Joe Biden—a Teddy or an FDR?
Many progressives are hoping for great things from Joe Biden. The United States faces huge problems aside from the pandemic and its economic fallout. There is an opportunity here for…
2021
Even Pfizer/Moderna Vaccines No Match for Covid Variant
They’re the gold standard for Covid vaccines but that laurel may be fleeting. A laboratory study suggests that the South African variant of the coronavirus may reduce antibody protection from…
Ted, Ted, Wherefore Art Thou, Ted?
While his home state was in a frozen crisis, senator Ted Cruz headed for the sun and warmth of Cancun. Big problem. Cruz has a face as recognizable as a…
The Getaway
Poking around in Procreate. Always loved the selection fill tool in Paper discovered you can set a drawn selection to fill the shape. Play around with some brushes, layers, fills….…
The Path We’re On is Suicidal.
James Lovelock once depicted human beings as parasites that grow to numbers that overwhelm their host, Earth, sending the host into a powerful fever that, in turn, kills off the…
The Disaffected Lib Mk. II 2021-02-18 11:34:00
The Japanese government has been catching hell from the International Olympic Committee over its sexist policies. Former Japanese prime minister, Yoshiro Mori, headed Tokyo’s Olympic Organizing Committee until it came…
The Times in Which We Live – If You Can’t Govern, Lie
Don’t Mess With Texas – at least not while it’s neck deep in a mess of its own making. But when you’re the government, go for the easy out –…
Did I Hear This Right? Montreal Lifts Covid Restrictions. Third Wave Weeks Away?
It’s not easy to stay current with Covid developments in Canada, province by province, and yet it’s at the provincial level that many of the boneheaded decisions are taken. In…
‘No Country for Old Men’ and 40 years of Reagan’s America
Still from the Coen brothers’ No Country For Old Men. Image courtesy Miramax Films. To many politically engaged film fans, this year might seem an odd occasion to revisit Joel…
The Bum’s Rush
Rush Limbaugh is dead. Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency would not have happened without Limbaugh. Robert McFadden and Michael Gyrnbaum write in The New York Times: Since his emergence…
Highways Make Traffic Worse, Transit Improves Traffic
Regular readers of this site already know that highways are amongst the worst ways to move people effectively and also a way to ensure urban development is built to cater…
Justin Trudeau: forty more years!
We’re 54th in the world for vaccinations, our economy is hurting, Canadians are sick and dying, and the Leader of the Opposition starts Question Period asking about the Asian Infrastructure…
Our fearless leaders fix the gun problem.
Did you not see the sign as you drove into town that handguns are forbidden? That is part of the announcement that the government is banning assault rifles and municipalities…
Judge hopes to rule on Ecojustice effort to shut down energy campaigns inquiry before May 31 – why that shouldn’t be a problem
We’re all just going to have to wait to find out how the legal effort by Ecojustice Canada Society to shut down Alberta’s so-called “Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns”…
Papering over the rot
Art by Mr. Fish/Scheerpost The death spiral of the American Empire will not be halted with civility. It will not be halted with the 42 executive orders signed by Joe…
My latest: the Process Prime Minister
Process. That’s what lawyers always say to judges: The solution to process, Your Honour, is even more process. Now, Justin Trudeau is no lawyer, as everyone knows. His mauling of…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jonah Brunet points out the wide variety of definitions of the term “lockdown” in response to COVID-19 – with imprecision in the meaning…
Adios, Rush.
Rush Limbaugh has departed this mortal coil. Lung cancer. Age 70. Trump bid adieu, calling Limbaugh “a true American legend.” “In theory, he could have been gone four months ago,…
Just please tweet with the tags
Hey, I know this is probably not your fault, and is some obscure bug caused by someone else, and not your problem. I get it. Wordpress can email a post…