“Oh K.” by SFH
New tune and vid! By me and @SFHPunks, pandemic style. (A bit mellow. Apologies. And I put together the video. Apologies for that, too.)
January 2021
Review: The All New Don’t Think of an Elephant!
Second edition from 2014 of a classic of US liberalism first released in the early George W. Bush years. The author is a cognitive scientist who has devoted much of…
Review: The All New Don’t Think of an Elephant!
Second edition from 2014 of a classic of US liberalism first released in the early George W. Bush years. The author is a cognitive scientist who has devoted much of…
a reading plan for 2021: big stacks of nonfiction, plus some fiction, and series for mind breaks
2018: Titles and reading projects that were languishing on my List. 2019: The year of the biography. The first time I created a reading plan for the year. 2020: I…
Saturday Photo: All’s Good, and the State of the World
All you need to know about Montreal in 2021: this industrial building in Mile End has not been used for that for a long time, as you can see. Don’t…
Are America’s Home Grown Terrorists Regrouping to Attack Biden’s Inauguration?
Was the attack on the Capitol building just a dress rehearsal for more domestic terrorism on January 20, inauguration day for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris? That’s the reason Twitter…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jesse McLaren offers a reminder that a COVID-19 vaccine isn’t a cure-all, as measures to help people through the pandemic (including paid sick…
The Case for a Second Trump Impeachment
It’s been a couple of days since the democratic world witnessed something, we never thought we’d see; the insurrection in Washington and the storming of the Capitol of the United…
The Day Donald Trump Was Finally Muzzled
For a man who hates losing so much, Donald Trump has lost a lot recently. He lost the election, he lost the Senate, he lost more than sixty court cases…
What You Need to Know: A #CdnPolicast – January 2021 Edition
Earlier this week I was happy to record the latest episode of Bluesky Strategy Groups “What You Need to Know: A #CdnPolicast” with my colleagues Susan Smith, Tim Barber and…
Now Is The Time
Lawrence Martin writes that Donald Trump has got to go — now: The storming of the Capitol building, more akin to something you might see in Belarus, was brought on…
Lasting in lockdown.
Happy New Year to you! We spend Christmas and New Years hunkered around the television binge-watching The Crown on Netflix. Nobody got our seasons greetings because just when I was…
Notice to Canadian Conservatives: de-Trumpification is coming and it’s time to burn your MAGA caps!
Is the United States about to embark on a program of de-Trumpification? Less than a week ago, that seemed highly improbable. In the aftermath of the startling events of the…
The American Republic Is On the Ropes. Will History Repeat Itself?
Two millennia ago there was another great Republic, Rome. It too was brought down, not from without but from within. It too had fallen into the hands of a megalomaniac,…
If You Were Hoping Americans Would Finally Have an Epiphany
Newsweek thought, in the aftermath of Trump’s terrorist attack on Congress on Wednesday, it might be a good idea to consult Republican supporters. Were they aghast? Were they finally done…
Musical interlude
Best Ex – Gap Tooth
Trump Tries Coup, Fails, Gets Twitter Ban Finally
It took almost 2 days following the attack on the US Capital by GOP terrorists, but Twitter banned the ring leader Trump from their platform, after first only giving a…
Jan.9 Down, Down, Down, Down…
Forgive me. Writing this blog has been extremely painful for me. Yes. There are people on the other side who do evil things to us. But let’s get serious. We…
DISABILITY PLANNING FOR MY CHILD: HOW TO BEGIN NOW
I talk to lots of different people who have a role in supporting families of children with disabilities. This week, I had an interesting chat with Bruce Maier, a financial…