140Law: Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of September 7, 2020
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of September 7, 2020. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Sep…
September 2020
Don’t Share A Foxhole With Him
At the beginning of his administration, Donald Trump referred to the leaders in the Pentagon as “his generals.” But it didn’t take long for that relationship to sour. Consider the…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of September 7, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 7, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Appeals Court Denies Flynn’s Attempt to End Case Appeals court denies Michael…
So, who wants an election?
Americans do it every four years. Canadians sometimes do it more often. We are talking about federal elections here. Americans have never seen one like this one: the vote seems…
Capitalism will eat democracy — unless we speak up
Here is an open letter to the thinkers, scholars and activists of the world – a letter, unrevised, that I just sent to several friends, colleagues, and mentors. Hi folks,…
Dumkirk
Yes, I know in the overall scheme of things, the sinking of some of the boats in Trump’s boating parade this weekend is pretty trivial. But there’s nothing like trivial…
Is Alberta “slipping into authoritarianism”?
Guy Smith, president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE), sees a disturbing trend in the province. He suggests that, under the rule of Jason Kenney and his UCP,…
Alberta’s School Re-Entry Plan: It is what it is
These are unprecedented times, and they’re not being made any easier by Jason Kenney’s callous justification for his government’s half-baked School Re-Entry Plan, or Dr Hinshaw’s Order 33-2020 which was…
current musical obsession: electric president (ben cooper): safe and sound
It’s been a very long time since I’ve posted a musical obsession. I’m watching The Blacklist and I cannot tear myself away from this song. frame>
THE MILLSTONE OF HAPPINESS
Yesterday, I was driving to visit Nicholas, listening to the radio as I always do in the car. On air was an episode of Krista Tippet’s podcast ON BEING. Krista…
More Overt Racism In Calgary Soldiers of Odin Chapter
On August 29 two rallies took place in the city of Calgary. One was a BLM/Defund the Police rally at city hall which, despite attempts to harass and antagonize the…
More Overt Racism In Calgary Soldiers of Odin Chapter
On August 29 two rallies took place in the city of Calgary. One was a BLM/Defund the Police rally at city hall which, despite attempts to harass and antagonize the…
More Overt Racism In Calgary Soldiers of Odin Chapter
On August 29 two rallies took place in the city of Calgary. One was a BLM/Defund the Police rally at city hall which, despite attempts to harass and antagonize the…
Fragments of an anarchist in anthropology: The legacy of David Graeber
David Graeber, left, speaks at Maagdenhuis occupation, University of Amsterdam, 2015. To his left, political theorist Enzo Rossi. Photo by Guido van Nispen/Wikimedia Commons. On September 2, David Graeber died…
The Root of the Problem
Long-winded and verbose, typically does not equate to insightful, or even, necessarily, sane. Often the briefest statements are the most important: such as the Magna Carta, The Declaration of Independence,…
"at your library" in the north island eagle: kids bogo at the library
Kids BOGO At the Library September is Literacy Month in BC, and your library will be celebrating in a big way. During the month of September, we are offering “Kids…
The Dystopian Future Of “Education” Is Here
Kunstler is very worth reading, very perceptive, very thoughtful, and his general depiction of the decline and slow collapse of petrochemical industrial modern “civilization” is in broad strokes most likely…
Top Priority Reading: A Letter To All
Here is the letter I wrote for my son today, on his fifteenth birthday, advising him on important reading, based on my own 50,000+ hours of research, studies, reflection and…