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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 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.…
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…
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.…
Today’s highlights: Trump tyranny, Ford fingering and food fail.
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…
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…
Focused cat.
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…
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…
As most people all over the world are crashing into poverty, the super-rich all over the world are piling the money up. Yes. They are. That’s why we still get…
Where are you, God?
