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…
2021
White, Affluent AND Being Held To Account?
What has happened to America? You decide. Recommend this Post
In defense of dissent.
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…
Condemned To Repeat History
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…
Banning the Proud Boys—be careful what you ask for
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…
Saturday Photo: Let’s Do Lunch at the Atwater Library
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…
Booker Prize winner Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart is Alberta independent bookshops’ fiction bestseller for week ended Jan. 10
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…
Musical interlude
Metric – Gold Guns Girls
Cory’s 20th Blogiversary Cake With FBI Icing
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…
Democracy and mass delusion
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…
Erin O’Toole’s Scary MAGA Nightmare
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…
They Want It All
“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…
Pfizer Tells Canada, "Sorry." Remember When Canada Was a World Leader in Developing Vaccines?
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…
America invades itself
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…
Ford unlocks his lockdown.
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…
A Trip Down Memory Lane
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…
The Capitol raid and ‘real-existing democracy’
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…
It’s Over
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,…
Covid Journal, January 15, 2021
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?…
My latest: Trumpism is here to stay
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…