Artists as Designers of Dying and Funerals
I've been thinking about death and dying a lot lately. Maybe that's because I watched all of the Queen's funeral or maybe it's because I read about the actor Alan…
2022
Monday Morning Links
Assorted material to start your week. – Jeremy Faust laments the removal of the few remaining COVID public health recommendations when we’ve had ample opportunity to learn about the costs…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 26, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Brett Favre continued to pressure for volleyball facility funding even after being told it was possibly illegal, according to new filing – CNN #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN https://cnn.it/3DVuxd5…
barbara ehrenreich, rest in power. i will miss you.
I was very saddened by the news that Barbara Ehrenreich had died earlier this month. She was one of my favourite thinkers and writers, and I found it difficult to…
Why Bother To Vote?
Brittlestar has the answer. Recommend this Post
Save the Grocery Store, Save the Town
When markets fail people, then the people need to replace the market. Ir, to put it more directly: when a profitable grocery store isn’t profitable enough for a company then…
He’s In Trouble
Vladimir Putin is in trouble. His army is experiencing reversals. And he’s calling up kids to replace his dwindling forces. Michael Harris writes: In making these announcements, Putin has planted…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of September 26, 2022
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of September 26, 2022
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 26, 2022 from Wise Law on Twitter: Iran faces US in international court over asset seizure This Ontario couple…
Battles of Brampton’s Brown.
There is not much excitement forecast for the upcoming municipal elections in Ontario on October 24. The exception is likely to be the mayoralty in Brampton. The current mayor, Patrick…
Behold, a pale horse
“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. ” Revelations 6:7-8 I’m thinking tonight of the…
Jason Kenney’s long goodbye draws to a close – let the revision of history begin!
Now that he’s on the way out the door to a doubtless rewarding but ultimately unsatisfying career as a bit-player on multiple corporate boards, Jason Kenney is rewriting history. Brian…
Going all Howard Beale on Canadian media
Peter Finch as anchorman Howard Beale in Network (1976). Image courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The disquiet among Canadians is palpable. Disdain for their news media is unmistakable. It is the end…
If you thought Covid was "over", think again
Seen in a tweet! What I cannot understand is why so many people think Covid is “over”, though thousands are still getting it and dying from it around the world.…
All That’s Fit To Print
From various reports, it is obvious there are some amongst us who embrace lazy thinking. Its ‘practitioners’ eschew traditional media sources, blithely labelling them as “fake news”, preferring to allow…
Saturday Photo: Stars of the End of Summer
This is the time for asters, whose name reflect how heavenly they are!
The Science Fiction of Robert Frost
Robert Frost was a great American poet, and I’ve enjoyed many of his poems over the decades I’ve been reading poetry. Some are a tad bucolic for my taste, but…
Don’t Believe Him
Robert Rotenberg — who shared an office with the late Eddie Greenspan — has some advice for Donald Trump’s lawyers — don’t believe him: He writes: I’ve been a criminal…