Another Trump Weekend Ruined
I suppose Hurricane Florence will keep Donald Trump White House-bound this weekend. No time to be seen hitting the links at Bedminster while Red State voters are heading for high…
The Mound of Sound
Manafort Has His Deal. It’s Big.
Paul Manafort has agreed to grass on Donald J. Trump. He will spill the beans. And he did not sell himself cheaply. With eight felony convictions on the most minor…
Signs of the Times
C’mon, you know he’s right. Don’t ya just wish? How Canadian angels will pass the time come October 17th.
Don’t Let America Drag Us Into Its Cesspool In the Name of Competitiveness
A disturbing report from Price Waterhouse Coopers prepared on behalf of the Business Council of Canada (the usual suspects) warns that the Trump tax cuts could put 635-thousand Canadian jobs…
A Eulogy for Rachel Notley
The Tyee’s Mitchell Anderson has penned a farewell to “The Sad, Timid Failure of Rachel Notley,” the soon to be ousted premier of Alberta. Notley, writes Anderson, came to power…
Here Come da Judge
This is Bob Meadows, a circuit court judge from Florida. That won’t matter much to you but listen to what he wrote: Here is one American’s take on the growing…
Trump’s 30 Years of Red-Square Bashing
It seems that Donald Trump has been studying the Kremlin drill manual for about thirty years. Now, just in time for the mid-term elections, two exposes of Trump’s lengthy ties…
North Carolina – the First Little Piggy. Now the Big, Bad Wolf Is At The Door.
Oh, well. It’s not like they couldn’t have seen it coming – if only they had bothered to open their eyes. North Carolina is about to receive what southerners like…
The Obscene President
That would be Trump, of course. Now with Hurricane Florence barreling down on the Carolinas, Trump is patting himself on the back for his own government’s lethal neglect across Puerto…
It’s Not the Science. It’s the Sheer Enormity of It We Can’t Handle.
Most of us get the idea that greenhouse gas emissions, the man-made stuff resulting from human activity, is the major driving force behind recent global warming. We accept that reality…
Hey, Trump. Here, Hold My Beer. Now, Watch This.
Doug Ford, in a breathtaking abuse of power, plans to use the notwithstanding clause to circumvent a judicial ruling thwarting his plan to slash the size of Toronto city council.…
In the Age of Bibi
“The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive. The strong are respected, and alliances are made with the strong,…
Vollman’s Brutal Chronicle
This post concerns a book(s) that neither I nor you will probably ever read. It is William T. Vollman’s two-volume opus, Carbon Ideologies. Carbon Ideologies explores the climate-changed world we…
How Canada Got Screwed on NAFTA or Payback Is a Bitch
There’s a feeling in Canada that the Mexicans threw us under the bus on NAFTA. Apparently the real story isn’t that simple. Yes, there was some back-stabbing that led to…
Living in Interesting Times
World history is not the ground of happiness. The periods of happiness are empty pages in her. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel We are living in interesting times. Interesting, to be…
The BBC Comes Clean on Climate Change
It has been a long time coming. For years the British Broadcasting Corporation has mishandled reporting on climate change. Climate stories routinely included interviews with climate change deniers such as…
Justin, You Could Try Putting the Pin Back in that Grenade.
You know you’re dealing with grifters when a logical, perfectly sound idea won’t even be acknowledged much less discussed. Unfortunately that makes Justin Trudeau, Rachel Notley, Andrew Scheer, Jason Kenney…
A Modest Proposal
The case has been made out literally since the 2019 inauguration that established Donald Trump as the president of the United States. It was immediately obvious that this was not…
A Fine Read for the Ecologically Inclined
It’s not my habit to promote blogs. Every now and then, however, you stumble across one that stands out. Jason Hickel’s blog is in that exclusive category. Hickel is an…