Toronto The Unready
WTF happened? Did the dispatcher pass out just before the storm hit? Did the plow-guy bust a leg trying to smuggle a hooker into the barracks through a back window?…
January 2019
Rempelsputin: An Experiment In Political Thinskinnedness
Ra ra RempelsputinLover of the Twitter BlockThere was a cat with really thin skin… When I was relatively new to Twitter there was a urban legend that I heard about…
First pick a direction.
It is ridiculous that people are speculating about the possible leaders of the Ontario liberal party so soon. We do have a choice. And the old adage says, we can…
UCP leader’s tweet fumbles response to Islamophobic group’s harassment of worshipers at Edmonton mosque
Perhaps United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney needs to engage someone new to compose his tweets for him. Mr. Kenney is a bright guy, so I’m assuming for reasons that…
Poetry by Smokii Sumac, two-spirited member of Ktunaxa Nation in B.C., tops Audreys Books Edmonton Fiction Bestseller List
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Jan. 20, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
Jan. 26:The hell with it!
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2019/01/los-angeles-teachers-win-victory-against-school-privatization For many years, the quality of American public schools has been going down. But that may now be turning a corner.Now, if we could only improve the quality of…
Kids These Days!
Here’s Greta Thunberg, 16, at Davos 2019, the World Economic Forum: At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable…
Standards of behavior
Integrity and putting interests of the public and the public service above personal interest seem to have been forgotten. Yet, it was not only James, Lenz and Speakers Linda Reid…
McCallum Axed
Canada’s ambassador to China, John McCallum, is out. Justin Trudeau asked for and received McCallum’s resignation last night. The Liberal stalwart succumbed to a bout of foot in mouth disease…
Will This Be the Final Nail in Trump’s Coffin?
Donald Trump rode one signature phrase straight into the White House – “Make America Great Again.” The TV show hustler convinced the Gullibillies, his base, that he was an unparalleled…
Saturday Photo: The Dude Who Divided the World..
The painting is of Pope Alexander VI (born Rodrigo de Borja, into the infamous/famous Borgia family) adoring the Christ Child, while Mary looks on. Pietro Facettio was the artist, who…
Can We Not Stop Ourselves?
It’s called AGW or anthropogenic global warming. It’s warming that is anthropogenic, i.e. man-made, and it’s global, just as humans now populate just about every corner of the Earth. Nobody…
Donald Trump, the Joker, and the Toddler Pageant
Donald Trump remember what happened yesterday for a long long time, maybe even forever. For by the time the day was over, he must have felt he was trapped in…
Andrew Scheer Plays the Racist Card. Again.
He's been waiting like a spider waits for a fly, to make the border issue the centrepiece of his election campaign.So he can appeal to the lowest instincts of Canadians…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Ploy Achakulwisat writes about the health emergencies emanating from an ongoing climate breakdown. And Andy Kroll points out that even in the U.S.,…
“Keep your enemies closer.”
Born in Chicago in 1901, my mother never did entirely lose the biases of her upbringing. She was something of a traffic hazard the way she drove her walker in…
Gone John Himpe
John Himpe was a radio and blogging wizard. Now he’s gone, at a young 38 years of age. Here’s his account of first getting on the Internet: Because there were…
Nouns of Odin, Now Re-Branded The Clann, Harass Edmonton Mosque Worshipers and Local Businesses
You know, it I once thought that making fun of the Aryan Guard/Blood & Honour name change as well as the rather lengthy and ostentatious Steven Blah Blah Myatt was…
Musical interlude
College – A Real Hero
Leadership, Democracy & Twitter
Recently I read an opinion piece in The Hill Times decrying the ‘Lack of Leadership’ in both the U.S. and GB given the current Cluster Fk in both countries. It…