Oh, Damn! Jimmy Carter has Cancer.
The most decent president in modern memory, Jimmy Carter, has announced that he has cancer and it has spread throughout his body, apparently metastasized. He’s the sort of gentleman who’ll…
The Mound of Sound
Big Day Tomorrow – It’s Earth Overshoot Day – August 13, 2015.
Tomorrow is Earth Overshoot Day, the date on which mankind has gobbled up a full year’s worth of renewable resources – biomass, water and such. The date falls a couple…
Sure, Nigel, So Why Didn’t You Just Write Him a Cheque and Be Done With It?
Let the narrative unfold. Nigel Wright says he gave Duffy a cheque for $90,000 to clear the Cavendish Cottager’s Senate tab because he felt an obligation to Old Duff. Really,…
Well Isn’t That Just Typical – Two Old Jews…
Who just happen to be totally awesome – Noam Chomsky and Bernie Sanders. Chomsky is plainly on board with Sanders quest for the Democratic presidential nomination only he doesn’t think…
NDP Candidate Dares to Speak the Truth – And Is Promptly Dropped.
In Tommy Angry Beard’s NDP there’ll be no straight talk about Israel and its steady atrocities against Palestinian civilians in the prison camp commonly known as Gaza. There’ll be no…
IPCC – "Criminally Complacent"
Arctic expert, professor Peter Wadhams, doesn’t think much of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In fact, the Cambridge professor of ocean physics and head of the university’s Polar Oceans…
The Sparks Will Fly on Wednesday
Nigel Wright steps into the witness box to re-open the Duffy trial on Wednesday. It’s hard to see that there’s much middle ground available to Wright. He will either exonerate…
The Tyee Outs "Harper the Serial Abuser"
A fine little compendium of the abuses and excesses of the Prince of Darkness from our friends at the Left Coast Tyee. You might want to add this to your…
And So It Goes
Think of them as the rectal thermometer of our oceans and lakes – algae blooms and blankets of seaweed. When they start showing up, en masse, on your coast and…
The New York Times’ Fuzzy Logic
An editorial in today’s New York Times illustrates how besotted American thinking remains on international affairs. Time to unpack the Times’ fuzzy logic. The editorial concerns international rivalry over Arctic…
The Point of No Return?
A friend sent me a link to a Rolling Stone article, “The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares are Already Here.” It’s a relatively complete and accurate synopsis of…
Gorbie Says – "Ban the Bomb"
Earlier this week Der Spiegel published an interview with Mikhail Gorbachev in which the former Soviet/Russian leader reflected quite eloquently on the perilous state of nuclear weaponry in the 21st…
Dippers, Beware of a Left Wing Insurgency
Britain’s Labour Party may offer a cautionary tale for today’s Blairified New Democrats. Layton and Mulcair have been Harper’s handmaidens in His quest to shift Canada’s political centre far to…
You Can Always Plaster Harper’s Face on a Billboard
Check this out. Dogwood Initiative’s election billboard. Awesome.
Think About It. Are You Really Okay With This?
The folks at National Geographic want a moment of your attention. They want you to absorb what’s happening on our Arctic doorstep. To do that they’ve produced this GIF showing…
The Guardian Sums Up Last Night’s Debates.
Oh hell, what do the Brits know about Canadian politics? Based on the debates I watched, I’d say quite a bit. Here’s the conclusion in its entirety: And, we’re done.…
The Guardian Nails What’s at Stake in Canada’s Federal Election
The October elections offer Canada a chance to return to the country’s best traditions That pretty much sums up what this election means to Canadians – a chance to return…
If They Can Call Me an Extremist, I Can Return the Favour and Call Them Terrorists.
In Stevie Harper’s dystopian vision of Canada, I am a dangerous extremist, a radical, a lurking eco-terrorist because I, like so many coastal British Columbians are resolved to oppose the…
Truth from the Sea
If there’s one thing climate change deniers steer well clear of, it’s the state of our oceans. They confine their lies to cherry-picked data about global warming of the atmosphere,…