Status quo bias and climate destruction
Tenacious adherence to old methods of energy creation ensures substantial economic and environmental damage and a path to human extinction.
2022
Saskatchewan NDP Leadership 2022 Reference Page
A one-stop source for general information about the 2022 Saskatchewan NDP leadership campaign. General InformationSaskatchewan NDP Constitution Saskatchewan NDP Membership Candidate Information Candidate Website Twitter Facebook Profile Carla Beck CarlaForLeader.ca…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – William Haseltine writes about the long-lasting and severe cognitive effects of long COVID, while Danny Altmann discusses the urgency of developing effective treatment…
“Hope and Enlightenment in Dark Times”
https://modernpoetryintranslation.com/alla-gutnikovas-speech-from-court-friday-8-april-2022/ Alla Gutnikova’s speech from the Russian court as she is to be sentenced for standing for peace, for our shared humanity, for hope, for art, for our emancipation.
THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW – AT HOME
For 23 years, we ran a “home ICU” for our son Nicholas. Nick was born with severe cerebral palsy and he is very medically complex. Moving from crisis to crisis…
Troubling Thinking.
You should never ignore a political party’s pamphlets. They tell you so much about how they think—or, in some cases, do not think. In this phony war before the real…
Today’s News: Catching up
DeAdder does such great cartoons, doesn’t he. And yes, I also believe that the only reason Elon Musk is interested in Twitter is because Trump desperately wants to tweet again.…
Guns & Money: LAGOs get a right-wing virtue-signal; car insurers get $385 million more in premiums
The Criminal Code may come under federal jurisdiction, but the Kenney Government wants the substantial number of “law-abiding gun owners” in its base to know every now and then that…
The authoritarian Americans
Why are Americans so much more authoritarian than Canadians? According to a survey by American business intelligence company Morning Consult, the U.S. has twice as many right-wing authoritarians as Canada…
Musical interlude
Fink – Looking Too Closely
On negative reinforcement
While there have been some aspects of the Saskatchewan NDP’s post-election review (PDF) which involved conflicting currents within the party, one of the few possibilities which seems to have been…
Europe: the return to the periphery of the world
“The Congress of Vienna,” watercolour etching by August Friedrich Andreas Campe (1777-1846), in the collection of the State Borodino War and History Museum, Moscow. One hundred years after the First…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Friday reading. – Gavin Yamey et al. observe that a push for vaccine equity – and the retention of public health measures until it can be…
The meaning of Hillsborough
Liverpool fans hold up banners commemorating those who lost their lives in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. Photo by Andrew Cowie/AFP. The following article originally appeared in the January/February 2013 edition…
Guys’ rules for girls
I have been working to bring order to the electronic congestion and confusion on my computer. That is a slow process since I keep finding old material to read. One…
Finding Freedom.
If anything could have annoyed us more, it was those damn demonstrators in Ottawa and at border crossings, waving the Canadian flag. These people were not respecting the flag nor…
Today’s News: Spring is here
(Image from Daily Kos) A few weeks ago, in response to someone’s tweet about Russia vehicle movements in Ukraine, I replied “Spring is coming”. It seemed to confuse people –…
Advanced Education Minister pushes back at Athabasca University president’s plans – how will they square this circle?
Happy Easter! Alberta Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). On Monday we asked if Athabasca University’s administration had gone rogue and was defying the Kenney Government with plans…
A Charlatan and a Threat to Democracy
A US District Court judge has slammed former president Donald Trump as a “charlatan” and a menace to American democracy. A federal judge on Thursday called Donald Trump a threat…
Sure We’ve Got a Housing Crisis. Now Do Something About It.
There’s an affordable housing problem in Canada. It’s a problem that has confronted other countries also and they have shown us how to fix it. Hint: the answer isn’t building…