A Soul Soother For These Troubled Times
Baroque music AND a livestream of Venice. I return to this several times a day. Recommend this Post
Lorne
A Fairy Tale
Frank Sinatra sang that fairy tales can come true. One hopes he was right. H/t Marie Snyder Recommend this Post
A Tale Of Two Countries
Each night I allow myself a half-hour dose of news from an American perspective, usually NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. And every night I emerge from the experience immensely…
A Graphic Illustration Of Why Peter MacKay Is Unfit To Hold Public Office
As a Nova Scotian, I am outraged that Justin Trudeau is using our tragedy to punish law-abiding firearms owners across Canada. As Prime Minister, I can guarantee to all Canadians…
A Glitch In The Machine
Watch the following, and you will understand. The Government™ has made an ad about the global response to the pandemic, and it's surprisingly honest and informative ?? ? We're on…
Zen And The Art Of Gorilla-Watching
Try it sometime. You might like it. Recommend this Post
No Comfort From Chris Hedges
Reading Chris Hedges is never a fell-good experience. His unflinching assessments, his unsparingly bleak prognostications, offer no comfort. During the very trying times we are currently living through, why subject…
"I’d Die For A Haircut"
Live in one of several jurisdictions in the Benighted States of America, you could very well get your wish: Recommend this Post
But A Brief Reprieve
If our thoughts have been able, even briefly, to break out of their ongoing obsession with Covid-19 and death, we will have realized a couple of things: One, that we…
The Relentless, Indefatigable Chip Franklin
Most days I stop myself from reposting Chip Franklin’s hilarious screeds. Today is not one of those days. If you're a Trumper, and you think I'm a liberal doling out…
Another Sad, Mad Episode
Listening to Donald Trump prattle on is like bearing witness to the stream-of-consciousness ravings of a backward, depraved child: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out…
The Hits Keep Coming.
This certainly beats having to write something for my blog. Thanks to my friend Dom for sending me the following: Recommend this Post
With A Little Help From The Feds
Sorry (not really); I just can’t help myself: Recommend this Post
Streaming 24 Hours A Day
The United States may be an empire in deep and irreversible decline, but it continues to excel in one area: comedy of the absurd. Its citizenry’s irrational antics amply serve…
To All Trump Enthusiasts Everywhere
I’m sure your master endorses this message. Meanwhile, Heather Mallick has an interesting explanation for the servile attitude so many Americans have toward their clown president. Why do Americans, alleged…
Build That Wall!
It is our only hope of keeping out citizens of the Benighted States of America such as these: Recommend this Post
Essential Activities, Essential Idiocy
God love the Americans. No one else will. Recommend this Post
This Is Absolutely Ghoulish
First it was Dr. Oz betraying his Hippocratic Oath. Now Dr. Phil has joined the movement as he and the ever-compassionate Laura Ingraham discuss why the lockdown should end. Start…
The Weakest Link
There has been much criticism worldwide over national governments’ failures to act quickly enough to contain the spread of Covid-19; one needs only look at the frightening death tolls in…
Pandemic: The Lessons On Offer
To say that our current Covid-19 global crisis is causing us to rethink many things is to state the obvious. Far and wide, people are coming to new understanding about…