The F-35 Does Win in Air Combat. A Game Says So.
Over at War is Boring there’s a new item about how Lockheed’s immensely flawed F-35 will handily trounce an opposing force of Russia’s pretty amazing Su-35s. Apparently there’s a computer…
The Mound of Sound
Donald Trump Self-Destructs
Trump can’t help himself and today he literally blew himself – and his political aspirations (if he actually held any) to shreds. Apparently smarting from recent remarks by Arizona senator…
"He’s Fired Up the Crazies." The Life and Times of America’s Most Dangerous Narcissist.
Like most of the early Boomer kids, I was fascinated by WWII. Many of our dads had come back from the fighting and our basements would have old steamer chests…
British Columbia says "Butt Out"
Across the west, forest fires are a huge problem this year. The BC government is exploring ways to engage the public in the effort to deter accidental fires. How about…
The Really Big One – a Metaphor for the Age of Climate Change? Tsu Tsu, Tsu Tsu Tsunami.
What is it with kids? You reach a certain point and, suddenly, they want to take over your life. How are you feeling? Are you getting enough of this? Are…
Here’s a Photo. Take It All In. Think About It.
Behold, kayakers paddling along a river of prehistoric glacial melt water.
It Happened – Yesterday – At the Dog Park
I took my little beagle down to the dog park yesterday so he could run and run and run. I swear he’ll outrun any dog on the planet and just…
The Worst Case Scenario
FIFTY? Fifty self-reinforcing feedback mechanisms are now active? University of Arizona professor emeritus, natural resources, ecology and evolutionary biology, Guy McPherson no longer pursues pure science, environmental research. He can’t.…
To All You Dippers Who Claim the Greens are Right-Wing
Relax. You’re just going through a bout of separation anxiety for deserting your post and abandoning the Left. You want to be Latter Day Liberals, you’ve gotta suck it up…
It’s Hard to Believe We Were That Stupid
Just as Europe undermined the EU so too did we undermine, potentially fatally, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Both organizations foolishly indulged in a promiscuous bout of expansion that has…
The European Union Backstory. Greece Is the Least of Its Problems.
We may be on the verge of witnessing a ground shaking, dangerous and scary spectacle – the dismemberment of the European Union. The recent events in Greece may have set…
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? No One, Angela, No One.
Is it the Euro or is it Angela Merkel – or both? Whatever the case, Merkel’s brutal subjugation of Greece has the neighbours outside the Eurozone good cause to think…
Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts
It’s an old adage going back to the legend of the Trojan Horse described by Virgil in the Aeneid. In Latin it’s Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes which translates into…
Sometimes We Have to Take Matters Into Our Own Hands and Out of the Hands of Failed Leaders
Given that all of Canada’s mainstream parties embrace the petro-state, it’s pretty obvious that change is going to have to be driven from without, not within. All this bullshit –…
SeaWorld Infiltrates PETA
The animal rights group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has a long-running battle with SeaWorld, the place that takes beautiful orca and confines them in the orca…
In Harperland, Saying "Drought" Ist Verboten!!!
By Harperland I mean Alberta and Ottawa, two places where it is undesired that anyone should utter the word “drought.” This CBC News report is humorous on one level and…
The Donald Trump Song
I’m pretty sure they wrote this song for Donald Trump and all the lesser Donald Trumps of the world.
He Was Unarmed. Now He’s Dead, Murdered by Los Angeles Cops
The video leaves no doubt. Diaz Zeferino was executed in cold blood by LA cops. Zeferino was out on his bicycle trying to help a friend locate his stolen bike…
Now Vindicated by the IMF, Former Greek FinMin, Yanis Varoufakis Weighs In and He’s Not Pulling Any Punches
He was the burr under Angela Merkel’s saddle until the Troika said he had to go. Now Yanis Varoufakis has given an interview to Britain’s New Statesman, the first since…
Climate Change – Will Drive You Nuts, Really.
It’s something that’s been getting a lot of attention lately – the emotional, psychological overload being experienced by climate scientists and advocates having to deal, up close, day in and…