Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Eric Topol writes about the new wave of COVID-19 decimating Europe – and the level of denial required to pretend that the U.S.…
2021
It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity
There’s something out of the ordinary about a monsoon. It’s the deluge that seems to go on and on. Enviro-Can reports that the east side of this island has recorded…
How to Avoid Billionaire Trolls
Figure 1 from Cook, Ellerton, and Kinkead 2018. CC BY 3.0 The biggest trolls in the world are also the richest. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp fame and Elon Musk of…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of November 15, 2021
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Corrected post on chord wheel construction
Revised Chord Wheel – Scripturient (ianchadwick.com) Fixed the broken links, added in the missing images, added a link to the chord-builder wheel as well. Apparently, when moving the old ukulele…
Sooner Or Later
Sooner or later, Michael Harris writes, Erin O’Toole is going to be confronted with his own failure: Sooner or later, Erin O’Toole is going to have to admit that his…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of November 15, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 15, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: The House select committee issued six subpoenas to top Trump campaign associates,…
No Amigos Here!
You heard that prime minister Justin Trudeau will be in Washington this week? He is having a visit with American President Joe Biden along with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López…
Rest in Peace, ‘Grassroots Guarantee’ – Jason Kenney’s famous promise is gone with the wind
You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but, as Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have observed, you…
wow!
I’ve been away (in Montreal) for several days. On returning I’ve learned that one of my students from many years ago is now one of our readers. John Watt was…
The Department of Education: The Nazis were good people too (or some such BS)
This week we learned that in 2020 the Dept of Education published a document recommending that teachers discussing Nazi atrocities also include material showing the Nazi’s policies strengthened Germany’s economy.…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – John Vidal discusses how the results of the Glasgow climate summit represents a failure by our leaders to act seriously in the…
This weeks Sparky: they do their own research
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Canada’s nuclear legacy
Entrance to the uranium mine at Port Radium in the Northwest Territories in 1947. The ore mined at Port Radium ended up in the United States for use in the…
what i’m reading: poisoner in chief: sidney gottlieb and the cia search for mind control — plus a few thoughts on conspiracy theories
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction. It is impeccably researched — nearly every page yields another revelation —…
How Are You Supposed to Tell Them Apart?
What does it mean when one “weather alert” blurs into the next? Environment Canada today issued a heavy rain alert for the coast. Some spots could get up to 200…
Get Ready for Tough Talk and Civil Disobedience
George Monbiot writes that, after the failure of COP 26, we’re in a fight for our lives. Now it’s a straight fight for survival. The Glasgow Climate Pact, for all…
Gift suggestions for the person who literally has everything
We all like to find unique, distinctive, one-of-a-kind gifts for Christmas that show how much we care for the giftee. But most of us just end up buying any piece…
KINSELLACAST 185: Mraz, Mills, Belanger and me on political losers – plus SFH EDM!
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Burning The Books
American schools are being confronted by a new generation of book burners. Michelle Goldberg writes: Virginia’s Spotsylvania County School Board this week voted unanimously to have books with “sexually explicit”…