More funny stuff
One of the things I love about Twitter is the funny people on it: I ate a box of Thin Mints, didn't get thinner. I don't think they work ?…
August 2020
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Sara Mojtehedzadeh reports on the severe uncertainty facing far too many as the CERB is set to wind down with nothing but vaporware…
Musical interlude
Interpol – Obstacle 1
What outcome for Bolivia’s crisis?
Marches organized by the Bolivian Workers’ Center (COB) and the Pacto de Unidad move through El Alto. Starting on August 3, more than 100 roadblocks were set up throughout the…
Pumps not needed on the Cowichan River this year
Wet year so far has resulted in higher water levels Originally published by the Cowichan Citizen Robert Barron The pumps at the weir on Cowichan Lake won’t have to be…
A Secular Bible Study
My book A Secular Bible Study is now available. I based this book off of classes that I have been teaching online to homeschooling students. My classes are for students…
Endangered landscape at further risk because of North Cowichan logging British Columbia’s most endangered landscape
Endangered landscape at further risk because of North Cowichan logging British Columbia’s most endangered landscape is at risk from logging. But don’t look to a heartless profit-driven private corporation as…
Our house …
In the middle of the street Just futzing with brushes and pens and tools in Procreate. Make a mark and see what it turns into into. Sometimes they remain scribbles…
Why Not Just Make Them Walk the Plank?
The rightwing government currently in power in Greece is testing a new solution to unwanted refugees cluttering up its beautiful islands – haul them back out to sea. The Greek…
Canada’s post-pandemic response: Socialism for the rich, austerity for the poor and working class?
A woman walks past a boarded up shop in Richmond East, Toronto. Photo by Timothy Neesam/Flickr. Too often, discussions about the deficit are laden with the perceived inevitability of austerity…
What? Are You Kidding? Three Months?
Those bastards! The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, better known as the CDC, report that those who contract, survive and recover from the Covid-19 virus receive immunity. That immunity…
A Reporter Waits Years to Ask Donald Trump "The" Question.
Huffington Post’s White House correspondent, SV Date, is usually a spectator when Donald Trump stages a press conference. Trump, like his press secretaries, tend to invite questions from a select…
There’s No Going Back. We Need to Start Imagining Our Future Before Someone Else Does.
It’s not that the Covid-19 pandemic is as cataclysmic as the Black Death or even the Spanish Flu of 1918. There’s a good chance it won’t be – BUT… The…
Brexit and the European Union Revisited
This was my view on the proposed European Union from the beginning: I am in favour of open borders, free and fair trade, cultural exchange and international cooperation; however,…
wmtc "what i’m reading" posts to celebrate black august 2020
I thought Black August was something newly created by Black Lives Matter, but it turns out it has existed since the 1970s. I’m sorry I haven’t heard about it sooner,…
Why The Rush?
In Ontario, there is a rush to get back to school. Bruce Arthur asks, Why the rush? On Thursday, provincial Education Minister Stephen Lecce delivered yet another version of the…
With a questionable claim to the moral high ground, Postmedia rolls over for the Rebel
Canada’s largest newspaper chain has just rolled over for the Rebel. Last night the National Post published an editorial demanding that the Alberta Legislature Press Gallery admit employees of Rebel…
Site C: Government failure to safeguard the public interest
That Ralston, Horgan and colleagues knew about cost pressures and risks three years ago and chose to proceed shows the NDP wholly owns this fiasco. Had Site C been stopped…
Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Macdonald discusses the opportunity to transition from the temporary CERB to a permanently-improved income support system for Canadians – along with…
Canada, eh?
I did not know – Quebec is nearly triple the size of Texas or France…which makes it roughly the size of Mexico. Wow. And that is just one Canadian province.…