We should have seen this coming …
On Wednesday morning, I was tinkering with a blog I wanted to call “We’re going to miss you know who”. The rough idea was that when a certain American president…
2021
I Tried. Close But No Cigar.
When I got up yesterday morning I was almost immediately hit by the realization that it was the 6th of January, the day when the final results of two senate…
Donald Trump’s Shameful Day Of Crazy Evil
Donald Trump was already a very sick man, mentally ill and increasingly desperate. As CNN correspondent Jim Acosta reported, a senior GOP source had warned that Trump is "out of…
Three major threats to life on Earth that we must address in 2021
Photo by Mike Marrah/Unsplash Large parts of the world—outside of China and a few other countries—face a runaway virus, which has not been stopped because of criminal incompetence by governments.…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Macdonald examines (PDF) the continued pay gap which sees CEOs rake in more money the morning of the first day of…
We are coming back.
Yes, we are starting to get the urge to write. It has been a longer hiatus than intended. Today we are just doing a test with one of our favourite…
Coming Apart at the Seams
Yesterday should have been a day in the United States that should have been a pro-forma, ceremonial step towards the usual peaceful transition of power. Yesterday we should have been…
A Catalyst To Evil
Yesterday, Donald Trump unleashed his mob on Washington. With fourteen days to go in his presidency, Americans — and the rest of the world — have the full measure of…
Covid Journal, January 7, 2021
Donald Trump was, is and will always be seen as a product of a country without leadership.
“The shining city on the hill.”
…what a load of crap. They’re something far, far less. They’re barely a democracy, now. So, the next time an American tells you they have the greatest democracy in the…
Why Just Food Matters
Everyone needs to eat, yet even in our democracy there are people with low access to food and the food they can get is low quality. This shouldn’t be the…
Broken windows fascism (ThreeWayFight)
1. When Donald Trump was first running for president in 2015-16, a lot of alt-rightists supported him not because they thought he could win, but because they hoped he would…
Alberta premier piously pleads for restoration of order in Washington, smooth ascension of Joe Biden to U.S. presidency
“Alberta has always had close ties to the United States, so it’s painful to watch the bizarre scenes unfolding at the U.S. Capitol,” Jason Kenney lamented yesterday, presumably tweeting from…
Nero loses his fiddle
The madman is silenced. pic.twitter.com/vCAt1vaNHX — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 7, 2021
Michael Moore On the Attempted Insurrection
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America isn’t just broken.
America, the one most of us knew, is dead.
Senate and House Recess as Trump Mob Breaks In to Capitol Building. Romney Accuses Trump of Inciting "Insurrection."
This morning, outside the White House, Donald Trump inflamed his gathered supporters with outright lies and tall tales about how the election was stolen by the Democrats; by weak and…
Divided health and the crisis of capitalism
The 16,000-square-foot Pandemic Response Unit at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington, Ontario. The field hospital was built as a worsening wave of COVID-19 infections pushed the health care system to…
Trump Feeds the Crowd Incendiary Lies
He showed up on the stage about an hour late but when they finally figured out the sound system, Trump unleashed an almost unbearable diatribe to the gathered crowd of…