What Won’t We Think of Next?
Devices, like the one pictured above, are catching on in our water-scarce world. It’s a combination, sink-toilet. Waste water from the sink is used for toilet flushing. Makes perfect sense.…
The Mound of Sound
Even Norway Gets the Dutch Disease
We sometimes think of Norway as the country where fossil fuel riches are handled responsibly, not like the Alberta and Canadian governments that just piss it all away. Yes, Norway…
Conspicuous Consumption at Its Finest
When you really need to say, “I’ve got mine and you and your planet can go straight to Hell,” nothing beats a mega-yacht just like any of these currently on…
And We Thought All We Had to Deal With Was Enbridge.
Nexen, the Chinese Communist Party’s anchor in Athabasca, is urging Canadian National Railways to start shipping bitumen by rail car to Prince Rupert where it can then be loaded on…
Our Governments Gave Up the Business of Protecting Us a Long Time Ago. Will Banks Fill the Breach?
We know that a fossil fuel future is unsustainable. Even the energy industry may agree that fossil fuel consumption is unsustainable but just not yet. The old nag has still…
Top Quebec Tory Fine with Charter of Values
The Quebec government’s proposed Charter of Values may have Jason Kenney’s frillies in a bunch but the Tories’ senior minister from Quebec, Denis Lebel, is fine with it. According to…
Iggy’s Back – Slamming Dion, Rae & Layton
Michael Ignatieff has a reputation for smearing others, even where they’ve been right and he’s been wrong, and he appears to have lost none of his appetite for that sort…
Lapham Visits Death
For 40 years during the Cold War, the American government, both Democrat and Republican, deployed the shadow of death (i.e., the constant threat of nuclear annihilation) to limit the freedoms…
Virginia Is For Lovers – Provided They’re Married and It’s Missionary Position Only
If you enjoy politics, there’s no end of fascinating stuff coming out of Virginia in the runup to state elections. State Republicans are in a tizzy at the prospect of…
Underestimating Climate Change is "Absurd."
British economist, Lord Nick Stern, says it would be “absurd” to downplay the risks that climate change poses to the world. The former World Bank chief economist and author of…
Because in Vlad Putin’s Russia, This is Piracy
A few inflatable boats delivering a handful of protesters to a massive Russian oil rig in the Arctic and, according to Vlad Putin, that’s piracy for which they could be…
A Hot Time at the U.N.
Everybody is getting candid all of a sudden. Maybe the new Pope, Francis, is setting an example. At the United Nations, Barack Obama actually cut Iran a little slack, telling…
Greetings from Global Warming. Now Pay Up or Else.
It doesn’t matter how certain they are that climate change is a hoax. They’re still going to have to pay up. The U.S. federal flood insurance programme (private sector insurers…
Pope Francis, Here. Today’s Sermon – Globalization Sucks!
Know what Pope Francis likes about globalization? Nothing. Big fat zero. Visiting an Italian region especially hard hit by the European economic crisis, Pope Francis blamed high unemployment on globalization…
Steve, Alison, Christy – a Moment of Your Time Please
Canada’s got some pretty hardcore fossil fuelers from Steve Harper to Alberta’s Alison Redford and British Columbia’s Christy Clark. Waiting in the wings to join them are Tommy Mulcair and…
Concealed Handguns and Road Rage. What Could Go Wrong?
Two motorists, each with a concealed weapon permit. Add one portion of road rage. Stir.
The Rise of the Gullibillies
Today’s hard Right draws an astonishing amount of electoral support from people who are simply too damned dumb to realize they’re voting against their self-interest. This is especially true of…
Today With Pope Francis – Money Is the Root of All Evil.
Somebody, on the inside, is going to knock this guy off. He’s telling way, way too much truth. But if the Pope is just too hard to take, you can…
Credit Poor Marksmanship and Sheer Luck
A mass shooting in Chicago has left 13-wounded but, so far, no dead. The fusillade was attributed to gang violence and many of the wounded were gang members. Police say…
Weaver Slams Christy Clark’s Gassy Pipedream
Green Party MLA and professor, Andrew Weaver, says B.C. premier Christy Clark’s vision of a future economy padded by immense wealth from liquified natural gas exports is a fantasy. “I…