As Lyndon B. Johnson famously explained, in politics, chicken poop can turn over night into chicken salad. Those weren’t exactly the words used by the late United States Senator from…
You will find evidence at In-Sights proving government policies and subsidies have cut public revenue from petroleum and natural gas producers to a tiny fraction of what it once was.…
Things are awful and they’re going to get worse – the economy is going to tank, maybe worse than it did in 2008, and hundreds of thousands of people are…
March 17 2020 The City of Vancouver is implementing additional facility closures and service modifications as we continue to review operations in response to COVID-19. These measures are intended to…
I read this book last summer, but people are suddenly talking about it (and his earlier book) all over the place for some reason – maybe because we’re just seeing…
There are plenty of graphs and charts circulating that convey the idea that this novel coronavirus is a trifle compared to the savage viral contagions of the 20th century. That…
A dearly departed Tigger… …and a mourning feline friend.
Haaretz is an Israeli newspaper, and one of the world’s best. I don’t use it much for my blog because it costs money – and there’s a limit to how…
Don’t worry, I haven’t been eating out. But I do have a few backlogged meals I now have time to blog while distancing, which brings me to my craving a…
Beamsville, Ontario’s Dillon’s Distillers is diverting some of its whiskey operations into producing disinfectant alcohol and hand sanitizer needed to help combat the Covid-19 pandemic. In the States, a number…
COVID-19 surged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019 and by January 2020 it had hit Hubei province like a tidal wave, swirling over China and rippling…
During WWII America mobilized the country’s industrial base and put it into armaments production. Automobile manufacturers switched rapidly to churning out tanks by the thousands and car plants built giant…
This site offers a compelling reminder of the magnitude of Covid. VERY small. Let’s hope it stays that way.
“Here’s to a bad plague and a vicious season.” I heard that line from an old friend, a former naval officer. Apparently it originated from subalterns, junior officers, in the…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Owen Jones writes that the coronavirus is offering a stark lesson in how inequality kills: The coronavirus pandemic is about to collide…
Stephen Lendman described and contextualized it well in his article, “US Indifference to Public Health: The Shame of the Nation” (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) He wrote, “Both…
The BBC has a very timely article on our new global virus and how it can be transmitted. Hint: public transit may not be a good idea. There has been…
