Trump Picks A Fellow Traveller: Matt Whitaker
The NYT reports the following: Matthew G. Whitaker, the acting attorney general, served on the advisory board of a Florida company that a federal judge shut down last year and…
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Protecting Those In Power
It is to state the obvious that there are many actions going on in the background to which we are not privy. Only occasionally do we see the man behind…
Now Things Are Getting Really Ridiculous
A sad menagerie for all to behold. Recommend this Post
Is Left-Wing Populism The Answer?
While I personally don’t see anything on the horizon to resurrect the fortunes of the federal NDP, Avi Lewis thinks he has a winning strategy: embrace populism, something he thinks…
Worse Than We Thought
Yesterday, friend Mound posted a disturbing piece on the fact that the oceans have absorbed 60% more heat than expected. The implications for global warming are significant, and suggest, among…
On Personal Hypocrisy
“The price of admission to the climate-change battle is hypocrisy.” I interpret those words, as best as I remember them from a book on climate change I recently read, as…
A Brief Programming Note
I’ll be taking a break from the blog for the next little while. See you soon. Recommend this Post
On Short Attention Spans And Political Expediency
The climate catastrophe bearing down on us serves to underscore the fallibility of our species and the shortcomings of our politics, as these Star letter-writers ably point out: The news…
Politics And Climate Change
Sad to say, climate change and politics in the worst possible sense are inextricably linked. Even as we face the defining crisis of human existence, the question remains one of…
It’s Almost Too Late
Without doubt, the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a sobering call for urgent action to prevent complete climate catastrophe. The 12-year window provided by the…
No Words Seem Adequate
I haven’t been posting much lately; words seem inadequate in light of world events, and their power appears to fork little lightning no matter how dire things are., With the…
Sad But True
H/t Michael de Adder Recommend this Post
A Public Service Announcement – Facebook Hoax Alert
If, like me, you are on Facebook, I would like to alert you to a hoax currently circulating, one that I received in my Messenger this morning. The best thing…
The Rabid Right Revealed
This demonstrates a great deal about the extreme right, doesn’t it? Tweet this back to @IngrahamAngle is she ever pretends she cares about what happens to other people. pic.twitter.com/lY3ilkk5vW —…
Not That Facts Matter Anymore
I wonder what would he say if someone sexually assaulted his Ivanka??pic.twitter.com/jBs13S7q4F https://t.co/Cvg4Hs4ZKd — Maggie Resists Trump (@Stop_Trump20) October 4, 2018 Recommend this Post
Putting Populism In Perspective
Martin Amis offers his acerbic assessment of the current populist mania: Recommend this Post
Genuflecting At The Digital Altar (Or, Is Nothing Sacred?)
They say that age is but a number, and there are many days I believe that. Often, I awake feeling relatively youthful, and the daily walks I undertake are conducted…
An Unreliable Narrator
In fiction there exists what is known as the unreliable narrator, which can be defined in this way: It is a character who tells the reader a story that cannot…
Conveniently Ignoring History
While I am sure there are some interests within Canada who will applaud Justin Trudeau’s latest effort at placating Donald Trump, I am not one of them. As history well…
Pleasing Words Mean Nothing
Unless they are in the thrall of rabid partisanship, nice hair, sunny smiles or pleasing but empty rhetoric, most people, I suspect, would agree that the Trudeau government has been…