5% – How Do You Like Them Odds?
Five percent. One in 20. Two new studies suggest that we’ve left climate change unanswered for so long that we have the slimmest of odds of avoiding dangerous levels of…
The Mound of Sound
Scaramucci Sets Record. 11 Days and Out.
John Oliver, you lucky bastard. You take a month off and then come back to deliver the following take on Tony Scaramucci. Talk about comedic timing. Tony “the Mooch” has…
About Assange. More Than Meets the Eye?
Julian Assange has fierce defenders on the Left. The WikiLeaks founder also has his fiercest critics on the Left. The first group insists Assange is on the up and up,…
Bibi’s Submarine Scandal. Will It Sink Him?
Will Israel’s deal to buy German submarines torpedo Benjamin Netanyahu? The Times of Israel reports that investigators have discovered how 20%, nine billion dollars out of an overall 45 billion…
America’s "Post-Primacy" Era
Washington had no end of opportunities since the days of Reagan/Bush Sr. and Gorbachev/Yeltsin, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of American unipolar primacy. They took much…
The Party’s Over
Even the US military is finally facing facts. The party’s over. American dominance, that anyone under 70 has spent their entire life taking for granted, is over. It’s not coming…
A Threat to Us All
The Observer takes down Donald J. Trump. Like some kind of Shakespearean villain-clown, Trump plays not to the gallery but to the pit. He is a Falstaff without the humour…
Blame Trump, Really?
A poll finds that more than half of South Koreans think their country should have its own nuclear arsenal. North Korea’s recent launch of a long-range ballistic missile seems to…
Second Thoughts on Saudi Death Wagons?
Just what in hell did the Liberal government think Saudi Arabia was going to do when the upheld a multi-billion dollar sale of lethal weaponry to the radical Sunni state?…
Nothing Ever Happens on Friday
See what can happen when you spend a few hours picking plums? Consigliere Reince Priebus fired by Donaldo “The Bloat” Trumpini. His capo, Tony “Tourettes” Scarmucci gets the pink slip…
Ding Dong, Christy’s Gone.
Sounds like she’s getting while the getting’s good. British Columbia’s ex-premier, Christy Clark, has resigned as leader of the BC Liberal Party. Farewell, Christy, and remember that “door/ass” thing on…
Our "Post-America World"
Fareed Zakaria writes that the world is “over” America. The world has moved on. In London last week, I met a Nigerian man who succinctly expressed the reaction of much…
It May be 2017 But It’s 1965 in Trump’s Cave
US attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has garnered considerable sympathy for the sadistic attacks he’s endured from Donald Trump lately but the little bastard really is a despicable low-life and not…
Trump’s Mini-Me
It’s hard not to see Trump’s new communications director, Tony Scaramucchi, as anything but the Cheeto Benito’s “Mini-me.” “White House officials and outside allies say the President is revelling in…
"Privileged White Boy Beats Up Indian."
When I read that line beneath the photo of a bare chested Justin Trudeau standing beside a bare chested Patrick Brazeau, I thought, “oh no, not now.” That was years…
Three Days on the Job and Scary Moochie Runs Amok.
Maybe Donald Trump is so depraved that he likes the deranged antics of his new-hire communications director, Tony Scaramucchi. Enraged that a New Yorker reporter, Ryan Lizza, had tweeted that…
The Boy Scouts of America Apologizes for a President Who Knows No Decency
America’s pervy president was in fine form when he appeared at the annual Boy Scouts jamboree to deliver high praise for – for America’s pervy president. So far beyond the…
M’aidez, m’aidez
A plea for help from the Council of Canadians. Reproduced here in its entirety: Did you know that most lakes and rivers in Canada are no longer protected from harmful…
Donald Trump Is A.. (Your Word Here)
My word for this depraved, degenerate is “asshole.” Donald Trump is an asshole, maybe the biggest asshole of the 21st century. The Republican Party, that supports and empowers Trump, is…