When You Need a Break
Here’s a fun way to spend a few minutes of your coffee break. From The Guardian, it’s called “spot the sniper.” It’s a series of nature photographs. Somewhere in each…
The Mound of Sound
Barack to Steve, Let’s Deal with Climate Change
“He Didn’t Hear a Word I Said.” After their private tete-a-tete in Mexico, the president of the United States and the prime minister of Canada each released summaries of their…
Harper Embarrasses Himself, His Office and Canada to Boot
The president’s gone, Mr. Harper. You can come out now. Give the man his due, Stephen Harper towers over every other prime minister before him in how he has managed…
Will Christie Clark Infect British Columbia with the Alberta Disease?
When a government mired in debt and deficits allows itself to become dependent on royalties from a non-renewable resource to make up 30% of its general revenues it might just…
Revealed – the Two Faces of Tony Blair. They’re Both Ugly.
A lot of people realized when Tony Blair jumped aboard the Bush/Cheney bandwagon to conquer Iraq that he was a two-faced weasel. Now, courtesy of Rupert Murdoch, any lingering doubt…
It’s Not the Senate, But Close
Disgraced, ex-Tory senator Patrick Brazeau has found work apparently almost in the shadow of Parliament Hill. Brazeau is the new day manager at the Bare Fax Gentlemen’s Club. A visitor…
Big Oil Preps Harper for Obama Meeting
Stephen Harper apparently didn’t get the message that Obama doesn’t want to be pestered about the Keystone XL pipeline. U.S. officials in advance of the North American leaders summit in…
Afghanistan’s Ethnic Curse Returns
For centuries it sat astride the major trade route connecting the western world with the east. The result today is a country plagued with tribalism resulting from ethnic division. They’re…
Volkswagen Labour Council Vows to Block Expansion in the Anti-Union South.
Wrap your head around this idea. Volkswagen AG has a labour panel – 20 members, half-management, half-labour. The panel has to approve any plant closures or plant expansions and, right…
About that Polar Vortex.
The first settled and most heavily populated parts of the United States and Canada are, of course, in the east. That’s why, when a major weather event sweeps everything east…
Bully Boy Bibi Plays the Anti-Semite Card, Again.
If you support the anti-Israel boycott you’re an anti-Semite, plain and simple. That’s doubly true if you’re European. So says Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime…
Gwynne Dyer – Blame the Sky Gods
Gwynne Dyer thinks it was a nasty trick. It was, after all, supposed to be the poor and vulnerable little people of the equatorial zone that were hammered by climate…
Just Sayin’ But, If You’re Of a Mind to Attack Switzerland…
If you, for some reason, decide you want to attack Switzerland, here’s a tip. Do it before 8 a.m., or during the noon – 1:30 lunch hour, or anytime after…
The Stench of Fear
The smell of fear is real. It’s detectable. It is said that higher predators can detect it and it triggers them to attack. Even if they can’t smell it, they…
This Is Going to Trash Real Estate Prices
Starting this year, buyers shopping for a nice coastal dream home in the U.S. will be able to consult ‘storm surge maps’ produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…
Coming Soon – 3-Billion More "Big Mouths" to Feed
The world’s middle class is on the verge of a population explosion. Sorry, Earth. Of the 7+ billion people on the planet today, about 1.8-billion are considered middle-class or make…
HarperLand Snubs the US EPA on Kinder Morgan.
When it comes to dilbit pipelines, the Harper government is in no mood to extend courtesies to potential troublemakers, even the American Environmental Protection Agency. Harper’s National Energy Board has…
Wrong Again. Science Underestimates Impact of Loss of Arctic Sea Ice – By a Country Mile.
Scientists have long warned that the loss of Arctic sea ice was warming the polar region and contributing to climate change impacts. It’s basic physics. Ice, being white, reflects solar…
The 30-Year Trap
Weather is today. Climate is 30-years of todays. Climate science looks at weather patterns over a suitable period, usually at least three decades. 30-years is okay, a century is better,…