Teach Your Children Well
Every parent should teach their teenage children a few steps to take if and when they experience an abusive incident.It should go without saying that the first priority is to…
The Mound of Sound
Rethinking Natural Gas – the Wrong Fuel at the Worst Possible Time
Many people have bought the company line that natural gas is far less damaging environmentally than the alternatives, especially coal. The truth is it's about as bad, maybe worse -…
It’s Easter. Happy Easter.
Happy Easter, you Pagan bastards.
Sure, Why Not?
A group is petitioning for permission to exercise their God-given, Second Amendment rights at the Republican Party convention. Americans for Responsible Open Carry launched the petition which had gathered 12,000…
If You Can’t Accept the Ghomeshi Trial Verdict, the Problem is Yours
This item from CBC News says it all.Relax. Ghomeshi is still a perv. His celebrity lies at his feet in ashes. His acquittal, however, lies at the feet of the…
Will the Left Coast be Bernie’s Salvation?
For those who assume Hillary Clinton has the Democratic nomination cinched, don't count your eggs... The West Coast could be Hillary's Waterloo.Bernie Sanders’ momentum appears to be growing as he…
Rockefeller Ditches/Slams Exxon –
A body blow for Big Fossil. A one-two combination has Exxon reeling. The first was a punch to the gut from the Rockefellers. Then came the uppercut to the chin…
I Just Hope He’s Wrong
It's hard not to respect James Hansen, the man often called "the grandfather of climate science." The retired former director of the NASA Goddard space science laboratory created a stir…
It Had to Come to This
One thing the free traders never raised with us was the day when other countries would try to lock up our farmland. It's called "food security" and, while you haven't…
How Pending Trade Deals Could Tie Our Hands on Climate Change
How much of your government do you want run by fossil fuel giants? How much of what remains of our national sovereignty do you want Justin Trudeau to surrender without…
Another Hope Dashed
No secret that the Republicans are in a jam - truly deep kimchee. It's gotten to the point where even Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush are swallowing Xanax by the…
Well, When You Put It That Way
Good news. Investment in coal and gas-fired power plants fell to less than half the investment in renewable, clean energy production. That sounds better than it is.With more rapid-onset climate…
No Surprise, Ghomeshi Aquitted
This trial will be remembered as a pinnacle of prosecutorial and investigatorial incompetence.Ghomeshi has been acquitted of all three charges. He is a free man.Will he again climb the ranks…
An Aftermath Isn’t a Legacy.
All this talk about Rob Ford's "legacy." What nonsense. Who exactly is carrying on Rob Ford's work, his mission? What's he remembered for other than providing endless fodder for American…
It’s Time We Had a Grown-Up Conversation About Free Trade
If there's one thing we've learned about globalization and free trade agreements it's that they never seem to end. Wrap one up and somebody's already writing a new one.Actually we've…
Perfidy
What do the Fraser Institute and climate change have in common? To B.C. premier, Christy Clark, the answer seems to be "plenty."Clark has been looking for a new deputy climate…
Rob Ford Dead
Rob Ford succumbed to cancer at age 46
In Other "Cattle Class" News
Can you imagine the joys of flying economy "cattle class" for 19 hours at a stretch? That flight doesn't exist - yet - but according to Aviation Week it could…
The New York Times – Another Critique of Today’s Global Trade Deals
In response to yesterday's post of Robert Reich's essay on how free trade deals have morphed into pacts that benefit corporations, not people, reader Chris ("CRF") provided a link to…
Are We Also Heading Down this Same Destructive Path?
A report in Pew Research calls America's affliction, "a rise in identity-based animus of one party toward the other that extends far beyond the issues." These days Democrats and Republicans…