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>
2020
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…
California – Just Can’t Catch a Break
California has been making headlines for the resurgence of the Covid-19 virus. And for this year’s wildfires that eclipse the devastating wildfires of previous years. And the heat, what about…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Don Pittis discusses how the spread of modern monetary theory is challenging some stale assumptions about government budgeting. And Sarath Peiris highlights…
In a compelling call to arms, Seth Klein presents inspiring vision of Canada’s response to climate crisis
A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency Seth Klein ECW Press, 2020 In May 2019, the The Guardian made an important decision when it decided to stop using…
The Recovery
Kevin Page writes that we need to do some hard thinking about our economic future: The political and economic stakes are high. With the prorogation of Parliament, triggered in part…
Will communism as a dominant political ideology ever make a comeback
I took the title from a discussion on Quora about whether Communism is dead or will re-emerge, and if so under what conditions. I don’t believe that the author of…
A Paywall for All?
It looks as though the news media people who are trying to collect from Facebook, Google, et al for using their output are going to regret it. Having government involved…
We get letters: the Trumpkins write in
Best part: the guy who says I am “fucked in the head” is also a “top fan.” 
Sept. 5: The disaster that is my life.:
I’m still having trouble getting my items onto the page. However, there is one thing I can do. I can apologize to Israel. No. I don’t like Netanyahu. No, I…