Floridians Come to Grips With a Threat Their Politicians Deny Exists
One of the issues I focus on every day or two is sea level rise. I suppose that’s natural given that the sea is about a block down the road…
The Mound of Sound
The "Dress Rehearsal for Fascism"
No matter whether you support or despise Donald Trump, you’ve been changed.All Canadians are impacted in numerous ways by the body politic of our next door neighbour – our one…
The "Dress Rehearsal for Fascism"
No matter whether you support or despise Donald Trump, you’ve been changed.Even Canadians are impacted by the body politic of our next door neighbour – our one and only next…
We Are, Indeed, Living in Interesting Times
My parents lived through the Great Depression. They lived through World War II. They lived through the Cold War. They lived in “interesting times” fraught with peril and struggle and…
Do Internet Trolls Have a Thing For Donald Trump?
One of the most unpleasant and tedious aspects of maintaining a blog is the bouts of the dreaded troll virus. There’s usually a flair up when some particular issue surfaces…
A Simple Matter of Punctuation
Rebecca Piazza has released a tweet that explains the difference between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in a simple matter of punctuation. CLINTONTo women: You can do anything TRUMPTo women,…
What If We All Went Out In This Costume at Halloween?
Here’s an idea. Everybody in this costume. You can easily reverse engineer this for guys. This is British journalist and heiress, Jemima Khan. Brilliant.
How Trump Tripped Up
Trump, being Trump, set himself up for disaster. His top campaign staff wanted, even demanded, to run a forensic investigation on The Donald to uncover and prepare for anything scandalous…
Trump Has Spawned a New Art Genre
Could this be why they’re called “deplorables”?
A Running Tab – Trump Follies
It’s getting hard to keep straight the accounts being levelled at Donald Trump by women who say he took sexual liberties with them. To this end, Slate.com is going to…
A Beauty Queen Speaks Out
Donald Trump knows how he likes his beauty queens – naked and mute. After his bizarre attacks on a former Miss Universe, another contestant, a former Miss Arizona, Tasha Dixon,…
Australian Pols Divided on Donald Trump
Former Harper BFF and deposed prime minister, Tony Abbott, thinks Donald Trump is basically okay and says most of Trump’s supporters are not “deplorables.” Abbott seems to be a majority…
Trump Supporters Latest Pitch? "Repeal the 19th Amendment"
Some diehard Trump supporters are taking to Twitter to support the repeal of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution, the one that gave women the right to vote. Their…
Well That’s Certainly Awkward
Four Republican members of Congress who denounced Donald Trump and retracted their endorsements of their party’s presidential nominee have now retracted their retractions. The quick reversals back to Mr. Trump’s…
Bad Moon Rising
Oh dear, EnviroCan is warning that the island is going to take a kicking, several kickings in succession, starting tonight and running through Sunday. It reminds me of John Fogerty…
Hillary’s Emails Finger – Saudi Arabia, the Real State Sponsor of Terrorism
Great, Canada is shipping weaponry to the real state sponsor of terrorism in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia. Take it from Hillary Clinton or rather this email she wrote in…
George Will’s Prognosis – It’ll Take Chemotherapy for the GOP to Save Itself from Trump
Chaos has caught up with the Republican Party and, while there’s never been a better opportunity to indulge in schadenfreude, that would be a terrible mistake. It’s important that the…
Monbiot – The Madness of Neoliberalism
The Guardian’s George Monbiot contends that today’s hyper-neoliberalism is fueling mental illness. What greater indictment of a system could there be than an epidemic of mental illness? Yet plagues of…