The Relentless, Indefatigable Chip Franklin
Most days I stop myself from reposting Chip Franklin’s hilarious screeds. Today is not one of those days. If you're a Trumper, and you think I'm a liberal doling out…
April 2020
A Madman
There are those who still confidently predict that Donald Trump will win re-election. But Frank Bruni writes that Trump is self-destructing before our eyes: As Katie Rogers and Annie Karni…
April 25 COVID News
The following COVID-19 resources may be useful to many of you; if you know of similar resources not on this list, send me an email and let me know. i…
April 26: Multi-City Caravan Against Imprisonment
Sunday, April 26 12pm – 5pm est (depending on time zones) facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/620446565216500/ On Sunday April 26, migrant justice & prison justice groups from coast to coast will again be…
26 avril: La caravan multi-villes contre l’emprisonnement
26 avril 12h – 17h (diff. Fuseaux horaires) facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/620446565216500/ Dimanche le 26 avril, les groupes pour la justice carcérale et en immigration d’un océan à l’autre s’allieront à nouveau…
Justin’s magic bag of money.
Watching the daily news conference by the prime minister the other morning, I lost track of how much money he was promising. No doubt our news media people are keeping…
Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel returns to top of independent bookshops’ fiction bestseller list
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, April 19, 2020. The lists are compiled…
Musical interlude
CHVRCHES – Out Of My Head
Neoliberalism & The Death Of The Middle Class
The death of the middle class is due to a very conscious, four decade class war, known as neoliberalism. (See Chomsky, Profits Over People, and, Requiem For The American Dream.…
Planet of the Humans Review
So I just noticed I’m getting a lot of traffic for a post I wrote 8 months ago that advertised the release. Back then I wrote about some concerns with…
Plague Update: Trump Keeps It Clean
We all know what a stable genius the President is, you really have to admire him coming up with quality solutions on the fly during a press conference. Medical doctors…
Conservatives Struggle with Science
When conservatives talk about “the elites,” and they talk about them a lot, it isn’t always clear who they are talking about. They certainly aren’t referring to the rich, who…
The Cowardly Andrew Scheer Reveals His Inner Racist
I have always known that Andrew Scheer was a hideous racist, as well as a grotesque misogynist and vile homophobe.But somehow our mediocre media has always given him a pass,…
Nostalgia For Simpler Times
I generally am not one for nostalgia, having a strong preference for living in the present, and looking to the future. Further, I rarely write in conversational colloquialisms. But I…
They Don’t Matter Much to Ottawa But They’re Cherished Out Here.
From dwindling salmon stocks, to fish farms and supertankers, Ottawa sees the BC coast as just something to be monetized. Yes, yes, Vancouver is Canada’s largest port, our commerce gateway…
Thanks, Avi. Thanks a Lot.
The chair of Harvard’s astronomy programme, Avi Loeb, has taken the opportunity served up by the pandemic to burst our illusions. Following a century of scientific and technological advances that…
A Bit of Perspective
As Washington’s spending on the Covid-19 pandemic creeps toward $3 trillion, it can be really hard to make sense of that much money. What to use for comparison? Oh, I…
Kindred Spirits: Tuscany, Navarre, and Captain Picard
I was curious about Navarre, after watching Star Trek TNG “Family”, and seeing that Captain Picard is from (outside) a small village in Navarre. What a fascinating place, rich in…
Lockdown measures are like having a “no peeing” section in a swimming pool.
I have a lot of empathy for those who are upset with current lockdown measures, there is a lot of damage being done. And I’m not just talking small scale…
You Have to be Shitting Me – Friday Edition
As America rides the Covid-19 tiger, the lunatic-in-chief is in freefall. Apparently a letter reached Loon One this week from a guy pitching bleach as a cure-all for the virus…