some eerie parallels between Donald Trump and, yes, that German fanatic who rose to power in the 30s and dragged the world into the…
How The Migrant Caravan Is Exposing Trump’s Extremism
The irony couldn't be greater. With the midterm elections now only a week away, Donald Trump is stepping up his insane rhetoric.Accusing a caravan of desperate men, women, and children…
Three Little Words That Caregivers Long to Hear
My friend Julie Drury is the bereaved Mom of her beautiful daughter Kate who passed away after a long journey of illness and pain resulting from mitochondrial disease and the…
But the Worst Part…
Pretty grim news today. Since the early 70s, the human species, has caused a 60% drop in the population of all other terrestrial species. And we have bumped that loss…
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 8
Syndication Syndication is the core of the cMOOC approach to learning and we haven’t talked about it at all yet. It’s pretty easy to get caught up in things like…
Vancouver Sun Letter
I have a letter in today’s Vancouver Sun, not so much supporting proportional representation (although I do support proportional representation) as addressing what I consider to be baseless objections to…
The Extinction Barometer – 50% in 2014 – 60% in 2018
The 2014 Living Planet Report was – or it should have been – shocking. It reported that the world had lost fully half of all land-based life in just 40…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew Jackson argues that Canada has nothing to gain in trying to race Donald Trump to the bottom when it comes to…
Vancouver Sun Letter
I have a letter in today’s Vancouver Sun, not so much supporting proportional representation (although I do support proportional representation) as addressing what I consider to be baseless objections to…
Prescient Pontypool
Pontypool changes foresaw everything. I watched this indie Canadian movie a long time ago. So long ago that I rented a DVD of it. It was an enjoyable and well…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday October 30, 2018. Today we are talking about Employment Law. Did you know that certain terms of an employment contract…
Humanity’s Horrifying War On Animals
If the animals who share this planet with us could send us a message, it would be that one.But is it already too late?For at the rate we naked apes…
Eco Crises: Doom & Gloom, Truth & Consequences
…We can’t save the world by playing by the rules because the rules have to change. Everything needs to change and it has to start today….To all the politicians that…
Unless The Republicans Are Removed . . .
There is a myth going around these days in the United States. In the midst of the violence, some are claiming that both sides are equally responsible. Paul Krugman writes:…