Today’s News: War in Ukraine
78 years of peace in Europe was ended today by Russia and Belarus attacking the Ukraine. #Ukraine is attacked from the north, east, south, air, and ground. This is an…
Cathie from Canada
And in other news: America is furious at the Republican apologists
There used to be a quaint custom, particularly in the United States, that politics stopped at the border’s edge – in other words, foreign policy was considered a national issue,…
Today’s News: It passed
Done! The Emergencies Act passed the Commons and now the Senators get to posture and preen for a bit before they pass it too. The fact that we got through…
Today’s News: Cleaning up
Ottawa, meet Jack. He’s out there on messy but liberated Kent St. cleaning up the occupiers’ garbage. And look at that smile. pic.twitter.com/Jp82rxfrR1 — Kiavash Najafi (@KiavashNajafi) February 20, 2022…
Today’s News: Ending with a whimper
Police services cleared hundreds of aggressive, committed zealots out of a large, dense, de facto fortified, urban area, without firing a shot, and without loss of life. The emergencies act…
Today’s News: Finding Out
Canada was glued to the news channels today, watching as Ottawa police took their city back. Somewhere somebody is already drafting up 3,000-word think pieces about What It All Means…
Today’s News: Waiting for the end
Today Canada started to feel like maybe the end is in sight for the Ottawa Insurrection, or FluTruxKlan, or whatever it will end up being called. Ottawa police plus reinforcements…
Today’s News: The Hollow Men
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. The insurrectionists…
Today’s News: The police might hug them. But the accountants never will
I found twitter to be in a bit of a lull today. Proclaiming the Emergencies Act gave us expectations that the FluTruxKlan will be arrested, broke or out of gas…
Today’s News: fuck around and find out
In October, 1970, the War Measures Act was declared when Pierre Elliot Trudeau proclaimed we were in the midst of an apprehended insurrection in Quebec Today, it happened again, in…
Today’s news: Ottawa Strong
The people of Ottawa started fighting back today – in the cold, standing out on the streets, being yelled at, carrying handmade signs, abandoned by their own police department and…
Today’s news: I wonder what’s gone wrong
I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered I don’t have a friend who feels at ease I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered Or driven to…
Today’s news: I AM CANADIAN
#IAMCANADIAN is trending #1 on Twitter bc the overwhelming majority of Canadians care about their neighbours. We believe in science, democracy, public education & public healthcare. We separate trash from…
I’m back!
Sorry for the long hiatus — I took a temporary job in the fall and it kept me pretty busy but its over now and I’m glad to get back…
Christmas fun
Glenn Miller, with the Modernaires, Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers. Nominated for the Oscar: And more Nicholas Brothers, with Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton and the Modernaires. Another Oscar nominee:…
Festivus, and other great Christmas moments
“Stop crying and fight your father”
Twas the night before a Covid Christmas!
As seen on Facebook: A Covid Christmas Twas the night before Christmas, but Covid was here, So we all had to stay extra cautious this year. Our masks were all…
Today’s news: random funny stuff
COVID has convinced us of this truth: I’m wearing this when I teach evolutionary medicine next week. pic.twitter.com/E2wCQyTs1u — Daniel Bolnick (@DanielBolnick) November 22, 2021 ? True! ??❄️??❄️??❄️?? https://t.co/xgdoYTtc2n —…
Today’s News: peek-a-boo!
The parrot is making fun of him! ??pic.twitter.com/98HUbWrkdP — Figen (@TheFigen) November 19, 2021 They used to laugh and call him names. Not anymore. pic.twitter.com/sYEGmlGKqb — Cory Papineau (@Iam_Canadian) November…
Today’s news: when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging!
John Cleese seems to have morphed into the angry establishment figure of ridicule he played in sketches. — Chris Kehoe (@MrKehoe79) November 13, 2021 John Cleese, Morrissey and JK Rowling…