Historical Influences in Gaming: Emperor of the Fading Suns
I've been meaning to do an articleon games that have a tendency tolead people to monarchism (whichwill end up being a list of ParadoxStudio games) but in the meantimeI wanted…
August 2025
American Succession
Should Trump die in office, it is not entirely clear that the 25th amendment will be followed when the rest of the constitution is already being ignored. There is, after…
Sunday Funday: Lots of TrumpWatch, plus Newsom’s Canada plane, other funny stuff and Animal Crackers
Time for my Sunday column and I've been looking forward to sharing all the TrumpWatch posts this week. "TrumpWatch" is what I call posts about the world's most anticipated event,…
Oh Canada, where art thou?
The flag of the International Criminal Court at The Hague. Photo by Tony Webster/Wikimedia Commons. A long time ago “It was an extraordinary moment,” remembered Stephen Lewis, Canada’s ambassad...
Sometimes “the people” are wrong
Donald J. Trump represents the worst of his country—the archetype of the ugly American. I... The post Sometimes “the people” are wrong first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Africa’s New Revolutions
The Alliance of Sahel States (French: Alliance des États du Sahel), or AES is a confederation formed between Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, located in the Sahel region of Africa.…
Doug Ford’s hot air is not good governance! We just don’t have any good alternatives…
Is there any major policy area Doug Ford's PC government in Ontario is actually managing well? The health care sector? Nope. It's a disaster getting worse every year, hallway medicine…
Doug Ford’s hot air is not good governance! We just don’t have any good alternatives…
Is there any major policy area Doug Ford's PC government in Ontario is actually managing well? The health care sector? Nope. It's a disaster getting worse every year, hallway medicine…
Mohamad Fakih doesn’t belong in the Order of Canada
No one would really care about Mohamad Fakih, if it were not for that little enamel pin on his lapel, and the letters – “C.M.” – he always seems to…
Sketchies
A collection of loose ideas from #ldnont during the slow dog-days of August. We don’t find any humour in guns and bullets.
Notes from the American Resistance: Hanging on by their fingernails
I realized today how prescient our Canadian leaders have been. Months ago, both Trudeau and Carney told us that Trump has turned the United States into an unworthy and untrustworthy…
Danielle Smith and her ministers burrow deeper into their self-dug book-ban and bargaining holes
Premier Danielle Smith and her education and finance ministers spent much of the day yesterday digging themselves deeper into the holes they started with their it’s-not-a-book-ban ban on books and…
Musical interlude
TWO LANES - No Feeling Is Final
Knee Surgery, 9
Well, I have a whole new set of exercises, most of which come with a pain factor increase, but nothing that seems to make any great leap forward in either…
WAKE UP
Those are the opening words to Spike Lee’s Fight The Power, one of the most important movies ever made. It’s about racist hate and violence, and how quickly it can…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Daniel Ziblatt writes about the dismal history of past efforts to collaborate and negotiate with authoritarians. And Stuart Benson discusses how Mark Carney's lack…
Richard Lloyd plus some geriatric punks!
Come by! I’ll buy you a drink!
Today’s News: The tariff wars are getting real and its going to be a shitstorm
As a non-economist, I have found the constant on-again off-again tariff battles of the last seven months to be very confusing. But it seems like Trump's so-called tariff strategy has…