NFL Kneels to Kaepernick
The message couldn’t be more clear. The National Football League was wrong. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell admitted in video posted to Twitter on Friday that the league should’ve listened to…
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Trump Thinks George Floyd Would Be Delighted With Latest Job Statistics
The crazy bastard actually said that. Driven to madness with the latest job stats showing that the US added 2.5 million jobs last month (unemployment still hovers at 13%), Trump…
The Generals Refuse a Tyrant
It was just over three years ago that Politico published “The Generals Guarding American Democracy: It Has Fallen to Military Men to Keep Our Institutions Safe.” A little more than…
A Blast From the Not Too Distant Past – James Mattis
Former Marine general and ex-Trump defense secretary, James Mattis, rocked a lot of Americans with his scathing statement yesterday, denouncing Donald Trump. We probably should have seen that coming. Here’s…
This May Sound Illogical…
Many of us thought that, if Covid-19 had some silver lining, it would be in a sharp reduction of atmospheric CO2. Air travel all but defunct, fewer of us behind…
Saddam, Bashar, Qaddafi – Plus One
They worked for the CIA. It was their job to spot foreign nations unraveling. Now they’re seeing the signs at home, in Donald Trump’s Amerika. In interviews and posts on…
The Mad Dog Goes for Trump’s Jugular
We are witnessing the consequence of three years without mature leadership. Trump’s original defence secretary, legendary Marine general, James Mattis, has excoriated Donald Trump over his handling of the George…
All Four Cops Now Charged in George Floyd Killing
That’s not to say an American jury will convict them but all four Minneapolis police officers present at the killing of George Floyd will stand trial. Derek Chauvin, the cop…
Is This Terminal-Stage Neoliberalism?
If there was an anthem for the times at hand it might be Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth.” There’s something happening hereWhat it is ain’t exactly clearThere’s a man…
Andrew Coyne’s Pre-Mortem of Donald Trump
Coyne unloads on the man he calls “the least suitable candidate for high office in the United States.” …a petulant, insecure man-child, so wholly lacking in intelligence, competence, integrity or…
Brace Yourself for a Wetter, Deeper Future
There won’t be any Nobel Prizes for this but a report from Environment Canada says that a warmer, more humid atmosphere and increasingly heavy rains and flooding are – wait…
Jane Goodall – Humanity Now Hangs in the Balance.
Renowned naturalist, Jane Goodall, says we have a choice – we either change direction quickly or we’re done. Humanity will be “finished” if we fail to drastically change our food…
Europe Rises Against Racism in the United States
Twitter is full of video clips of protesters massing in cities across Europe to march against racism and the death of George Floyd. In Paris there were clashes with police.…
George W. Bush Scolds Donald Trump
George W. Bush has released a statement saying this isn’t a time to lecture, it’s a time to listen. He writes that he and Mrs. Bush are “anguished by the…
Spotting the Past in the Present.
Is America ripe for an insurgency? A lunatic in the White House is just what any insurgent dreams of. A priority for insurgents is to drive a wedge between the…
George Will Wants the GOP, the Lot of Them, Cast Into the Flames of Hell.
“this low-rent Lear raging on his Twitter-heath has proven that the phrase malignant buffoon is not an oxymoron“ It’s no secret that columnist George Will is no fan of Donald…
Cut and Dried. Autopsy Results on George Floyd Point to One Cause, Homicide by Asphyxiation.
America’s most famous pathologist, Dr. Michael Baden, has no doubt how George Floyd died. Homicide. He was executed. The ambulance that carried him away was his hearse. Sustained pressure on…
"You Say You Want a Revolution"
It was 1968 when the Beatles released “Revolution.” Five years after the Cuban missile crisis. The Soviets and the Americans were in a constant nuclear standoff. America was embroiled in…
I Don’t Even Know How to Process This
How, over the span of 48 or 72 hours, does it seem that America has entered free fall? The brutal death of another unarmed black man at the hands of…
When ‘Normal" Is Pathalogical
A recurrent theme on this blog is the subject of how something as benign sounding as “normal” can be a one-way road to the cliff-edge. Anthropologist, Jared Diamond, addresses normalcy…