Canada Stands Indicted
While I most assuredly cannot claim any virtue when it comes to climate-change mitigation (I still fly, probably the greatest environmental sin one can commit), I do understand the gravity…
February 2020
I love Joe
My guy. Brought back by a pal who was down there this week. Why do I think Iowa is good for him? When super delegates see him way down in…
Reading The Signs
Around the world, George Monbiot writes, tyranny is on the march: We see this at work in the United States today, where the Republican party’s blatant disregard for the constitution…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – John Clarke writes about the war on people living in poverty arising out of needless austerity: The OCAP years have seen the abandonment…
Can the Tory race get more boring?
This is ridiculous. So far, this is not a race, it is more like a baby crawl. The conservative party of Canada, midwifed by Stephen Harper at the turn of…
Trans Mountain Pipeline court ruling looks like a win for Alberta — as the world drives away in an electric car
You win some, you lose some. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney won one yesterday with the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal to strike down a challenge by a group…
News From Home – a film by Chantal Akerman
How long is a long take? That’s the question I was asking myself as I began watching this mesmerizing film which is basically a lot of long takes in New…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Opportunistic cats.
Linocut cat
Downloaded some previous version Procreate Lino brush tools. Basically the shapes of the cutting edge, work over a sketch layer over a middle or dark tone background, make the marks.…
Conservative Leadership Candidates and the Monarchy: Aron Seal
Photo Credit: Aron Seal Hard to believe that it has beenthree years since I last surveyedthe prospective leaders of theConservative Party of Canada. Asin 2017 there is a large number…
The EU Declares War
I apologize for the alarmist headline. The European Union hasn’t actually declared war, more a case of having recognized a war, a shadow war. Vera Jourova, Vice President of the…
Feb. 03: "We’ve won the war, now we’ve got to win the peace."
News media of most countries have always described enemy nations as evil and their own side as good. In the days of British Empire That was – or should have…
Trump to Honour Limbaugh with Medal of Freedom
I suppose it makes sense. One degenerate, racist bigot with a mile-wide streak of cruelty would choose to bestow a high honour on another degenerate, racist bigot who also displays…
Finally a government (publicly) gets it! New report out of Finland correctly describes the problems that come with peak conventional oil, and the bankers failed attempts at mitigation
One of the worst developments in the past decade in the slide backwards towards information irrelevancy, and a common misconception held by both the left and the right, is the…
Sinn Fein Swings Ireland
Polls suggest that Sinn Fein is in line to finish first in Irish elections on Saturday. Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Féin’s leader, said on Tuesday that Irish people wanted a…
Americans Get Real About Climate Change – Finally
For 15 years or more I’ve been following how Americans respond to the issue of climate change. It’s about as politicized an issue as any I can recall. The Repugs…
Mom, can I go to the SFH show?
Only if you dance, junior!
More Fails on the Leadership Campaign Trail
With two leadership campaigns going on in two different parties, you’d think we’d hear a lot about ideas, the candidates, their ideas and how they would make their parties better.…
It Is Not The Exclusive Domain Of Republicans
It being itolerance and homophobia, as this exchange at the Iowa Democratic caucus makes clear: Recommend this Post