So Much Worse Than I Had Imagined
I hope to not hear anyone boasting about our great Canadian values, not for a while, not after the discovery of 215 unmarked children’s graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential…
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Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Zeynep Tufecki warns that the deadliest phase of the coronavirus pandemic may be yet to come even after vaccines become widely capable of…
Musical interlude
Tame Impala – Tomorrow’s Dust
About that Separation of Church and State Thing.
America has a new Bible. It’s the “God Bless America Bible.” Think of it as the scriptural equivalent of Reese’s pieces. The “God Bless the USA Bible” is expected to…
The Disaffected Lib Mk. II 2021-05-28 12:28:00
What sort of a summer are we in for? That depends on where you stand in a latitudinal sense. The more distance between you and the equator the better off…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Matt Gurney questions how it is that Ontario (like other provinces) is continuing to avoid any meaningful planning in its pandemic response, with…
It’s Time to Face Up to Reality
The Palestinian people are captive and, unless they leave their homeland, they will remain captive. Says who? Well, among others, Gwynne Dyer. He writes that the liberal progressive Israel embraced…
Farewell Ottawa, Hello Friendly Lane?
He was called many things, few of them flattering. He may have been the greatest fundraising machine on two legs the Tories ever had but, before long, he became a…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ian Welsh calls out the latest example of deceptive use of COVID-19 data to minimize the risk people continue to face, as…
A Ray of Hope on the Covid Front
People who have either had Covid-19 or been inoculated against it may have much greater immunity than initially expected. Immunity to the coronavirus lasts at least a year, possibly a…
When Governments Won’t Act Because They Don’t Want To Do the Right Thing
Does this sound familiar? All governments , but XXXXX XXXXXXX’s has perfected the art. It operates on the principle of commitment inflation: as the action winds down, the pledges ramp…
A Fancy Way of Saying ‘Theft’
De facto annexation. That’s how Ireland’s foreign minister describes Israel’s utterly illegal theft of the lands of the Palestinians. For decades much of the land Israel seized in the West…
On unhealthy bias
Shorter Murray Mandryk: It’s important that we have compassion for everybody’s mental health concerns regardless of politics. And by that, I of course mean allowing partisan operatives from only one…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Grace Blakeley discusses how corporate handouts represent a major contributor to the concentration of wealth by the richest few. And CNN reports on…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats amid chaos.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Robert Reich offers some lessons we need to draw from the coronavirus pandemic – including the recognition that while billionaires won’t save…
Hedges on Israel – No Surprises There
Chris Hedges is an outspoken, full throated supporter of Palestine and its people. You won’t find a shred of neutrality in him but he would say exactly the same about…
It’ll Take More Than Solar Panels and Electric Cars
At some level most of us probably know that solar panels and electric cars won’t be enough to avert a climate catastrophe. Yet they do appeal to our inner “lazy…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Jenna Gettings et al. study the massive effect masking and improved ventilation have in reducing the spread of the coronavirus in elementary schools.…
As Long As They’re Here, They Might as Well Make Themselves Useful.
Next month, the US will release a report on everything (almost) the government knows about UFOs, now called UAPs or Unmanned Aerial Phenomenon. The report is expected to include scores…