Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
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March 2020
Feb.31: And Worse
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/mar/30/self-isolate-giant-yacht-david-geffen-social-media I’m so happy for the super rich who can pass this awkward time at sea in their multi million dollar yachts. and their doctors and their services and their…
The Pensioner and the Pandemic and …
The Government Wants to Lock Me in My Room Well this blog post is taking somewhat of a change of direction from that planned, which was to focus on the…
The Future To Come…
The following short clip from a piece by Italian novelist Francesca Melandri, who has been under lockdown in Rome for almost three weeks highlights how our perspective will change over…
‘We Have Always Been Disposable’: the Structural Violence of Neoliberal Healthcare
COVID-19 is particularly dangerous for elders, particularly those with chronic illnesses. Photo from Flickr. The marriage of neoliberalism and the medical industrial complex has had disastrous results in Canada, even…
FEEL THE COMPASSION!!!
Finally, a provincial announcement about how Saskatchewan’s most vulnerable can meet their basic needs in a public health emergency which is depriving thousands upon thousands of people of income… Individuals…
Layoffs one day, billion-dollar pipeline giveaways the next — it’s not easy keeping up with the Kenneys!
Keeping up with the Kenneys will make your head spin. Yesterday, the Kenney Government was justifying the layoffs of 26,000 public-sector education workers by claiming there are limits to Alberta’s…
The Two Viruses: COVID-19 and Capitalism
We are living in a pandemic. These are unprecedented times. Not to worry: our political leadership is taking this all very seriously. They will do everything necessary, we are told,…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Anton Jager and Steven Klein discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a particularly strong clash in rhetoric between people advocating…
America’s Cocktail. Equal Parts of Denial and Death.
Paul Krugman writes that his fellow countrymen don’t realize that America is on the “worst trajectory” of any developed nation wrestling with the coronavirus and that includes Italy. I’m not…
Has the Pentagon Met Its Match?
The pride of the US Navy are its fleet carriers – massive, nuclear powered, nuclear armed aircraft carriers that have for decades been a critical asset for “force projection” around…
Chomsky On The Coronavirus: Perspective Is Urgently Needed
Chomsky clarifies the situation with the coronavirus, saying: it’s serious enough, but it represents not even a fraction of the biggest dangers we are facing, which are nuclear war, global…
Today in the Land of Crazy
I heard something curious on NPR radio this morning. It was Donald Trump announcing that America would be sending no longer needed medical equipment and supplies to Italy and Spain…
Folding@Home now Faster Than Fastest Supercomputer
Scientists can use your help folding. In particular they could use your computer to help understand how proteins fold. In order to understand viruses and ways to fight them it…
Listening To Our Better Angels
Readers of this space know that I have had little good to say about Doug Ford. But Martin Regg Cohn — who also has seen little to praise in Ford’s…
Talking Living in the Age of Covid-19 with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison and Lindsay Maskell on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the latest developments on Covid-19, the…
Dougie dumbs it down.
You get the impression that our Ontario premier goes to the office each day hoping to find new things to screw up for Ontario residents. Despite the tantrum he threw…
War Room will return, vows energy minister Sonya Savage, after government slashes propaganda unit’s budget for three months
Is it possible the United Conservative Party has a conscience? I know, I know, this seems highly unlikely. Even if it were true, like the Grinch’s heart, it’s bound to…
a reading plan for 2020: the (second) year of the biography plus… more?
On the final day of 2017, I wrote a short list of books of people and topics I wanted to know more about, authors I wanted to sample but somehow…