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Things are all messed up here. I can’t even write a private e mail to you. But – There’s bad news here. Where I live, one of the residents has…
2021
Looking Forward
Following Ben Werdmüller and Laura Ritchie, two members of a small eclectic Mastodon community I belong to, I am using the turn of the calendar to look forward and not…
Butch Lee / 1940-2021
Butch Lee liked to compare life to a busy transit system, in which people were always coming and going. Butch herself has left, died this passing year 2021, after a…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates December 28, 2021
Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/updates-28-dec-2021.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and…
An American Fears for His Country
CNN analyst, Bill Carter, like many of his countrymen, sees his United States broken, perhaps irreparably. Carter has seen America bruised and battered from the Kennedy assassination to the Viet…
Is America Turning Us Into Nervous Nellies?
Let’s face it, from Tea Partiers to QAnon to fundamentalist faux-Christians to heavily armed thugs who see nothing wrong with storming their nation’s Capitol Building, a lot of our neighbours…
Even For the Beebs, This Is Bizarre. Dershowitz and the BBC.
What were they thinking? When the BBC was looking for an expert to provide a little colour commentary on the Gyslaine Maxwell trial, the very last name on their list…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Patrick Wood and Mary Louise Kelly write that we still need to be managing COVID risk budgets to avoid contributing more to…
As The Year Closes Out
As 2021 comes to a close, if you are still looking for a worthy cause to contribute to and get a tax receipt from, I have a suggestion. But first,…
A Dismal Response
Our political class, Andrew Nikiforuk writes, have learned nothing from COVID: Three weeks ago Omicron, a variant more transmissible than TikTok, started another global conflagration. And thanks in part to…
One Way Maritimers can Drastically Reduce their Energy Consumption
Canada’s Maritime provinces are blustery, cold, and powered by coal. The weather is fine for most people (and lovely in the summer), but they know they need to transition to…
Covid Journal, Dec 30, 2021
What will be Ghislane Maxwell’s fate now that she’s been found guilty of helping Jeffrey Epstein run his sex trade for the elite? The post Covid Journal, Dec 30, 2021…
an analog breakthrough: in which we play tabletop games and this makes me very happy
In a few recent posts, I mentioned two details of my life that seemed to be in direct opposition to each other. One, I want to move further down the…
The Tzar of the Toll Roads.
It seems the taxpayers in Ontario are paying for the warm-up to next June’s provincial election. Premier Doug Ford is betting that any and all mention of the Bradford Bypass…
Reports on controversial coal mining plans received, says Alberta energy minister, providing little additional information
Midpoint between the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage yesterday issued an 85-word statement saying the government’s Coal Policy Committee has submitted its final report and…
A critique of obscene wealth
The obscenely rich have driven economies and societies further from anything remotely resembling a “level playing field,” writes Richard Wolff. Photo by aisletwentytwo/Flickr. Wherever and whenever obscenely rich people existed,…
Maxime Bernier, we know what you are
@maximebernier, who sued me for libel (and lost), condemns attacks on “freedom of speech” in his latest fundraising plea. Without irony. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 29, 2021 The post…
Left to Their Own Devices or Learning to Thrive Without America
Leaders of the Middle East may be rewriting their region’s history and, in the process, busting the myths of the West as their benefactor. The decline of American influence in…
Sending Crisis Response Teams instead of Police will save lives
One of the responsibilities of the police that could be eliminated is the role of social work and responding to mental health crises. As we’ve seen far too often in…