The Perils of Judicial Partisanship
The U.S. Supreme Court has greenlighted Donald Trump’s 90-day Muslim travel ban. The U.S.S.C. hasn’t heard arguments yet. No, arguments won’t be heard until sometime in the fall, sometime after…
The Mound of Sound
An Open Book or How to Aid and Abet Your Enemy
Most of us, I suspect, realize that Trump is doing neither himself nor his country any favours with his impulsive and often imprudent tweets. We may realize it but there’s…
You Can’t Lead the Pack If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going
If an enemy of the United States wanted to throw the West into chaos it could not have chosen a better man for president than Donald Trump, a leader whose…
Play It Again, Sam
America’s pointless, indecisive and interminable wars in the Middle East deserve to be called the “forever war.” These are “military wars” being waged for the apparent objective of nothing more…
A Review of Naomi Klein’s "No Is Not Enough."
Ian Gill has done a fine review of Klein’s latest. I’ll leave it to him. Better Gill than an old cynic like me.
Get Your Head Around This. Is 9 the Number of Symmetry in Nature?
What do you think?
Prying Canada Free of the Death Grip of Neoliberalism While There’s Still Time.
It’s time for Ottawa to put the Canadian people ahead of the interests of corporations. In fact, that’s the indispensable key to breaking the death grip of neoliberalism on our…
Mexico Is the New Syria. Say What?
Chances are you’ve holidayed there. No, not Syria, Mexico. That Mexico, our NAFTA partner. Which makes it all the more troubling that Mexico is poised to overtake Syria as the…
Is It Time to Topple the Neoliberal Order?
Has neoliberalism finally run its course? Are Western countries poised to move their political centre back to the progressive left? What we’re seeing underway in Britain may point the way…
Move Over
It was sometime around mid-May that the world’s population broke the 7.5 billion mark. In the 12,000 year history of civilization, it took most of that time, almost all of…
Worth a Look
Elon Musk has released his vision for colonizing Mars. I’m a skeptic but he does make some interesting points. Musk has plainly done a lot of homework. I, like most…
This Won’t Set Well With the Donald
Who can forget the glory days when Donald Trump bragged about putting the kibosh on plans by Ford to build its Focus compact cars in Mexico? He sure straightened them…
Canada’s Energy Policy – Flying At the Speed of Stall.
BC’s Christy Clark had fantasies of massive tankers ferrying liquid natural gas to eager markets in Asia. Every Alberta premier since Peter Lougheed and every recent Canadian prime minister has…
How Hot Is It?
Too damned hot for planes, that’s how hot. Officials at the Phoenix, Arizona airport say 40 flights have been cancelled because some airplanes aren’t designed to fly when temperatures hit…
Because It’s 2017
According to a national pollution inventory, large polluters discharge millions of kilograms of toxic substances into the Canadian environment annually, yet the Toronto Public Library collects more fines for overdue…
In Memoriam – Britain Enters the Brexit Zone
Theresa May plotted to enter Brexit negotiations with the E.U. full of hellfire and fury. Then she buggered up an opportunistic general election, losing the Tories their majority. As if…
Where Trump Goes Lawyer Shopping. Where Else? FOX News, That’s Where.
The bizarre story of how Donald Trump found his personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow from Salon.com. Last week The Washington Post dropped one of the biggest bombshells of the Russia scandal…
Maybe I’ll Stick With Dreary and Cold
My daughter called me for Father’s Day. Kind of a lousy day – grey, windy, damp, maybe 15 degrees Celsius. That was here on Vancouver Island, not in Dublin where…
Bye, Bye, See Ya.
When is a daily newspaper not a daily? When it chooses to become something else, I suppose. Paul Godfrey’s National Post is giving up on Mondays. There’ll be no print…
Ask a Stupid Question, Get an Unwelcome Answer.
The Age of Trump has made some of us wonder if people are simply getting dumber. There’s this inescapable, nagging feeling that people have become less intelligent. Sure, part of…