Meanwhile, In Households Across America, This –
Well, in white households, that is.
The Mound of Sound
Not Quite Off the Hook But Getting Closer.
Okay, so we in the industrialized nations of the northern hemisphere, are the heavy emitters of bad stuff that gets pumped into the atmosphere – CO2, methane, ozone and such.…
Money + Politics = Support for Democracy
At least that’s what finance minister, Bill Morneau, says whether he believes it or not. Finance Minister Bill Morneau is continuing to defend his fundraising activities, arguing that people who…
Encouraging Noises from the Dauphin
He’s saying some of the right things. It’s a start. Prime minister Trudeau has announced a 5-year, 1.5 billion dollar programme to upgrade responses to tanker and oil spills on…
The Liberal Order’s Obituary
Is the liberalism we have known all our lives a thing of the past? Have we entered a post-liberal era? John Gray, writing in The New Statesman, suggests as much…
The View from Germany. Drumpf Is For Losers.
The message from the photo in Der Spiegel couldn’t be any clearer. In Donald Trump’s America even the flag is in for a grope. They find that Trump is the…
Guess Who Got It Wrong? Just About Everybody, Including Nick Stern.
Ten years have passed since Nicholas Stern, former World Bank Chief Economist and policy wonk to Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, produced the Stern Review Report on the Economics of…
Wait, I’m Pretty Sure I Voted for Some of These People. Haven’t You?
Sorry, my bad. I was thinking of horses. These are plainly backbenchers. There’s a proposal to levy carbon taxes on meat and dairy products. The photo shows the carbon emission…
For Shock Value, This One’s Hard to Beat
Indian authorities have declared a state of emergency in Delhi due to extremely high levels of smog, especially PM2.5 particulate matter. PM2.5 particles are small enough to be absorbed by…
So Many Emails, So Little Time.
It’s the favourite food of conspiracy theorists and their zookeeper, Donald J. Trump. “The fix is in.” The proof – the massive number of emails the FBI would have had…
Now They Tell Us. The FBI Says Latest Clinton Email Controversy Much Ado About Nothing.
Hillary Clinton is off the hook, again. The FBI, whose director sprang a late election surprise by revealing a further investigation into Clinton emails, now has given the “all clear”…
Now They Tell Us. The FBI Says Latest Clinton Email Controversy Much Ado About Nothing.
Hillary Clinton is off the hook, again. The FBI, whose director sprang a late election surprise by revealing a further investigation into Clinton emails, now has given the “all clear”…
Wouldn’t You Like to See This Bastard Behind Bars?
Has Rudi Giuliani tripped himself up?
An Economic System Incompatible With Life on Earth. Time to Move On to Something Better.
The only thing that troubles me about this is having to say it yet again – our addiction to perpetual exponential growth is not survivable. It is lethal. It will…
What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Delhi has staged a 10K race while pollution levels soar to 16 times above anything considered safe. The culprit is known as PM 2.5. 60 ppm is considered the maximum…
Cornel West Nails America’s Electoral Catastrophe
The headline in the Boston Globe says it all: “Spiritual Blackout in America: Election 2016.“ THE MOST FRIGHTENING feature of the civic melancholia in present-day America is the relative collapse…
Heads Up, Gullibillies. Trump Is No Revolutionary, No Messiah, No Saviour.
Trump supporters share one thing – a belief that their guy will bring revolutionary change to the United States, its government and its economy. That’s a religious-grade belief of the…
Show Us It Floats.
Most British Columbians expect the Trudeau government will throw its environmental credibility down the toilet and approve the Kinder Morgan pipeline intended to carry some 890,000 barrels of dilbit each…
Young Canadian Eco-Terrorists Occupy Cathy McKenna’s Office. Terrorists Subdued by Overwhelming Wave of Weasel Words.
Look at these fiendish little bastards. These murderous eco-anarchists occupied EnviroMin, Dame Cathy’s office. They protested in response to Kinder Morgan president Ian Anderson’s claim that scientists are still debating…