Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Owen Jones points out how attempts to primarily blame the public for the spread of COVID serve primarily to distract from unsafe workplace…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Owen Jones points out how attempts to primarily blame the public for the spread of COVID serve primarily to distract from unsafe workplace…
What has happened to America? You decide. Recommend this Post
Is it better to be known for your friends or your enemies? When does a dissenter become the hero? Or is dissent the sad role of the aged curmudgeon? I…
Tony Burman writes that the United States is beginning to look like Germany in 1933: Each day since the siege of the Capitol, there have been stunning revelations about what…
Members of the Proud Boys rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, November 28, 2020. Photo by Anthony Crider/Flickr. The federal NDP has called for the far-right Proud Boys to be banned…
Construction goes on despite Covid-19, concrete and cement continue to be made–with all that implies for global warming and quality of life. I’ll be talking about that and about my…
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Metric – Gold Guns Girls
Notable author and blogger Cory Doctorow got a call from the FBI for his blog anniversary. Yes, it's harassment, and the FBI enabled it by not doing some investigating to…
I have always been intrigued by people’s tendency to believe what they want to believe rather than what the facts are telling them, to believe what their innate biases desire…
It's Erin OToole's worst nightmare, the one that wakes him up at night screaming MAGA MAGA MAGGAARGH!! For just over four months since he became Con leader he was able…
“You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy.” So says Davos founder and oligarch-in-chief, what’s his name….Vlad the Impaler? No, wait…Klaus Schwabb. In any event, you’ll own nothing, while the billionaires…
Just as the number of Covid-19 infections is rising, the promised supply of Pfizer’s vaccine is turning into just that – a promise. It seems the American giant is having…
Protesters gathering outside the United States Capitol before a riot and violent attack carried out by a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump, January 6, 2021. Photo by Blink…
It is not just Ontario residents who are confused. They are in a “lockdown” that nobody understands. The wife and I very much wanted to see an old friend this…
Theresa May was a truly mediocre prime minister of the United Kingdom. She was weak, hesitant and grasping. Yet, of all her sins, perhaps the worst was her decision, weeks…
A man draped in a Trump flag looks on while demonstrators march to the United States Capitol building to protest President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, January 6, 2020. Photo by Tyler…
The relationship — such as it was — between Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump is over. Susan Delacourt writes: The last conversation between the two men was on Oct. 10,…
Ford brings in a lockdown, treating us like prisoners, not providing enough direction for us to know if we’ll be punished for simply … living. Selfish snowbirds: what to do?…
Forget impeachment. Forget the 25th Amendment. Forget all that. They’re too late, and they don’t matter. For sure: Donald Trump, the Mango Mussolini, will slink out of town like the…