Faint Praise
The Globe editorial board is practically giddy at the prospect that Canada is edging ahead of the United States on Covid-19 vaccinations. While this is the sort of thing that…
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Exorcising the Ghost of Pinochet
The Chilean people are ready to ditch the constitution imposed on them by former strongman/murderer, general Augusto Pinochet. 2/3rds of the seats in the General Assembly are going to the…
Consuming Earth
We are coming to realize that mankind is reaching our limits, albeit belatedly. That old line about giving 110 per cent is now about taking 150 per cent. That’s precisely…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Tonda MacCharles reports on David Naylor’s justified call for an inquiry into Canada’s pandemic response. And Peter Walker’s report on the rapid…
What Future?
My mother was fond of reminding her sons that the road to Hell was paved with good intentions. Let’s not allow the climate crisis become that road to Hell. Biden…
Is This Madness to You?
I came across an article yesterday about some guy in Texas whose pet tiger got out. Fortunately it was just a cub, still temporarily docile, and was quickly recovered before…
I Despise Netanyahu. That Doesn’t Make Me an Anti-Semite.
I hate terrorism. I hated the it when Assad ordered barrel bombs dropped on civilians in Aleppo. I hated it it when ISIS savagely overran the center of Iraq to…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Both Apoorva Mandavilli and Sara Mojtehedzadeh highlight how a failure to ensure air quality in workplaces to limit aerosol transmission has been one…
Chip, Chip, Chipping Away at Reproductive Rights in Washington
A case will come before the US Supreme Court this fall that opponents claim could mark the beginning of the end of Roe v. Wade. The oh so enlightened state…
Sunday Evening Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Marianne Guenot reports on a World Health Organization-backed report confirming that political leaders could have averted the spread of COVID-19, but failed…
Why Comparing Taxes is Futile
Some Canadians have the idea that we pay way too much in taxes, especially compared to Americans. Don’t buy that nonsense. They’re comparing apples to watermelons – big, huge, watermelons.…
A Handful of Deviants Manipulate the Co-Vidiots
According to the Center for Countering Digital Hate, just 12 individuals are responsible for spreading most of the disinformation and outright lies about Covid vaccine on social media. “The ‘Disinformation…
Bernie Sanders – Enough Already
US Senator Bernie Sanders writes it’s time for America (and, by implication, Canada) to stop being an apologist for Benjamin Netanyahu. No one is arguing that Israel, or any government,…
The Other Pandemic – Moral Decay.
I spotted this on social media the other day: “Fascinated by how the behaviour of people who took 3 slices of pizza at the pizza party because they thought it…
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Deftones – This Link Is Dead
When You’re Doug Ford and Kelly McParland Turns On You, You Might Be in Trouble
Fatuous. There’s a ring to that word at least when Kelly McParland is using it. For all-time most fatuous remarks by a serving politician, Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s explanation for…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Smart compares Canada’s fiscal response to the COVID crisis to the reaction to previous recessions – finding that benefits for people are…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Matt Gurney discusses the need for public health planning to reflect the predictable reactions of people whose compliance affects the viability of…
Is America Just Spoiling For a Fight?
It’s been a long, long time since I was in a fight but not so long to erase the memory of the dance that precedes it and signals that “it’s…
America on the Edge of Revolt? Grumblings from the Military Underworld.
The Big Lie, January 6, Proud Boys, Boogaloo Boyz, white supremacists, the Klan, white nativists, militia violence and a supremely radicalized Republican Party. Now America’s military leadership may add momentum…