Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Jacob Stern asks whether the new normal is to blithely accept large numbers of avoidable COVID deaths – and sadly the answer to…
2022
Teachable Moments: Should Schools Teach About Covid?
I’ve been talking with parents who are trying desperately to keep their kids safe in the classroom. It sounds like most staff and students are unmasked despite higher Covid numbers…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 19, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: This Ontario couple bought a house without a home inspection — and it was a disaster #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3f54vJG – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our…
Saturday Photo: Queen Anne’s Lace for a Time When the Monarchy Is in View
Seventy years is a long a time to stay at the same job, but that’s what Elizabeth II did. There is so much about her reign and her successor in…
When Mass Psychosis Takes Hold
It is ugly, and it is real. H/t Aaron Rupar Especially chilling are the hand gestures of the faithful I do hope PP doesn’t see this. Recommend this Post
the north island report: whale watching, little huson caves park, zeballos
While we had family visiting, we did a little more exploring of the North Island. We went to Telegraph Cove, a historic village and tiny tourist resort just south of…
I Am #Woke
I AM #WOKE. The post I Am #Woke first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of September 19, 2022
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Far From Rosy
Pierre Poilievre has taken over the Conservative Party and Michael Harris is not impressed: It has been a rocky debut. It seems the boys over at headquarters stuck their hand…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of September 19, 2022
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 19, 2022 from Wise Law on Twitter: Toronto cops seen cycling through stop signs prompts open letter from lawyer…
Yes, city councils can cut the police budget
A Winnipeg police cruiser sits parked near a church on Cumberland Street. Photo by Dave Shaver/Flickr. Winnipeg is in the midst of another uninspiring municipal election. But unlike previous rounds,…
Yes, We Can.
By now we should all be tired of the naysayers who say Canada’s constitution is impossible to change. The facts are that nothing is impossible. The ultimate authority on how…
Today’s News: Ratioed
To begin, I need to give a definition of “ratioed” – Merriam-Webster defines it as “A quantitative measure of how little they like your take.” A tweet is “ratioed” when…
Pierre Poilievre and the Politics of Brutalization
“The word ‘brutalize’ is now employed quite wrongly to mean harsh or cruel treatment meted out by the strong to the weak…but in fact it means something subtler, namely the…
Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg on the death of Mikhail Gorbachev
An untitled mural by Georg Lutz, painted in 1990, depicts former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev driving though a crack in the Berlin wall. Photo by Ilias Katsouras/Flickr. Noam Chomsky and…
Shift from fossils to renewables will save $12 trillion by 2050
Middelgrunden offshore wind farm (40 MW) observed in Øresund. Photo by CGP Grey/Wikimedia Commons. fossil fuels with renewable energy will save countries at least US$12 trillion by 2050, an Oxford…
From the Bookmarks
What a week! Here are some palate cleansers I have been collecting: The game will miss these two ❤️@serenawilliams | @rogerfederer pic.twitter.com/G630i4BlSL — ESPN (@espn) September 15, 2022 That is…
The power of peasant farmers
A large farm growing a variety of foods in Vietnam. Photo by Dennis Jarvis/Wikimedia Commons. Tiny Engines of Abundance: A History of Peasant Productivity and Repression Jim Handy Fernwood, 2022…
Eating up the Hill: The evolution of the caf’s General Tso Chicken
You’re not going to get high-quality Chinese food from a Parliament Hill Cafeteria — you’d do better at a nearby mall food court or, better yet, walk down to Sommerset…