How Long Can the GOP Live Within It’s Own Skin?
For some time, Old School Republicans have argued that their party has gone too far, it’s beyond redemption. Their solution – burn it to the ground and start over. It’s…
2021
Prison Covid Newsletter (vol 2, no 2), Jan. 2021
The Prison Covid-19 Information Project provides COVID-19 news and resources for prisoners and their families and loved ones on the outside. Their latest newsletter is here. They have also added…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates Jan. 12, 2021
NOTE: If you regularly send the updates to Rattler or Joseph Dibee, please stop. Rattler has been released to a halfway house; Joseph has been released to home arrest while…
Der Speigel And Donald Trump
The following was sent to me by a friend: No American president has been more incendiary than Donald Trump. He has been the subject in recent years of 28 DER…
Musings of a B-Film Junkie
I put a DVD of the 1939 film, The Gorilla, into the player and sat back to watch. Bela Lugosi (above, centre) starred beside the Ritz Brothers (trio above), a…
Brian Pallister’s long war on workers must mark a new era for labour in Manitoba
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister announces new COVID measures during a press conference as part of a public health enforcement strategy dubbed ‘Operation Safe Apart,’ April 9, 2020. Photo from Twitter.…
Trump as Comic Relief
There’s a word you don’t hear everyday – “ghastly.” That, however, is the prognosis for the future of humankind in the summary of a report published today in the journal,…
Partisanship I’ll Never Understand
It’s been a week since the World looked on and saw the insurrection at the United States Capitol and a lot has happened in that week since. Today is a…
It’s not your father’s liberal party.
When Pierre Trudeau resigned his leadership of the liberal party in 1984, it was a robust organization with supporters across Canada. The president of the party was B.C. liberal Iona…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Bruce Arthur calls out Doug Ford’s choice to blame his constituents rather than himself and his government for a gross lack of leadership…
A Perfect Storm
Yesterday, Ontario premier Doug Ford issued a stay at home order. But Bruce Arthur writes that it’s too little, too late: Tuesday, Ontario’s scientific modelling painted a picture of COVID-19…
Want to Help People Escape Crazy Conspiracies? Read This
2020 witnessed the rise of an absolutely bonkers conspiracy theory based around some anonymous internet poster. You may know somebody who believes the illogical thoughts that led to the insurrection…
Teachers are bound to be furious about UCP’s Christmas coup to consolidate control over their pensions
If the Kenney Government’s Christmas Eve coup to consolidate control over $18 billion in Alberta Teachers Retirement Fund assets shows anything, it’s that the United Conservative Party’s investment strategy is…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Curled-up cats.
The Con Clown Erin O’Toole and the Ezra Levant Show
I have always believed that Erin O'Toole is a far-right fraud posing as a moderate. When he is really the would be leader of Canada's Trump Party. He might fool…
The Self-Defenestration of Andrew Scheer
As this week has started, it’s been interesting to watch some in the Conservative movement on social media as they react to what has happened over the past week. Between…
Varieties of anti-capitalism for a 21st century economic democracy
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century Erik Olin Wright Verso, 2019 A year into a once-in-a-century pandemic that has already killed millions, it has become morbidly clear…
Voltaire on Trump
Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities. Isn’t that the essence of Donald Trump?
A long, long time ago …
A long, long time ago I can still remember how that music used to make me smile… “I’m going to be explaining this song forever …” Recognize those lyrics? If…