Our friends, our enemies
Think hard. Europe went to war in 1939. The U.S. did not. Wasn't that strange? In fact, the U.S. capitalists didn't give a damn about Europe. Thepr interest was in…
December 2021
Our friends, our enemies
Think hard. Europe went to war in 1939. The U.S. did not. Wasn’t that strange? In fact, the U.S. capitalists didn’t give a damn about Europe. Thepr interest was in…
And a Very Merry, Extremely Rare, White Christmas from the Wet Coast
I have exchanged greetings with friends and family from Ottawa, Stratford, Tottenham, Simcoe, Wheatley and Leamington today. They all painted the same story of dreary rain and damp cold. Now,…
Christmas fun
Glenn Miller, with the Modernaires, Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers. Nominated for the Oscar: And more Nicholas Brothers, with Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton and the Modernaires. Another Oscar nominee:…
Christmas haul, revealed
Thank you, Santa! @Puglaas @chixdiggit @TheClash @IggyPop @RealBlackUhuru @PublicEnemyFTP @emmakinsella95 @Jake__kinsella @kinsuela99 @suzanneamos63 pic.twitter.com/ax5PnwHfgW — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 25, 2021 The post Christmas haul, revealed first appeared on Warren…
There’s got to be a pony.
Here it is Christmas Day and I am still looking for a pony in all the piles of political poop we have endured in 2021. Maybe it has been a…
Musical interlude
Agnes – Here Comes the Night
Kinsellamas
This is kind of how you do Christmas 2021. pic.twitter.com/Srh32ZopNn — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 25, 2021 The post Kinsellamas first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
Ted Byfield, talented rhetorician and paleoconservative activist, dead at 93
Ted Byfield, publisher of the influential Alberta Reports Magazine and similar hard right spinoffs, died Thursday at 93. Edward Bartlett Byfield was born in Toronto on Bastille Day, 1928. Mr.…
Merry Christmas Hanukkah Kwanza and Festivus!
My Christmas wish for all of you. pic.twitter.com/z7aa0VrC3B — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 24, 2021 The post Merry Christmas Hanukkah Kwanza and Festivus! first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
Saturday Photo: Sunrise on Christmas…
Over the hump, the days will be getting longer soon.. Best wishes for a wonderful holiday. Here’s the link to our blog: https://soderstromyule.blogspot.com/
Chomsky’s Lessons from 2021
Yanis Varoufakis spoke to Noam Chomsky, at DiEM25, about what 2021 has taught us. In a nutshell: the wealthy puts profits over people to their own detriment (e.g. patent rights…
Legal Tweet of the Day: December 24, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Toronto police used Clearview AI facial recognition software in 84 investigations #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Katherine Wu, Ed Yong and Sarah Khang write that the Omicron COVID-19 wave is seeing governments make the same familiar mistakes in an…
What a Year
It’s been a record-setting year in many places. Here in British Columbia we’ve had our hottest year ever recorded, our wettest year on record and, now, it looks like we’ll…
Is Erin O’Toole Trying To Change His Ugly Image?
Ever since Erin O'Toole became Con leader he has crawled through a political sewer of his own making. He has fired off one vile attack ad at Justin Trudeau, he…
Midway Through This Life’s Journey V.2
For some inexplicably serendipitous reason, I pulled Mary Jo Bang’s translation of Dante’s Inferno (Graywolf, 2012) from my bookshelves this week and began re-reading it. I didn’t like her version…
Is Omicron in Your Near Future?
The headline in the National Post speaks for itself: “It looks like we’re all going to catch Omicron.” Tristan Hopper’s column begins with two facts: 1. One in ten Canadians…
Merry Christmas
My wife and I received our boosters yesterday. I received mine from a retired doctor. He was there to make things work. Several other retired health care workers and members…
Marley’s ghost visits Doug Ford.
It seems that Jacob Marley’s ghost got short shrift in Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. Think of how busy the guy would be in this Christmas of 2021. There are…