How could Trump win? Just ask the guys
In a famous Saturday Night Live sketch from 1988, George Bush (played by Dana Carvey) faced Michael Dukakis (Jon Lovitz) in a debate. When Carvey (who is now killing it…
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Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Mark Harris examines the competing pressures which will determine how a climate breakdown in progress affects our food supply, while Fiona Harvey discusses how…
Legal News Post of the Day: November 4, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Parents react to Alberta moving toward opt-in sex ed, mandatory pronoun notification #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://t.co/hAtfyR8CZr - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Brett Christophers on our growing ‘asset-manager society’
Brookfield Place, Toronto. Photo by Matt Wiebe/Flickr. First published in early 2023, Verso Books just released a new paperback version of Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asse...
Wise Law’s Top 10 #LegalNewsPosts for the Week of November 4, 2024
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of November 4, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 4, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter:Judge details loophole that makes it hard to get convictions for distracted driving…
Planning the obsolescence of Canada Post
Canada Post mailbox in Markham, Ontario. Photo by Raysonho/Wikimedia Commons. If you’ve heard anything about Canada Post recently, it’s probably that it’s losing money. A lot of money. And there...
Keep Kamala and Carry On-a-la
The closing moments:The Next President of the United States #SNL #NailedIt pic.twitter.com/tMl8iFdD5o— Abraxsys (@Abraxsys) November 3, 2024 Kamala’s SNL hit was a Slamala Dunkala!— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) November 3, 2024…
FINDING OUR WAY IN UNCHARTED TIMES
FINDING OUR WAY IN UNCHARTED TIMESA sextant was an indispensable navigation tool in the early days of European ocean-going discovery. Unlike Heisenberg's Theory of Uncertainty, a sextant could tell you…
What the US presidential candidates are saying—and aren’t
Election signs in Lancaster, Ohio. Photo by Dan Keck/Flickr. National opinion polls show that with just one week to go in the US presidential election, Trump and Harris are virtually…
The Day Donald Trump Told My Husband A Secret
The US election is like a train wreck, it’s impossible to tear your eyes away. But we made a conscious effort not to get sucked into the maelstrom. There’s nothing…
Saturday Photo: First Morning of Standard Time
It was "Fall back" time today, so we woke up extra early and made it to the Technoparc before the sun was up. Frost on everything, birds still asleep, but…
u.s. voting, "trump is a symptom," genocide, and reality: further thoughts
image: self-righteousness and left activismYesterday I wrote about, among other things, why Americans should vote Democrat despite their very obvious shortcomings, blindspots, corrupt partisanship, militarism, support for the Israeli apartheid…
Springing The Trap
In his ongoing efforts to evade responsibility for the plight of the homeless and their consequent encampments, Doug Ford set a trap. And like hungry mice eager for an ort…
Imagine There’s No Heaven…
The title above is how Imagine, the iconic 1971 song by John Lennon, begins. It is still being played and sung, more than 50 years later. Wikipedia tells us it…