Saturday stuff: mostly animals being amazing!
Here’s a few clips of funny stuff, and some animals that impress me greatly! Basel Zoo. Switzerland: You gotta be kidding me… pic.twitter.com/77tFEEsyzX — Rex Chapman?? (@RexChapman) April 19, 2022…
April 2022
we can stand with ukraine but i cannot stand the hypocrisy
Every day brings new images of war crimes and atrocities, destruction and suffering in Ukraine. Every day brings new declarations of love and solidarity for the Ukrainian people. And every…
Highway 62 revisited
New one. Ain’t completely done yet, I don’t think. But those who know highway 62 may spot something familiar. pic.twitter.com/aY7EwmfP67 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 23, 2022
Rock On, Richard Hughes
Richard Hub Hughes- Rest in Power old Buddy On Friday afternoon, Richard chose to leave this life the way he lived it; decisively and on his own terms. For the…
The West? Really?
Many Canadians think of “the West” as one monolithic block. This concept seemed to firm up in many minds back when Preston Manning and his Reform Party stormed Ottawa proclaiming…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Renee Graham writes that the elimination of masking protections as a matter of privileged people’s comfort in the midst of a pandemic that…
Saturday Photo: More Spring Flowers
Had snow this week, but the flowers nevertheless persist. Good to see.
How to Make Credit Card Purchases Safer – Banks, Are You Paying Attention
Do you worry about the security of your credit card information when you provide it to lesser known merchants to make payments ? Do you worry that the information you…
Debunking Poilievre’s Tweets, Part 2
This is a continuation of my debunking of a small sample of Pierre Poilievre’s (aka Skippy’s) 2022 tweets. His tweets are presented in italics; my responses follow in roman text.…
The Upcoming Election
There are a little more than five weeks to go until Ontario’s election. And, if you believe the polls, Doug Ford might just win it. Bob Hepburn writes: Ford’s laughing…
Conservative Values.
When writing recently about how conservative leadership candidates were overusing the word ‘freedom’ it occurred to me that they also think they own the term ‘values.’ At their first English…
Today’s News: We will win this war or we will get another
Here is Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the Ukrainian band BoomBox singing in Kyiv. And here are other beautiful versions too: Around 300 Lithuanians came together to sing with Ukrainian refugee Eliza…
The Grotesque Hypocrisy of Pierre Poilievre
Pierre Poilievre has always been a grotesque Con man, who lies like a thief, and thinks he can get away with anything. He claims he stands for FREEDOM or FREEDUMB.…
Musical interlude
Dash Berlin – Oceans
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Nadine Yousif writes about the growing frustration people are experiencing as they’re told to manage their own risks in the midst of a…
Here’s an Idea Whose Time Has Come
A bill has been introduced in the California legislature to mandate a 32 hour or 4 day work week for larger companies. Fewer hours, same pay. The bill, AB 2932,…
Happy Earth Day?
Why does that sound like “happy colonoscopy”?
The Lost Age of Literacy
The following insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words: 1. “He had delusions of adequacy ” Walter Kerr 2. “He has all…
End of the Line?
The habitable Earth is becoming increasingly smaller. In some places it’s too dry. The phenomenon of decadal drought from mellennia past has returned. The pattern of reliably predictable and gentle…