Simply Ghoulish
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May 2020
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Polly Toynbee writes that the coronavirus has highlighted how poverty kills – and how a concerted fight against inequality is a precondition to…
Plague Update: Frugality Saves Itself
It’s become trendy to be thrifty. Frugal, even. There’s always been a case for being frugal, but now it’s more apparent to a society facing supply chain disruptions from an…
The Myth of a V-Shape Economic Recovery
The spin is in! The Trump administration’s economic ‘message bearers’, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Kevin Hasset, the president’s senior economic adviser, have launched a coordinated effort to calm the…
Trump Shows Up, Workers Greet Him With Music.
Donald Trump and his entourage put in an appearance yesterday at a Honeywell plant in Arizona where N95 medical masks are being produced. Team Trump decided they weren’t going to…
Covid-19. Where Do We Go From Here?
“Churchill: “Madam, would you sleep with me for a million pounds?” Socialite: “My goodness, Mr. Churchill… Well, I suppose… we would have to discuss terms, of course… ” Churchill: “Would…
And so it begins
Predicted to a friend yesterday that he’d start the “fake news” chorus within ten days, because he knows he has nothing left to save his political hide. I was off…
The Dishonourable Senator from Northwestern Ontario: Natural Consequences Come to Dryden
It was just a bit more than a week ago that I had the sad duty to report here on the sad inaction taken by the council of the City…
Disconnected from the Present
Yesterday here at this blog I wrote a piece about how certain political figures have shown an inability to look past their partisan stereotypes in order to rise to the…
The Third Quarter
Susan Delacourt writes that we’re entering the third quarter: Studies of people who have experienced isolation in outer space and the Arctic have apparently found that humans get testy and…
Amazon VP Resigns to Protest Poor Working Conditions
Amazon has grown from an online book retailer to the seller of all things and destroyer of established businesses. It also treats humans like robots and gives them no respect…
Stefan Molyneux Made a Video Called the Truth About the Nova Scotia Shooter, Yet Provided No Truth
Stefan Molyneux recently made a video titled “The Truth About the Nova Scotia Shooting” and much like many of his ‘truth about’ videos he tends to not provide any truth.…
Political Hope Rises
Rent strike graffiti spray painted on a building in Seattle. Photo from Twitter/@MW_Unrest. This is the first in a seven-part, multi-week series of commentary on the COVID-19 crisis entitled WHAT…
Who Knew?
Politics can be full of strange happenings. Canada had an election seven months ago. The guy who was prime minister is still prime minister and doing very well, thank you.…
Covid Journal, May 6, 2020
Today’s highlights: Trump tyranny, Ford fingering and food fail.
The Bow Wow Parliament creates a Kangaroo Court #nlpoli
The Bow Wow Parliament The first casualty of the current pandemic in Newfoundland and Labrador was democracy and on Tuesday, the pandemic added to its draconian toll. A handful of…
Donald Trump and the Video That’s Driving Him Crazy
Last Sunday night Donald Trump shocked most decent Americans by taking part in a Fox News town hall at the Lincoln Memorial.And making an absolute fool of himself over and…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Focused cat.
Kindness Repaid
A group in Ireland are raising funds to provide aid to America’s neglected Choctaw first nation. From the New York Times: More than 170 years ago, the Choctaw Nation sent…
My latest: Trudeau had no choice
After Nova Scotia, Justin Trudeau really didn’t have much choice. It was the worst mass-murder in Canadian history. Offering thoughts and prayers, as he had often noted, just wasn’t cutting…