Here’s a post to look back on, whenever you feel the arc of the moral universe isn’t bending toward justice fast enough. First, the NHL’s despicable decision that hockey players…
These two clips are being set up as “dueling” videos. Last spring, Trudeau was talking to a right-wing teenager in Manitoba. This week, Poilievre was talking to a BC reporter…
I saw some courageous people in this week’s news. First of all, Heather Kuttai. She has been one of my personal heros for the last three decades. Heather has been…
I’m reading lots of thoughtful items about the Israel-Hamas War so I wanted to share them. By the way, one thing I have noticed is that posters on Twitter who…
...The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity… What an awful week…
We are finding out more now about the horror that Israelis experienced as Hamas was hunting and killing them – the stories are incredible, some courageous, others terrifying. The New…
There is absolutely no excuse for the horrific war that Hamas has now started against Israel. Israel will defend itself, the Palestinians in Gaza are likely going to be slaughtered…
I have been feeling pretty gloomy latey about the state of politics, here and in the United States. Then yesterday David Moscrop gave us this piece on substack — Does…
Like everyone, I have been following the uproar with House of Commons speaker Anthony Rota and his ineptitude in hosting and applauding Yaroslav Hunka, who as a WW2 Ukrainian teenager…
Apparently Musk is going to try to start charging for his platform. He simply doesn’t understand Twitter at all – he never did. Its like a pulp and paper company…
As Samwise says, Well, I’m back! Lately I have been trying to figure out why everything in American politics has become such a shit-show — the Trump disaster, abortion rights,…
Sorry, I have to pause on posting for a little while. I’ll be back.
I found both of these posts so shocking. The first one is a reminder about AIDS and how only within the last 20 years has our society learned to respect…
Threads is finally available on a desktop and it has an “embed this post” button! So I am trying it out with this post — I really really hope I…
Like Arthur Clark said way back when on possibility of extraterrestrial life in the universe: “We’re either alone, or we’re not. And either way you look at it, it’s staggering.”…
I’ve read a number of great substack articles and tweet threads recently by Hamilton Nolan, Dale Smith, Evan Scrimshaw, Robert Reich, and Oliver Willis, among others (and Pogo, of course).…
Funny stuff: How to lure me to my death pic.twitter.com/X0sVRGJOWK — Hermeshuns ? (@hermeshuns) August 13, 2023 I saw these on Bluesky: (Read more…)Moving on to US politics, its clear…
I don’t think there is anything more terrifying than a wildfire. If Canadians are now beginning to grasp the magnitude and imminent danger of climate change, then it is this…
Well, the news has been so crazy lately there is only one way to make sense of it — with political cartoons. Here’s some: My @TinyviewComics cartoon published 7/13/23. #ClimateCrisis…
I was going to do a post about Poilievre and his stumbles tonight, but then I saw posts about rescues of animals in Hawaii — and they are so much…
