October 6:
The format of this blog today will be directly from me to you because I am still wrestling and swearing at the way this computer works – and often doesn’t.…
2020
Down the authoritarian rabbit hole with Alberta’s United Conservative Party
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announces new measures to limit COVID-19 in the province, March 17, 2020. Photo courtesy of the Government of Alberta/Flickr. The many transgressions of Alberta’s United Conservative…
Will Gaslighting Carry the Day on November 3rd? In Post-Truth America, Does It Matter?
When it comes to gaslighting there’s no master of this dark art like El Presidente, Donald Trump, and it could be his best hope for winning re-election. Gaslighting, in which…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Elizabeth Kolbert examines three of the main scenarios for our climate future – with the option of using existing technology to make…
The wondrous recovery of Donald Trump.
You have got to hand it to the boys and girls over at Walter Reed military hospital. They had a cure ready for their leader when he needed it. How…
Pope Francis Chimes In
Pope Francis is not afraid to take on the issues of his time. Last week he issued an encyclical on the problems that beset us. Catherine Pepinster writes: In this…
Graphene as a Limitless Power Generator
Graphene has long been heralded as an amazing new material that can change entire industries and revolutionize the economy. Notably this has yet to happen. Yet. At the University of…
America, the Ungovernable
Even if the Democrats win the White House next month not much will change. Joe Biden, even if he had the energy and determination to crush the plutocracy and resurrect…
Unpublished Ottawa: Throne Speeches, elections and more
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"Don’t Be Afraid of Covid" Trump Tweets
Donald Trump walked out of Walter Reed hospital this afternoon tweeting that he’s never felt better. Now he’s got some wondering if his bout with Covid-19 wasn’t staged. “Don’t be…
Donald Trump’s Grotesque Coronavirus Horror Show
The first thing I did this morning when I got up, was check to see whether Donald Trump had died. He looked so bad in a video he made at…
Review of Hugh Segal’s Bootstraps Need Boots
Hugh Segal has written an engaging personal and political memoir and plea for basic income. Here’s my review in Alberta Views.
It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity. No, It’s Both.
Of all the climate change impacts, heat is the most immediate and proximate. This decade will usher in the era of extreme heat. It was seven years ago that climate…
Feeling a Bit Nervous?
Many of us are experiencing some measure of apprehension about what awaits the United States in the run-up to the November 3 election and in the aftermath. Where is Hunter…
Talking COVID-19 in the White House & the Second Wave of COVID in Canada on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We discussed the COVID-19 diagnosis of American President Donald…
Tweeting on drugs
Just say no.
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of October 5, 2020
Here are our Top 10 law tweets for the week of October 5, 2020. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Oct 5,…
Another Trumpeteer Succumbs to the "Trump Virus"
Donald Trump’s Covid Crew has a new member. His obnoxious White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, is Covid positive. Kayleigh says she’s going to ground for 14 days which should…
The Venus Virus