NBA Cancels Season
A setback for hoops fans everywhere. The NBA has suspended the 2019-20 season after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday. The NBA made the decision…
A setback for hoops fans everywhere. The NBA has suspended the 2019-20 season after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday. The NBA made the decision…
This is starting to border on the absurd. Trump, who was initially dismissive of the coronavirus threat – until he worked out how to blame it on Obama – has…
Kevin Patterson at The Walrus has a great piece on the coronavirus. It’s different than the flu, faster, and our high-density living spaces aren’t helping contain it: “Famine and war…
Right now they’re destroying two amazing landmarks on the river, tall rock pillars called “The Gates” in an attempt to cut a channel of the river off and use the…
If it isn’t one damn thing it’s another. Reduce your carbon footprint. Reign in needless consumption. Do this, do that and, when you’re finished doing that, do this other thing.…
Democracy can be a messy thing in the best of times and sometimes partisanship can be a Hell of a drug. Regardless of those facts, democracy is the best way…
The French proverb plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose (the more things change, the more they stay the same) most aptly describes what has been happening at the…
When I saw Google/Pocket recommending this article on batteries for the grid, I was a bit concerned. It was contrary to what I understood to be the truth, so I…
I thought they had already made this movie: Miami-Dade County Commissioner Joe Martinez during an emergency coronavirus meeting yesterday praised county officials for refusing to cancel outdoor events owing to…
The World Health Organization has at last declared the coronavirus, Covid-19, a “pandemic.” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, made the announcement at a press briefing on Wednesday. Since first being…
The Daily Beast reports that disgraced movie mogul, Harvey Weinstein, has been handed an all-expenses paid, 23 year stay in the Greybar Hotel for rape and sexual assault. His counsel…
Last night on CNN, Michael Moore seemed resigned to the idea that Joe Biden will be the Democratic choice for president. Moore has been an ardent supporter of Bernie Sanders…
Covid-19 = Panic, mayhem, hoarding, greed. Let’s pause and put the HEART back into EARTH.
Sometimes, surprises come out of left field. In the United States, the coronavirus has come out of left field. And it has changed the American presidential race. Richard Wolff writes:…
As a public service, I again watched last night’s proceedings on CNN, and reported my impressions on the Twitter machine. As Joe racked up big win after big win, I…
Every delivery person knows that driving a truck through a city is stressful and dangerous. Our current delivery logistics tend to rely heaveily on trucks to transport goods to their…
Win, lose or draw, Bernie Sanders has shown his country the way. To Americans, their country has always been the stuff of unfulfilled dreams. It has been the country that…
There are a couple of points in his 1,000 page report where commissioner Richard LeBlanc refers to politicians and other officials of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador as being…