The "Marie Antoinette" of the U.S. Senate
It was a Republican Congressman from New York, Peter King, who first branded Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, the Marie Antoinette of the American Senate. Mr. King was responding to…
April 2020
Covid Journal, April 23, 2020
Is there a debt reckoning coming? Will it lead to austerity or freedom from debt? We have a choice to make, but had better set out on the right path…
Dear Mr. Horgan and Ms. James, This is the truth you’ve been dodging these last years:
Dear Mr. Horgan and Ms. James, This is the truth you’ve been dodging these last years: Stop, right now, stop pandering to Coastal GasLink and the ongoing Site C fiasco.…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jane McArthur and Filipe Duarte discuss how the response to the coronavirus pandemic is confirming the importance of collective responsibilities. Amanda Harvey-Sánchez…
what i’m reading: political graphic nonfiction: wobblies, studs terkel’s working, people’s history of american empire
Continuing the series, started here. I’ve decided not to review these books, but instead to post a cover image and a quote. It was difficult to choose quotes for these…
Dog whistling to the Leadership
As the World has responded to the threat of Covid-19, we’ve seen some amazing examples of people putting aside partisan difference, coming together, and working to help all of society.…
The Hits Keep Coming.
This certainly beats having to write something for my blog. Thanks to my friend Dom for sending me the following: Recommend this Post
The End Of Oil
Nafeez Ahmed writes that the coronavirus may be the death knell of the fossil fuel business: Policy-makers are still in denial as to how long this demand slump will last.…
Push: A Documentary on the Housing Crisis
Push from WG Film on Vimeo. When housing prices collapsed in the USA a decade ago corporations saw an opportunity to buy a basic human need and profit off of…
What Jinping, Putin, Trump have in common.
Why are we surprised if American president Trump wants to be named president for life? The man hardly wants less than his counterparts, Xi Jinping, president for life of China,…
Already reeling from bad news, Alberta learns its Crown investment corporation just lost $4 billion on a bad bet
Albertans reeling from the shock of a week that’s included oil prices so low you have to pay people to haul the stuff away and a mishandled COVID-19 outbreak at…
Is Andrew Scheer Hoping To Succeed Himself?
Andrew Scheer has always been a weird bird. He's a religious fanatic, a racist, a misogynist, a homophobe, and a climate change denier.But lately his kooky behaviour appears to be…
Boris Johnson, Covid -19, and the Verdict of History
Because my parents live in Scotland, I'm forced to worry about the fight against Covid-19 in the UK where the Con clown Boris Johnson rules.Who after surviving his close encounter…
A Not So Modest Proposal – An excercise in creative writing…
Balphus was pleased, things were going well. No operation ever goes off without a hitch, there are almost always surprises that weren’t anticipated, but so far there hadn’t been any…
Rachel the political forecasting revolutionary
A commonly held belief on ideology in politics is that it can be distinguished by its placement on a spectrum. This spectrum came originally from a seating arrangement in the…
Rachel the political forecasting revolutionary
A commonly held belief on ideology in politics is that it can be distinguished by its placement on a spectrum. This spectrum came originally from a seating arrangement in the…
Rachel the political forecasting revolutionary
A commonly held belief on ideology in politics is that it can be distinguished by its placement on a spectrum. This spectrum came originally from a seating arrangement in the…
With A Little Help From The Feds
Sorry (not really); I just can’t help myself: Recommend this Post