Kelly, Meet Kelli. Oh, You’ve Already Met?
They’re both ambitious women. They’re both radical conservatives. Hey, they’re both doctors and they’ll say anything and walk all over anyone to get what they want. Ours is the ever…
The Mound of Sound
What Would the Ancient Greeks Have Made of Donald Trump?
Good question and one best left to experts like Stanford prof, Josiah Ober, author and professor of political science and the classics. In Dr. Ober’s view, the Greeks would not…
This Could Send Trump Racing For the "Pardon Button" Or Maybe the Launch Codes
Can Robert Mueller indict Donald Trump? Ken Starr, the special counsel who tried to take down Bill Clinton, seems to think so. The New York Times using Freedom of Information…
Is Climate Change Even "News" Any More?
For the better part of 15 years I’ve been following news of developments in climate change, anthropogenic global warming. I subscribe to these news aggregators that every day deliver to…
"I Wish I Had Better News." Yeah, I’ll Bet.
Sea level rise is probably going to be one of the two, perhaps three greatest climate change impacts we’ll experience in the U.S. and Canada over the next few decades.…
Well Hello Dr. Strangelove
His real name is Guy B. Roberts and he’s Donald Trump’s nominee for assistant secretary for nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) programmes at the Defense Department. He may be assistant…
Musings on Religion
I think scripture of any religion is written by old men. I think it’s written by old men mainly for old men. It’s what old men need to hear as…
America’s Victim in Chief
Donald Trump knows a thing or two. He knows that he’s America’s greatest ever reality TV star. He knows he’s America’s victim in chief. The victimization of the martyr president…
The Perspective is Jarring.
Let’s see, 9 billion tonnes of plastic divided by 7.5 billion human beings. That’s 1.2 tonnes of plastic per person or 2,640 pounds. More than 9 billion tonnes of plastic…
John McCain, Brain Cancer
Arizona Senator John McCain has been diagnosed as suffering from brain cancer. The office for the 80-year-old McCain, the Republican nominee for president in 2008 and a U.S. senator representing…
Okay, Kids. Here’s Your Inheritance. You Owe $535 Trillion Dollars.
Imagine if your older generations had handed you a tab of $535 trillion. That’s the estimated cost of “negative emissions” technologies those who follow us will have to implement if…
The Plot to Assassinate Democracy
Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Charles Koch and one James McGill Buchanan and there you have the radical right’s stealth plan to dismember democracy in America. The worst part, according…
Has Justin’s Supertanker Fantasy Already Sailed, Leaving Him Alone at the Dock?
Former oil executive, Ross Belot, has a message of Canada’s prime minister concerning the Tar Sands. The party’s over. The oilsands have become, politically, the gift that keeps on taking.…
Why Is the Trump Regime Going Soft on War Criminals?
Trump’s secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, is shutting down the section of his department that has pursued war criminals. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is downgrading the U.S. campaign against…
The Biggest Lie of All
Donald Trump Jr., a.k.a. “Fredo,” has been snared in a web of lies of his own weaving, forced to change his story on the meeting between the Trump campaign and…
A Field Day for Robert Mueller
Special counsel Robert Mueller and his staff must be shaking their heads as the latest Trump/Russia fiasco unfolds. Donald J. Trump Jr., “Fredo,” has now given four, perhaps five different…
Let’s Talk Famine.
Over the past few days we’ve focused on mass extinction, climate change, overpopulation and the exhaustion of essential resources through over-consumption. How about we move on to something else? How…
It’s Time Halifax Said Good Riddance to that Sonofabitch.
The City of Halifax has responded to First Nations protests by putting a shroud over the statue of Edward Cornwallis, the city’s founder. It seems the Mi’kmaq people still hold…
It’s Time We Had the Conversation Our Governments Have Avoided Giving Us
If a major event was happening in your family wouldn’t it strike you as a bit strange if no one mentioned it. You would sit down for dinner and everyone…
About That Extinction Business.
Like so much of climate science, recent reports that the Earth is already in the throes of a sixth mass extinction event have quickly shifted from science into public relations…