Too Good Not to Share. Zondag Met Lubach on Trump. Brace Yourself, This is Hilarious.
This is one I think you’re going to want to pass around.
The Mound of Sound
The Birth of a New World, Possibly Our Last.
From Deutsche Welle, “Hate Is In the Air”: “The old world of the 20th century is over for good” – Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the current German foreign minister and probable next…
Carl Sagan Foresaw Today
Astronomer Carl Sagan left a vacuum with his passing. Fortunately, he also left behind a great deal of timeless wisdom. Consider this in the “alternative fact” world of Donald J.…
Good News? Trump Has Rejected the Trans Pacific Partnership
The New York Times is reporting that Trump has said “no” to the Trans Pacific Partnership, the TPP. With Junior in trail that presumably takes Canada off the TPP hook.…
2016 Was the Hottest Year on Record. So What?
2016 is in the books on the hottest year on record – since this data was recorded. 2016 stole the crown from the previous hottest year on record, 2015, which,…
He’s Right. Yanis Varoufakis on Why Liberal Democracy Must Jettison Neoliberalism.
He’s the most interesting fellow that the Greek Syriza movement produced, its former finance minister until his resignation in July, 2015. Now, Yanis Varoufakis is warning of two insurgencies underway.…
Trump’s New War to Subdue the Press
America’s newly minted president or, as Scotian calls him, TrumpleThinSkin, has unleashed some remarkably mangy dogs on the White House press corps. The most parasite riddled of the lot, press…
And So It Begins
Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer, bitchslaps the White House press corps. Listen to this loon rattle on. Then again, maybe the inauguration turnout was greater than the press corps understood.…
Hmm, One of these Is Not Like the Other.
One photo was taken in 2009. The other in 2017. Can you guess which?
Trump Pledges to Restore American Wealth. I Know Where He Can Find It.
El Presidente Trump has made a vow to restore America’s wealth. Of course that’s not what he intends to do at all. It’s the Big Lie, Day One. What he…
Tuning Up the Proles
You can’t have a totalitarian state without a suitably “tuned up” population. North Korea is a perfect example. Germany or Italy in the 30s were fine examples. The Soviet Union,…
Trudeau Has Dug a Grave for the Paris Climate Accord. Thanks, Justin.
Trudeau has put paid to any notion of restraining global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The Tyee’s Andrew Nikiforuk writes that a new study by Oil Change International shines a…
Figures Don’t Lie But Liars Figure
As of today it’s best you remember that phrase and keep it in mind. You’ll find that, over the next four years, you may need it daily. Around the time…
Harper Humps Trump
Beijing Butt-Kisser Extraordinaire, Sideshow Steve Harper, has slithered back into public view to praise what he predicts will be Donald Trump’s hostility to China. Harper says Trump will erase the…
Sam Bee on Kellyanne Conway
This time tomorrow the wildly unpopular Donald Trump will be president of the United States of America. Sam Bee takes a look at the woman who put him there:
Monbiot – But, Hey, Does This Sound Familiar?
Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, lambastes America’s incoming president. Here’s the gist of it. Now I want you to take away “Trump” and replace it with another leader’s name, our own.…
The Real Trump Scandal
Forget the story about hookers peeing on hotel beds. That’s the story that was seized on by the media, the idea that Putin has recordings of Trump perversions. The real…
Demographic Fairy Tales
Never has mankind’s future been so uncertain. There are powerful forces at work today and we have only the vaguest notion of how they’ll play out individually much less collectively…
This Might Go a Long Way to Explaining Trump
Donald Trump behaves just like a person in the throes of severe sleep deprivation. No, this isn’t just casting bones and reading entrails. During the nomination and election campaigns Trump…
The Ball is in Your Court Now, Assange
Chelsea Manning has received clemency from Barack Obama. Now it’s time for Julian Assange to turn himself in to American authorities. “If Obama grants Manning clemency,” the WikiLeaks tweet read,…