The Next Wave – After Covid-19 is Gone
We’ve heard plenty about a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, perhaps even a third wave. Some suggest that the nature of how the virus spread globally and how easily…
The Mound of Sound
Has Trump’s "Gestapo" Schtick Been a Desperate Attempt to Shore Up His Donor Base?
If so, it doesn’t seem to be working. The Godfathers of big political money seem to be taking a pass on Donald Trump’s campaign this year. Finally, after months of…
Gutless Bastard. Trump Cancels Covid Convention
He wants American kids back in school in September but Donald Trump doesn’t want to put Republican party faithful in harm’s way in August. Trump pulled the GOP nomination convention…
Portland Dads Now Backing Up Portland Moms
They’re the nemesis of Trump’s “little green men.” Portland’s Wall of Moms, decked out in yellow t-shirts stood between the Trump Thugs and BLM protesters thwarting violence. Finally Team Trump…
Another Iconic Picture
It’s freshly reprieved Roger Stone and fellow racists flashing the white power sign.
Another Pipeline Defection
It was barely two weeks ago that insurance giant, Munich Re, announced that it was no longer willing to provide coverage to the Justin Trudeau Memorial Pipeline, a.k.a. Trans Mountain.…
The Loons and Their Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories
Think of it as a marriage made in dementia – a pandemic and a group of people who have persuaded each other that anything and everything bad is the sinister…
Judge Springs Cohen
Like Peas in a Pod Manafort is out. Stone is out before he ever went in. Trump is fighting claw and fang to see that Michael Flynn never has his…
Honing the Numbers – The Future, Not So Cool But Not So Hot Either.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has revised the range of global heating outcomes at both ends. The best outcome may be worse than we had been told but…
Some Photos are Simply Iconic.
And this is one. In Portland, one of Trump’s goon squad confronts a member of the Wall of Moms. Well, small mercies, at least he didn’t shoot her. These women,…
Perilous Times for Liberal Democracy
Long before the Covid-19 pandemic entered our lives, liberal democracy was reeling across the world. Countries such as Poland, Hungary, Brazil and others succumbed to authoritarianism and transformed into illiberal…
Great a Bi-Polar President
After George W. Bush we thought we had seen the last of the worst US president ever. After Donald Trump came along and was so much worse, George W. didn’t…
The Occupied States of America
My brother was furious with me when he found I had chucked them out. “They” were a cheap, ceramic Nativity set, the bottom of each piece stamped with “Made in…
It’s a Two-Way Street
We need rules, new rules for how humankind is to share this planet with other species. Emphasis on “share.” We need to figure out what share other species require and,…
Is Trump About to Go Extra-Constitutional? Rule by Decree, Bypassing Congress?
Trump’s totalitarian instincts have never lurked very far from the surface. Now there’s word he’s looking for ways to circumvent the House and Senate so that he can rule America…
STFU!
Edmonton Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. That doesn’t mean others have to accept it. Just because they’re expressing an opinion doesn’t mean others have to be meek about…
What Do You Make of This? Fauci or Not-Fauci? Maybe It Doesn’t Really Matter.
Full disclosure. This is an item attributed to Dr. Anthony Fauci that has appeared on social media, notably FaceBook. Did he actually write it or deliver this commentary? I don’t…
Trump Takes Another Page from Putin’s Playbook
Trump sent his own contingent of “little green men” to crack down on protesters in Portland, Oregon. The term was coined when mysterious combat forces, their uniforms stripped of any…
A Lethal Combination – Booze and Covid-19
Every day the courts get plenty of business from people who can’t hold their booze and people who can’t drink responsibly. Fights, traffic accidents, DUIs, petty crimes – everything goes…
Covid Figures Don’t Lie. Covid Liars, However, Do Figure.
Only it’s not 1 percent. The mortality rate among the infected varies country by country with 4-5 per cent at the lower end of the scale. The Intercept explains how…