Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Yutaka Dirks reviews Lars Osberg’s The Age of Increasing Inequality, with a particular focus on how matters have been getting worse in recent…
October 2018
Why Andrew Scheer’s Prison Game Is So Dangerous
As we all know Andrew Scheer is having a…um… jolly good time. Playing prison guard, and exploiting the memory of a murdered child to try to smear Justin Trudeau.In a…
Two essays on Trump, populism and fascism
These two essays landed in my mailbox on the same cold and dark Fall morning. Both are lengthy, but worth your time. They mirror my mood. Former Prime Minister Harper’s…
Insidious, Contagious, Poisonous, Corruptive
Roger Cohen’s reflections on the Kavanaugh hearings are instructive. Everything eventually makes its way back to President Trump: Insidious is the man. Insidious is his pollution of the F.B.I., whose…
Saturday Photo: Thanksgiving….
This is a photo I’ve used before, but I really like it since it shows the beautiful hesitation that Nature goes through here before closing down for the winter. It…
Can Ontario liberals renew their party?
You can hardly package a new political party along with decaying fish and hope to win plaudits. And that was what it must have felt like last weekend when the…
The Bromantics on stage: Jason Kenney and Doug Ford mount the rostrum in Calgary to attack Justin Trudeau and carbon tax
Give Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party their due: They got a large and enthusiastic crowd out last night to their rally in Calgary against taking action on climate…
Musical interlude
Big Wreck – Digging In
Eat the Rich – Unless They Get You First
When the Trump administration recently sought to justify scrapping Obama’s initiative to substantially improve vehicle fuel economy, it used what seemed to be a bizarre argument: we’re already screwed so…
Four heads
Wow. Picked a neglected brush in a Procreate and drew these (bragging) with no underdrawing, but direct. All lively accidents intact.
The New Criminal Enterprise – Our Very Own Aristocracy
One thing that separated the aristocracy from the plebs was the rule of law. Sure, in theory you might hang a nobleman as quickly as you would hang a peasant…
Not That Facts Matter Anymore
I wonder what would he say if someone sexually assaulted his Ivanka??pic.twitter.com/jBs13S7q4F https://t.co/Cvg4Hs4ZKd — Maggie Resists Trump (@Stop_Trump20) October 4, 2018 Recommend this Post
Kavanaugh’s tirade to the US Senate Judiciary Committee – Because that is what bullies do
Wouldn’t it have been better to try and mend fences? Perhaps show some empathy? You know. Show some judicial temperament? Yes, of course that is what a person would do…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Nicholas Shaxson writes that the UK’s disproportionate dependence on the financial sector is akin to the resource curse facing Western Canada among so…
So Is Stupidity
As an old Quebecer, I was particularly interested in Michael Harris’ take on the recent Quebec election. Harris writes: The landslide victory of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) is a…
Lisa Raitt and the Con Waahmbulance Chasers
In my last post I looked at how Lisa Raitt had finally managed to provoke Justin Trudeau into losing his temper, and letting the Cons know how he felt about…
How do you like Premier Ford so far?
When you throw a question such as that into the general chatter today, you can really stop people cold. Recently, I threw the question to a group of fellow poker…
There’s a meeting in Calgary tonight, and the people there are going to be very, very angry
Two well-heeled older men who never wanted for anything during their upbringings and now live comfortable, privileged lives will be getting together in Calgary this evening to talk about just…
A new Patrick Brown scandal? The $10,000 payoff
Huge story from Canadaland: Diana Davison is an internet personality who has described herself as an anti-feminist, a journalist, and a men’s “civil rights activist.” She is a popular YouTuber,…