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December 2019
2019: The Nightmare Year With the Happy Ending
I must admit that at times during the nightmare year of 2019 I wondered whether I would be able to make it, even on all fours, to the year 2020.The…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Slumbering cats.
Dec. 31. We have to change – soon – because our eonomic masters won’t – not ever.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/29/moscow-resorts-to-fake-snow-in-warmest-december-since-1886 Don’t worry. Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario himself, says there is no such thing as climate change. And he knows, you know, things. Thirty years ago, we were…
Age of Oblivion: Another End of Decade Rant
Of course calendars are a construct and don’t mean anything, but the end of the year and, even more so, the end of the decade are useful times to take…
Happy New Year – We Are All Going to Die
Yes, we are all going to die and that’s it, the end. Except for the Christians, of course, they get to go to an afterlife of either heaven or hell.…
Decades, centuries and millennia
January 1 is NOT the start of a new decade. To the CBC and the other arithmetically-challenged media who insist otherwise: it isn’t. You just don’t understand how to count…
How Trump’s neoliberal agenda is destroying democracy
President Donald J. Trump Speaks at the 2019 National Association of Realtors Legislative Meetings on Friday, May 17, 2019 at the Marriott Wardman Park. Photo by Brian Copeland (Flickr). The…
Canadian scene
A few Canadian tweets to finish out the year: Only in Canada eh https://t.co/AQwmru6GOs — Raging??Granny/ Resistor & Team Trudeau (@RagingLibNana) December 30, 2019 Exactly five years ago today, I…
The Year To Come
“Now is the winter of our discontent.” The line which Shakespeare gave to Richard III seemed to be on everyone’s lips last year. Everywhere people were in the streets. But…
Dis: As the decade, and the year, come to an end
…I’m grateful. I have been reading a lot about gratitude lately. I was prompted to do so by my amazing ex, who sent me an article by an Australian guy…
Trudeau hears from Harder.
Former government leader of the senate, Peter Harder had some advice for Justin Trudeau as he retired from the senate. He expressed the hope that the prime minister might consider…
Foresight is 2020: It wouldn’t be New Year’s Eve without a Top Ten List of political predictions
This year, foresight is 2020! It wouldn’t be New Year’s Eve without AlbertaPolitics.ca’s Top Ten Political Predictions for 2020, so your blogger will gaze into his crystal ball one more…
The Most Consequential Decision of the Decade
This is the time when we commonly look back over the year, or decade, or century, and pronounce our choice of the most significant event or events. There are endless…
Talking the Biggest Political Stories of 2019 with Kristy Cameron
This afternoon as I waited out a power outage on this stormy holiday Monday, I had the chance to join Kristy Cameron on “Ottawa Now” with Katlyn Harrison and Shane…
Warsaw and Moscow’s Cat Fight
Russia and Poland are exchanging insults over – World War II. Russia likes to see itself as a victim of the war. Poland, however, has been depicting what was then…
A "Cornerstone of Democracy"
Few things, it seems, better focus the mind than the prospect of a stretch in the Greybar Hotel. ‘Beleaguered Bibi’ Netanyahu, facing corruption charges, told the Likud party faithful that…
The Triumph of Heresy – Chris Hedges
Christianity in America has succumbed to heretics and it gave up without so much as a fight. That’s Chris Hedges’ take on the rise of radical Christianity in the United…
The 2010’s – A Decade in Review Part II
Having given you the first part of this series for the decade of the 2010’s, it’s now time to give you the rest of the list. You can check out…