Our Least Recognized Existential Threat – Over Consumption
We tend to hear a lot about climate change and a fair bit about overpopulation but we hear less about our rapacious and, for the moment, growing over consumption of…
2018
Racist March and Counter-Protest in Hamilton: Updates
Yeah, yeah, I slept in a little later than I thought I would. I’m going to provide updates here concerning the planned racist march on Locke Street as well as…
Okay, Don, And Where is Clarence Darrow?
To hear the Mango Mussolini tell it, Donald Trump is up to his cellulite in top legal talent just waiting to sink their fangs into failing Robert Mueller and his…
The March For Our Lives: Turning Sorrow Into Resistance
Before the March For Our Lives began, I knew it was going to be an extraordinary event.Because those young Americans had already impressed me with the way they had confronted…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Vanessa Brcic offers some observations on the connection between poverty and health, including the importance of ensuring marginalized people are treated with…
A Tonic For The Soul
Those who read this blog with any regularity would most likely describe me as an inveterate cynic. Indeed, it has become my default position. Nonetheless, when I see goodness and…
What Will We Do About Myanmar?
When the slaughter in Rwanda occured — twenty-five years ago — the nations of the Western world pleaded ignorance. Gerry Caplan writes: Many in the Western world were indeed ignorant…
marching for their lives: the student activism around gun violence gives us reason to hope
In my continuing (and usually failing) goal of remembering to write about things here, instead of just posting to Facebook, I feel I should write something about the student organizing…
from the 2018 cupe ontario library workers conference: libraries and the opioid crisis
I recently attended the CUPE Ontario Library Workers Conference, which has become a highlight of my year since I first attended (and was elected to the organizing committee) in 2015.…
Political Correctness Gone Mad
Service Canada’s front-line staffmust “use gender-neutral language or gender-inclusive language”to avoid “portraying a perceived bias toward a particular sex or gender,” out of respect for the country’s “diverse” population according…
The Tree by the Woodpile by Alberta’s Raymond Yakeleya tops last week’s Edmonton Bestseller List
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended March 18, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books by the Book Publishers…
AggregateIQ and Brexit, the Canadian Connection Partly Explained. Alleged Campaign Expense Violations.
Just what everyone needs. Three or four new names to add to the snowballing cast of characters in the AggregateIQ/Brexit/Cambridge Analytica/Trump campaign scandal. Not only is the volume of names…
Russian Roulette – Conclusion
My impression of “Russian Roulette” is that Michael Isikoff and David Corn have produced a fine book, a worthy read, that happened to get overtaken by events. Had it been…
Trump’s New Litter – Bolton, Pompeo and Haspel, Three Buckets of Ugly.
That’s what you get when you have an addled authoritarian head of state with an incoherent worldview who brings in a stronger guy who has an utterly diabolical worldview. We’ll…
Mentally Mobilized for War
In August, 2014, a leading German financial paper, Handelsblatt, warned of a dangerous spread of war fever throughout the West. Even smart people are not immune to controlled bouts of…
March 24: The Worst News I Have Ever Seen.
Today, I am suicidal. I have just spent hours writing half of the blog – and it suddenly has disappeared. Lately, this has been a problem at all three of…
I love a parade
Well, fuck face, you wanted a parade. @POTUS #MarchForOurLives pic.twitter.com/tQzvvK3dX2 — Ron Pederson (@RonaldPederson) March 24, 2018
Watch this to the end
At the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, Florida school survivor Emma Gonzalez weeps quietly for the majority of her speech, which lasted 6 minutes and 20 seconds —…