Afghanistan Comes Full Circle
We had neither the will nor the means to win. Even if we did, we had no plan to win. Just what in hell were we doing in Afghanistan? What…
July 2021
Is Bigger Better? In TVs, Maybe Not.
I read on several websites that for a distance of about 3.6 m (12 ft) from the screen to the viewer, the optimum size of a television should be 85…
The smear campaign at the centre of the Green Party debacle
Green Party leader Annamie Paul speaks with students at a press conference in late March. Photo from Facebook. Last week, Annamie Paul added a new chapter to her deception in…
Where’s the transparency with an inactive police body camera?
Still image from a video showing Toronto Police officers pulling their firearms on rapper Twy Korchinksi Beals after he had finished shooting a music video. Screenshots via Twy Korchinksi Beals/Instagram.…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jennifer Lee reports on the debilitating lasting effects of long COVID. John Pavlovitz tells the story of his family’s experience suffering from COVID-19…
Saturday Photo: Wayward Grass….
The view at the Technoparc last Sunday: grasses and clouds and birds. There was a time that we did a lo of bird-watching, but kids and dogs got in the…
I Got Into It With a Republican Yesterday.
I was recently drawn into an online, Republican v. Democrat pissing contest. It began when this fellow claimed that America’s ills – the debt, the loss of its manufacturing base,…
America’s Roaster
If there’ll be any pattern emerging from the 2020s, it’ll probably be one of record heating. It’s happening world wide in the more equatorial latitudes. Some places are already registering…
Election fever
The Liberal government gives every signal that they intend to call an election in late summer or early autumn with the goal of converting their minority into a majority. One…
Election fever
The Liberal government gives every signal that they intend to call an election in late summer or early autumn with the goal of converting their minority into a majority. One…
Election fever
The Liberal government gives every signal that they intend to call an election in late summer or early autumn with the goal of converting their minority into a majority. One…
An Examination Of Conscience
When I was a young lad on the receiving end of a Catholic education, we had two regularly-recurring rituals. Once a month we would be led over to the parish…
Haiti
Forty-two years ago, my wife and I caught a flight from Montreal to Port au Prince. We went there not as tourists but as observers. Jean Claude Duvalier — “Baby…
Greens have Gotta Grow-up.
The greens need to knock off the foolishness. And it is stupid. For the news media to be so malicious as to encourage non-elected people to report on inner-circle doings…
Laura Dave’s The Last Thing He Told Me is Alberta Bookshops’ Fiction Bestseller for week ended July 4
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, July 4, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Musical interlude
Joywave – The Inversion
Survival of the unfittest… megaprojects
UC Berkeley scholar Karen Trapenberg Frick wrote of the 25 years it took for Californians to build a Bay bridge replacement. Dr. Frick said the project was “a cautionary tale…
California, Climate Emergency Poster Child.
California Dreaming’ – once was. I used to love riding the Pacific Coast Highway through northern California and the giant redwoods to the vineyards and wineries of the Napa Valley,…
The Great Game Never Ends
When then defense secretary, Colin Powell, warned George w. Bush that invading Iraq carried the Pottery Barn rule of “you break it, you own it” the neocons dismissed it. It’s…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Max Fawcett highlights why it’s foolish to throw out the protection face masks have provided both against a continuing pandemic, and other infectious…