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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Recent events. Netanyahu fails to form a government. In danger of losing office, never a good thing when you’re facing criminal charges. Israel sends forces to surround a mosque in…
One of the most troubling aspects of the neoliberal era is the privatization of scientific research out of the public eye. Taking science in-house, behind the corporate curtain, under the…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Duncan Cameron discusses how right-wing nationalism is contributing to the destruction of our planet and the exploitation of people. Don Braid highlights how…
The headline in Scientific American was jarring. What we must do to prepare for the next pandemic. If this pandemic taught us one thing, it’s that we weren’t ready for…
Slumbering cats.
A bit of salacious gossip from the Guardian. The paper reports that Don Junior’s former missus, Vanessa, and Trump’s almost daughter (by Marla Maples as if that counts), Tiffany, may…
What the hell is it? Is it a tax? Is it a levy? Does it matter? As I read it, they’re talking about a global price on carbon. The idea…
“We kept our country at peace. We never went to war. We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. But still we achieved our international goals.” C’mon, quick.…
Caitlin Johnstone is a self-described “rogue journalist” from Australia. She’s fiercely critical of the United States, too much for my taste, and almost as hard on matters cultural and artistic.…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Marcin Osuchowski et al. highlight the importance of updating our understanding of COVID-19 rather than presuming it behaves the same way as previously-studied…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Zeynep Tufecki writes about the deadly delay in recognizing the reality that COVID-19 spreads largely through aerosol transmission. Elliot Hannon reports on…
On Face the Nation this morning, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Il, wasn’t pulling any punches: “Right now, it’s basically the Titanic. We’re like, you know, in this in the middle of…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Graham points out that what’s being labeled “vaccine hesitancy” reflects little more than abject denial about the realities of a deadly disease.…
First it was 23&Me. Then it was Ancestry.ca. Then came MyTrueAncestry.com. All of which prove that before you go snooping, realize it’s not all going to be unicorns and princesses.…
Wide Mouth Mason – Erase Any Trace
