We’re all struggling to take in the magnitude of coping with a global pandemic. Personally I’ve had to cancel a long-awaited vacation to vist family, and with libraries closed, I…
MiT’s tech review, The Download, is often a font of great information you won’t find in the funny papers. Today’s edition opens with the editor-in-chief explaining that the life you…
Andrew Nikiforuk writes that COVID-19 is a wildfire: A pandemic is like a wildfire. The more fuel it finds, the hotter it burns and before you know it is running…
Pay no attention to the left side of your screens. Goldstein has been very busy. This video on Fox News messaging around the coronavirus is really something. They are truly…
Stuck inside due to the coronavirus? Why not learn to garden so when the good weather comes you can socially isolate yourself while also feeding yourself? Rob Greenfield was nervous…
It is well past the point where Canada should be doing something to eliminate the false monarchy in this country. It is not only a sham but it is interfering…
As Lyndon B. Johnson famously explained, in politics, chicken poop can turn over night into chicken salad. Those weren’t exactly the words used by the late United States Senator from…
You will find evidence at In-Sights proving government policies and subsidies have cut public revenue from petroleum and natural gas producers to a tiny fraction of what it once was.…
Things are awful and they’re going to get worse – the economy is going to tank, maybe worse than it did in 2008, and hundreds of thousands of people are…
March 17 2020 The City of Vancouver is implementing additional facility closures and service modifications as we continue to review operations in response to COVID-19. These measures are intended to…
I read this book last summer, but people are suddenly talking about it (and his earlier book) all over the place for some reason – maybe because we’re just seeing…
There are plenty of graphs and charts circulating that convey the idea that this novel coronavirus is a trifle compared to the savage viral contagions of the 20th century. That…
A dearly departed Tigger… …and a mourning feline friend.
Haaretz is an Israeli newspaper, and one of the world’s best. I don’t use it much for my blog because it costs money – and there’s a limit to how…
Don’t worry, I haven’t been eating out. But I do have a few backlogged meals I now have time to blog while distancing, which brings me to my craving a…
Beamsville, Ontario’s Dillon’s Distillers is diverting some of its whiskey operations into producing disinfectant alcohol and hand sanitizer needed to help combat the Covid-19 pandemic. In the States, a number…
