April 16 The Emmpire strikes back.
Those who read the April 14 edition of this blog will certainly have noticed the misspellings and even bizarre statements. I very much fear my computer has been hacked. (Indeed,…
April 2020
The impatience of Donald Trump.
While Canadians have mostly been enjoying the unusual unanimity of their federal and provincial leaders in this time of the pandemic, the situation in the U.S. is reversed. In a…
Alberta spends up to $20K touting medical mask giveaway on Facebook to build social license for pipelines
The Alberta Government spent between $14,000 and $20,000 on Facebook advertisements promoting Premier Jason Kenney’s announcement Alberta would donate 750,000 N95 medical masks and other personal protective equipment to Ontario,…
He’s going to lose
When somebody is President of the United States, the responsibility is total. pic.twitter.com/hmhkBymGob — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 16, 2020
Plague Update: Canada, Ontario, etc.
Ended up stumbling onto The Agenda, and this episode was great for anyone interested in the plague, or in city planning to respond to it. If you want to be…
Angkor Wat: Reflections On Our Modern World
~*~ Angkor Wat is the crown jewel of a 400 square kilometer set of temples and holy sites, set in the jungles of Cambodia. Built as a Hindu temple in…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dan Gardner writes that the COVID-19 pandemic is exactly the type of rare but severe event which should be the subject of thorough…
Rules For Good Communication – Both In Writing, and Verbally, and In The Arts (Along with core points on the philosophy of language, knowledge, perception, consciousness, ontology and epistemology, and the nature of being and reality – and lessons on how not to be long-winded!)
Here are a few thoughts on writing and verbal communication, and all forms of communication. As an author, writer, reader, lover of books, and philosopher, I believe I have some…
Dangerous Misinformation in a Dangerous Time
In western society over the past few years we have seen the effects of disinformation on our society and our politics. We have seen them spread easily and have an…
Evidence that a Trumpism strain is alive and well within the Conservative Party.
Witness this humdinger of an interview by Sarnia-Lampton MP and current Conservative Party leadership contender Marilyn Gladu. Apparently we should be following the lead of President Trump: Sarnia-Lambton’s MP wants…
The Great Unraveling. Could the Climate Crisis Be the Ultimate Victim of Covid-19?
We’ve always known it would take a Herculean effort and an enormous amount of luck to forge the global consensus needed to tackle climate breakdown. In a dangerously overcrowded world…
Trump is good at one thing – lying
Donald Trump hasn’t had many achievements. Now, before the Spring of 2020, he and his cabal would point to the economy and the stock markets, of course. Trump would regularly…
Government Inaction on COVID-19 Threatens Inmates’ Lives
Photo by Matthias Müller/Flickr Imagine that you are having a nightmare in which you are living a happy life when a deadly and highly contagious pandemic strikes. The voices of…
Not Helping the Team: The Next Examples
A while back I wrote a piece here about politicians from around the World who have been not helping things with some of their words. In a time when we…
When Home Is Dangerous
Six years ago, we moved my mother into a nursing home. It was a good home. It was expensive. But she refused to go, and we had to have her…
Being Weird is Great for Community
It’s OK to be weird, if anything it’s good that you’re weird. The old adage to “just be yourself” rings true and you should embrace it by embracing other people…
The good and the ugly in tough times.
It has been more than a few years since I was traveling around Ontario lecturing business students at our universities. At the time, the subject of my lectures was the…
Trends #nlpoli
How do you keep in place the very necessary and successful restrictions on public life needed to combat the spread of CVD19 when the success of those measures reduces the…
That goofy letter from Kingston to Jason Kenney — promise made, promise kept?
Now, about that goofy letter from Kingston, the one wherein the generous author or authors sent Alberta Premier Jason Kenney $1,000 to help out the Alberta treasury, I have a…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cat amid mayhem.