How Bad Is It? See For Yourself.
It seemed to begin with the wildfire that swept through Lytton, B.C. forcing the villagers to flee with just the shirts on their backs. Then, within two days, there were…
2021
[Jaws theme]
The Great White Joey moves silently towards his prey. The post first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Simon Lewis discusses how Western Canada’s heat dome and associated catastrophes offer a warning that nobody is safe from the effects of a…
A Meeting of the Minds?
Niccolo Machiavelli and Michel de Montaigne never met, nor could they have — Machiavelli died six years before Montaigne was born, and they lived about 1,200 km (800 miles) apart…
BC’s Latest Summer Accessory Must-Have
Preppers call them “bug out bags.” In British Columbia we prefer the more subtle “go bags.” Go bags may not include ammo and skinning knives but the general idea is…
Isn’t It a Bit Like Paying Someone to Marry Your Daughter?
How desperate do you have to be to marry off your daughter if you have to “hire” her groom? A dowry, sure, but this? The province of Newfoundland and Labrador…
How Does Canada Atone?
I have a practical suggestion to partly address the title’s question, but I’ll leave it for a future post. Today, some letter-writers from the print edition of the Toronto Star…
Wisdom from the East, Clarified: Paradigm shifts, dying ideologies, and real feng shui vs fast food feng shui
E=MCsquared. Energy = mass x the speed of light squared. What does that mean? Among other things, it means this. Einstein showed matter and energy and interconvertible. In fact, both…
Saturday Unphoto: From Bloomberg Green on Wild Fire
By Linda Poon The worst day for human-caused fires in the U.S. is July 4. That’s a particular problem this year, as a historic heat wave and record drought have…
Cheerio, old chap
Mark Carney: jets over to Wimbledon during a pandemic. Tut tut: masks are for the underclass. The post Cheerio, old chap first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
Ignorance Is Strength
Paul Krugman writes that, on the Right, ignorance has become a necessary qualification: On the right, expertise isn’t just considered worthless, it’s viewed as disqualifying. People with actual knowledge of…
Grievances of the Greens.
What can they be thinking? The rank and file of the Green Party of Canada must be outraged. The idea of a dust-up between the executive of the party and…
Priorities
A tweet written by Jeffrey Levin made sense to me. So, I produced a Canadian version.
Something is dragging the federal Conservatives down in Alberta – is it Jason Kenney?
It sure looks as if Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s abysmal performance is not merely threatening the survival of his United Conservative Party Government, but is dragging down the federal Conservatives…
Sing, Unburied, Sing by American author Jesmyn Ward tops Alberta independent bookshops’ fiction bestseller list
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, June 27, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Hell-Fire
Dakota Smith, a meteorologist at Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, said in a tweet that he observed “absolutely mind-blowing wildfire behavior in British Columbia.” He included satellite…
Hell-Fire
Dakota Smith, a meteorologist at Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, said in a tweet that he observed “absolutely mind-blowing wildfire behavior in British Columbia.” He included satellite…
Hell-Fire
Dakota Smith, a meteorologist at Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, said in a tweet that he observed “absolutely mind-blowing wildfire behavior in British Columbia.” He included satellite…
Here’s some stuff to cheer about!
Well, it doesn’t look like we’re going to be able to celebrate the Habs winning the Cup, so here’s some stuff we CAN enjoy! First, some very good boys: This…
Musical interlude
Marshmello feat. CHVRCHES – Here With Me