When Caregiving Calls – A New Guide for Care
Today it is my pleasure to introduce the very wise caregiving expert and author, Dr. Aaron Blight. I can’t remember exactly where or when I first met Aaron online, but…
November 2021
The Glasgow Summit and the Triumph of Hope
I've landed in Glasgow, the old city by the river Clyde, many many times. But I usually never stay long. After an hour or two I'm usually on a train…
The United States has an unhealthy obsession with Cuba
Illustration by Brazilian political cartoonist Carlos Latuff/Instagram. The piggy bank was rattled again. In September 2021, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) gave $6,669,000 in grants for projects…
Unflappable No More
As the world continues its devolution, it becomes clear that few things can be taken for granted anymore. One of the casualties of the times is the erstwhile British unflappability,…
Canada’s "Winter of Political Discontent."
Even though the Trudeau Liberals eked out a win in the last general election, it was pretty thin gruel. Pollster Nik Nanos writes that, if anything, it was a vote…
The Last Progressive
Historian Andrew Bacevich sees Joe Biden as a progressive successor to Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Lydon Johnson. He also sees Biden as the president who…
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 15, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Man Pardoned After Spending 24 Years in Prison for Murder via @nytimes – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Eric Topol writes about the new wave of COVID-19 decimating Europe – and the level of denial required to pretend that the U.S.…
It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity
There’s something out of the ordinary about a monsoon. It’s the deluge that seems to go on and on. Enviro-Can reports that the east side of this island has recorded…
How to Avoid Billionaire Trolls
Figure 1 from Cook, Ellerton, and Kinkead 2018. CC BY 3.0 The biggest trolls in the world are also the richest. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp fame and Elon Musk of…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of November 15, 2021
– Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Corrected post on chord wheel construction
Revised Chord Wheel – Scripturient (ianchadwick.com) Fixed the broken links, added in the missing images, added a link to the chord-builder wheel as well. Apparently, when moving the old ukulele…
Sooner Or Later
Sooner or later, Michael Harris writes, Erin O’Toole is going to be confronted with his own failure: Sooner or later, Erin O’Toole is going to have to admit that his…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of November 15, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 15, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: The House select committee issued six subpoenas to top Trump campaign associates,…
No Amigos Here!
You heard that prime minister Justin Trudeau will be in Washington this week? He is having a visit with American President Joe Biden along with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López…
Rest in Peace, ‘Grassroots Guarantee’ – Jason Kenney’s famous promise is gone with the wind
You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but, as Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have observed, you…
wow!
I’ve been away (in Montreal) for several days. On returning I’ve learned that one of my students from many years ago is now one of our readers. John Watt was…
The Department of Education: The Nazis were good people too (or some such BS)
This week we learned that in 2020 the Dept of Education published a document recommending that teachers discussing Nazi atrocities also include material showing the Nazi’s policies strengthened Germany’s economy.…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – John Vidal discusses how the results of the Glasgow climate summit represents a failure by our leaders to act seriously in the…
This weeks Sparky: they do their own research
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