Musical interlude II
One more tune to end 2021 – wishing all the best to readers in the new year. Counting Crows – A Long December
2021
The Covid Year 2021 and the Slow Death of the Cons
It's hard to believe that it's now been almost two years since Covid first appeared, and changed our lives forever. And even harder to believe that even after all we've…
The Case For (and Against) Blue and Red State America Going Their Separate Ways
The Washington Post is wrapping up 2021 with a look at why Blue and Red State America may need to part company and all the obstacles that stand in their…
Almost every famous and infamous person who died in 2021
Did you hear who died today? How many times have you heard someone say that? The death of a famous (or infamous) person is the kind of somewhat morbid news…
Musical interlude
Riton X Raye – I Don’t Want You
Review: Four Thousand Weeks
An anti-productivity book, of sorts. In most books that are either directly or indirectly about how we individually make use of our time, the goal is to enable the reader…
2021 in review
I don’t like to talk about how the year has been for me – because so many people are having a tough time. But for me, I can’t deny that…
Happy New Year! COVID, Conservatives and Kenney end 2021 on an ominous note
It would be an exaggeration to say 2021 is ending on an apocalyptic note in Alberta, or even a chaotic one, but it feels ominously as if the boat we’re…
Betty White. Dead Just Weeks Short of 100.
Betty White dead at 99. I never met anyone who didn’t like her.
More Good News on Omicron
I think we’ve all seen the pictures of crowded ICU wards full of patients intubated on ventilators as doctors and nurses try to keep them alive. We saw that with…
Rolling Stone’s New Years Eve Missive
I never expected Rolling Stone magazine to close out 2021 with an “end is nigh” message but these are curious times. The headline couldn’t be more dramatic: “The Fuse is…
All She Can Do Now Is Sing
Sammy “the Bull” Gravano openly admits he personally murdered the better part of a dozen guys and participated in many other killings. Did he get the chair? No. Is he…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Dan Diamond reports on the shortage of health care workers as the fifth wave of COVID crests in the U.S., while Carl O’Donnell…
Best album of 2021
Best album of 2021? This one, by Baltimore’s Turnstile, who are pushing the boundaries of hardcore and rock ‘n’ roll and dance music. They’re kids, but they’re brilliant. Just extraordinary.…
Best song of 2021
Best song of the year, by Montréal’s own bilingual, no-guys NOBRO-Better Each Day (Official Video) https://t.co/KfrMpv1qbW via @nobromusic — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 31, 2021 The post Best song of…
Happy New Year
As this year comes to a close, it’s clear that we will face several cascading challenges next year. They will test our character — individually and globally. Let’s hope we’re…
Dr. Henry’s Happy New Year. "We Are Going to Get To That Place" or The Gift of Omicron
British Columbia’s medical officer of health, Dr. Bonnie Henry, thinks the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus could transform the contagion from pandemic to endemic. “The way the virus is…
The Last Christmas Card.
The wife and I were surprised and pleased by the number of season’s greetings we received this December. This damn Covid-19 is not wiping out our entire generation. What we…
to Christina Decarie
Things are all messed up here. I can’t even write a private e mail to you. But – There’s bad news here. Where I live, one of the residents has…