Scalia, Dead at 79
The voice of the fringe right on the US Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia, is dead. Plenty of time for Obama to appoint a replacement.
The Mound of Sound
"..To the Shores of Tripoli"
Is it time to shoot-up Libya? DefMin Harjit Sajjan hints that Canada may be looking for a new shooting war assisting Italian forces to fight ISIS militias in Libya.Perhaps it's…
Sorry Liberals. Sorry New Dems. Sorry Conservatives. Even Thomas Friedman has Thrown In the Towel on Israel.
It's called reality and it's the rarest of commodities when Canada's political leadership addresses the subject of Israel. Mention Israel and they become so gushing that I sometimes fear one…
Will 2017 Be the Year of the Great Global Migration?
It's going to happen and, when it does, it will eclipse anything we experienced in 2015. "It" refers to the first of what is predicted to become a constant wave…
Imagine If You Were Like Most People on Earth
Thank your lucky stars you're not. You're Canadian which is another way of saying very, very fortunate.A new study finds that almost two-thirds of mankind endures a severe water shortage…
Big Fossil’s Achilles’ Heel
You don't often come across a vulnerability this huge. The fossil energy companies, virtually the lot of them, have a ginormous problem. Their commercial viability is dependent on maintaining a…
Cultivated Ignorance
If American students are told much at all about climate change, there's a good chance what they're being told isn't true much less informative.In the first national survey of classroom…
Why There Aren’t Enough Bombs to Stop ISIS
Well there are but they're nuclear and they would pretty much wipe us all out.The problem with ISIS, ISIL, Da'esh - whatever you call them - is that those guys…
Those Who Dare to Go Big Actually Go Big
So, what's our excuse? Oh, that's right, we're a petro-state. Europe is different. So different that they're making huge strides in introducing renewable energy. So huge that some of them,…
Johnny Depp Channels Donald J. Trump
Well, actually, it's Johnny Depp with , Ron Howard, Alfred Molina, Robert Morse, Patton Oswalt, Jack McBrayer, Michaela Watkins, Henry Winkler, Stephen Merchant, Christopher Lloyd,Kristen Schaal, Andy Richter, Paul Scheer,…
Hillary as Groucho
Grist has a report of how Hillary Clinton now opposes oil drilling in the Atlantic, a bid to siphon some of the environmental vote away from Bernie Sanders.It brought me…
The Royal Canadian Navy to Begin Refugee Patrols in the Aegean.
South of the Rio Grande they're called La Migra, the U.S. Border Patrol agents who intercept illegal immigrants heading for the States.Europe will soon have its own La Migra only…
BC Throne Speech – Be Vigilant Lest We Become Another Alberta
The burn. Christy Clark's message to British Columbians is to be vigilant so we don't become another Alberta. Madam premier then went on to add that Alberta has "lost its…
Sorry to Piss on Your Parade, But…
We've had a gutfull of wonderful, inspiring words from the new Liberal prime minister but sometimes reality gets in the way to shred that tissue of comfort.There's this, for starters.…
So Much for Democracy, Mr. Brooks
New York Times' conservative columnist, David Brooks, knows that American politics is in the hands of an elite, the "donor class." Listen as he urges the Republican donor class to…
That Nagging Thought in the Back of My Mind
After the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary the pundits are going crazy. Hillary narrowly squeaked past Bernie Sanders in Iowa only to get flushed straight down the storm…
This Should Be Interesting – Netanyahu to Delineate Israel’s Border.
Israeli prime minister, Bibi Netanyahu, has announced a plan to encircle the state of Israel with a security fence saying, "In our neighbourhood, we need to protect ourselves from wild…
Reality Check – Man Made Climate Change Will Last for Thousands of Years
We have left our mark on the Earth and our environmental footprint is going to last probably 10-thousand years or more.We typically think in terms of a decade, perhaps a…
The Game’s Afoot – Again
What is it with unattached feet, sneakers and Vancouver Island?Another solo pedibus in a shoe has washed up, this time at Port Renfrew's beautiful Botanical Beach. Between August 2007 and…
Iggy Doesn’t Just Want an Air War Over Syria. He Wants a Shooting War with the Russians.
Thank God and Greyhound he's gone. It's in the Washington Post. The Count, Iggy, former Liberal clown prince, wants NATO to declare part of Syria a "no fly" zone. Ignatieff…