Le Salon du livre anarchiste de Montréal: les 26 et 27 mai 2018
Préparez vos calendriers … LE SALON DU LIVRE ANARCHISTE DE MONTRÉAL 2018 Deux journées : samedi le 26 mai et dimanche le 27 mai De 10h à 17h les deux…
2018
A Crackpot Posing as a Genius
I’ve been noticing many articles, recently, about the plight of loneliness. It’s now linked to anxiety and depression, and addiction, and a former US Surgeon General calls it the most…
Personal Will, Anyone?
Question: What do Stephen Hawking and Shamsia Husseini have in common? Answer: They both know the power of personal will. Ms Soapbox has been thinking a lot about “personal will”…
Well Here’s Your Problem, "Patriots". You Engage In Infighting Because You’re All Assholes
I know. Not exactly a dignified title, but the theme of the Islamophobic and bigoted "patriot" movement in Canada attacking each other has really become a cliché at this point.…
Doug Ford and the Rise of the Beastly Bigots
You don't see or hear much from Doug Ford these days. The Team Harper gang who are running his campaign are clearly planning to muzzle their monkey.And turn his bus…
A Simpsons milestone nobody is celebrating
According to the Internet (which, as we know, is never wrong), if you were to watch all 552 episodes of The Simpsons, it would cost you 12,144 minutes of your…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Martin Wolf reviews Mariana Mazzucato’s The Value of Everything, including its distinction between value creation and value extraction. And Yvonne Roberts points…
We get letters: a Jordan Peterson fan pops us a line
The best part is his email address at the top.
Full Of Sound And Fury
… signifying nothing. So says Macbeth about life in Act V Scene 5 of Shakespeare’s eponymous tragedy. He might also have been talking about the ‘policies’ of the Justin Trudeau…
Ford’s Definition Of Change
Doug Ford became the leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party by forming an alliance with Tanya Granic Allen. Martin Regg Cohn writes: Homophobia. Islamophobia. Anti-abortion hysteria and harassment. Demonizing…
Arguing ad nauseam with auditors.
Ontario auditor general Bonnie Lysyk looks like an auditor. She also thinks as an auditor. She is one of those people who always cover themselves by saying that they do…
April 28: Not a good time to be born.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-border-protesters-killed-wounded-1.4638663 When our news media were given the (fake) story of Syria dropping poison gas on 20 or so children, the whole western press ran the story with indignation, and…
An Excellent Introduction to Neoliberalism. It’s Essential to Grasp How Its Adherents in Our Political Caste Undermine Democracy.
A lot of us see neoliberalism, manifested in the rise of market power and the spread of globalism, as a plague on society. It is a plague on democratic society.…
Andrew Scheer’s Most Miserable Birthday
It will be his birthday soon. One year since since he became Con leader and began his crusade to become Prime Minister.After a Con leadership race marred by the lack…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne rightly criticizes the World Bank for trying to push discredited and inhumane trickle-down economics as a substitute for viable economic development.…
With Each Generation
This week’s van attack in Toronto is a reminder that misogyny and hate in general are alive and well in the 21st century. Jonathan Freedland writes: By a quirk of…
Gomery the Second?
I am reliably informed that the new Ontario government may well launch an inquiry into the fees paid, here, and also to a certain Wizard and an allied “speechwriting” firm,…
Saturday Photo: Blue Grass, Sort of, on a Foggy Mountain…
The photo actually is one I took several years ago in Chicago of scylla blooming in a park. But my front yard looks similar right now as the lovely little…
$70,000 a month: massive PC majority on its way
If true, it means a big, big PC majority – because the progressive side of the vote is perfectly split. You’re doing a great job, Wizard – for Doug Ford!