Wednesday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The results of Stockton, CA’s experiment with a guaranteed income show a predictable improvement in both well-being and economic success for people with…
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Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Slumbering cats.
Bill Kristol – Democrats and the Fight to Preserve American Democracy
Bill Kristol, the arch-neoconservative who, with Robert Kagan, co-founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). Politics, it’s said, makes strange bedfellows and it doesn’t get much stranger than…
The Evangelical Environmentalist
Canadian born, Katherine Hayhoe, doesn’t fit the standard stereotypes. She’s a Christian evangelical and she’s a climate scientist, a Texan to boot. A climate scientist and an evangelical. Those sound…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Rob Gillezeau discusses how public health measures offer better results even in sheer economic terms than allowing an excess of activity which…
Jeebus, Only In America
How many people can you squeeze into a Ford SUV? How about 27? Now, 15 of the 27 are dead after their eight seater SUV ran headlong into a loaded…
CPAC – Cynical Calculation or Mass Psychosis
Grifters and lunatics. Is that what today comprises the Republican Party faithful? Monkeys in shoes. Some trained, some not. All of them gathered in Florida to breathe life into the…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Karl Leffme interviews Jake Lytle about the movement to unionize marijuana-related work in Chicago. And Jay Greene and Eli Rosernberg report on an…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Alex Himelfarb writes about the need to get past obsessing over deficits and taxes when they’re necessary to fund a the society…
They Call It #1 For a Reason
I’ve been riding motorcycles since I was 15. You may have heard the phrase “ride it like you stole it.”I did and I did. That will make this year my…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lauren Krugel reports on a push by Alberta doctors to avoid the further lifting of public health restrictions which will increase the risk…
Musical interlude
Lord Huron – Not Dead Yet
Has a Riot Bloomed Into an Insurrection?
Before volcanoes erupt there’s normally plenty of warning. The volcano goes from dormant to active in stages. Precursors include an increase in the frequency and intensity of earthquakes, steaming or…
"The Hole We’ve Already Dug For Ourselves."
Jason Kenney must be kicking himself for not just hanging around Ottawa to succeed Stephen Harper. His trip to take the reins as premier of Alberta has become a succession…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jason Hickel writes that on a global scale, poverty is the result of inequality and the misallocation of resources rather than underdevelopment. And…
Climate Change – AMOC goes Amuck?
There’s a current known as the Atlantic Ocean circulation that is responsible for the Gulf Stream that, in turn, regulates the weather in Europe and North America. Scientists have worried…
Global Food Security – This Time It’s America’s Corn Belt
It is not easy to keep up with change undermining global food security. Soils degradation is a prime culprit. Some countries, such as large areas of India, have literally worked…
The Leaders’ Dilemma
In most countries, governments and their leaders are facing a worsening dilemma that could, if unresolved, devastate national economies, perhaps for decades. We’re all familiar with the metaphor about the…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Melissa Healy reports on yet another dangerous variant of COVID-19 which is spreading in California. Nicky Phillips writes about the likelihood that the…
But What About Me?
Reading newspapers used to be a lot more enjoyable back before they had to pack existential and quasi-existential crises four or six to a page. If it’s not dysfunctional governance,…