Jurassic Park: Some Thoughts About the Franchise Part 1
There’s one particular scene in the first Jurassic Park movie, about twenty minutes in, when Dr. Alan Grant and Dr. Ellie Sattler see the dinosaurs walking wild in the open…
October 2024
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Lauren Rosenthal, Brian Sullivan and Christopher Cannon examine how the prospect of extreme weather and associated disasters is a reality everywhere in the U.S.…
One year of genocide in Gaza
A Palestinian mother holds her son while passing a residential building that was destroyed overnight by an Israeli air strike at Sheikh Radwan in Gaza City. Photo by Eman Mohammed.…
Legal News Post of the Day: October 7, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: B.C. man sues RBC after earning then losing $415M on Tesla stocks via @CBCNews https://t.co/szRCcr4RZd - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
Wise Law’s Top 10 #LegalNewsPosts for the Week of October 7, 2024
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of October 7, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of October 7, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter:Eric Adams’s Lawyers Ask Judge to Dismiss Bribery ChargeHalton police bust 51 unplated…
what i’m reading: the wolf, outstanding nonfiction by nate blakeslee
current/international editionThe Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee is a masterpiece. It is truly one of the best works of narrative nonfiction…
How Sweet It Is
People of a certain age will remember Jackie Gleason and one of his famous taglines: "How sweet it is." Delivered with an insouciance only Gleason was capable of, it was…
The state of our moral disengagement
Palestinians stand amid the ruins of the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Photo by Mohammed Hajjar/AP. A US-made precision-guided bomb manufactured by Boeing shreds a little girl and renders her body…
Reviewing Reboot Alberta
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Reviewing Reboot Alberta
Control Alternatives and Deletes Check out our website www.rebootalberta.com and Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/kenchapman46/
Today’s News: Truanons and Nuremberg 2.0 and understanding the damn question
So on Saturday this happened:Angus Reid reposts a doctored video that misquotes the PM as if it's reality and we're supposed to accept his company's poll results are believable? I…
Danielle Smith’s promised ‘new day for health care in Alberta’ is here – and, yikes, is it ever awful!
When she opened her news conference on Nov. 8 last year, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith began: “Welcome to a new day for health care in Alberta!” Did she get that…
On Burnout: "Can" is the New "Should"
I started reading about burnout when I walked away from teaching earlier than expected. Suddenly, I couldn't bring myself to open that door after over thirty years of bounding to…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Geoffrey Deihl warns that this year's U.S. election may represent a point of no return in trying to avoid civilization-shaking climate breakdown (even…
The Good Life: we have the vision – what’s lacking is the will
When the 2007-2008 financial crisis hit, a loud chorus of pundits and politicians, for what turned out to be the briefest moment, came to see that we had got it…
Dogo Fogo – Ontario’s own monstrous lake attraction.
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News pollution is more dangerous than news poverty in this small BC town
Squamish, British Columbia, as seen from a lookout point located in Stawamus Chief Provincial Park. Photo by Benoit Brummer/Wikimedia Commons. Write what you know best, aspiring writers are ofte...
Long Reads: The rise of stupidity; The analytic failures of the Russia-Ukraine War; and how presidential polls are always wrong
Last night I posted some long threads; tonight, I have several interesting "long reads" on topics I have frequently discussed on this blog: The Stupid, It Burns! Substack writer Black…