Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Christo Aivalis rightly points out that the NDP needs to be a party of labour and fight to ensure workers’ needs are…
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The Stammering Man
You don’t have to be a critic of Justin Trudeau to know he stammers. The disjointed cadence, the constant search for words. He does it, a lot. He does it…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Fluffy cats.
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Stephanie Taylor reports on the Saskatchewan Health Authority’s warning that we can’t afford to loosen the province’s COVID-19 rules – which of…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Paul Krugman notes that hostility toward basic public health protection such as masks represents a stark example of conservatives sacrificing human lives to…
Is This the Event We Were Warned Of?
Two themes are emerging in reports on Covid-19. One is that the Western economies are being hard hit, plunging deep in debt to prop up/avert the collapse of their societies…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Mark Tenforde, Kiva Fisher and Manish Patel study the activities most likely to spread COVID-19 – with restaurants, gyms, bars and churches…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Graeber wrote (just before his death) about the need to do more than default back to an unacceptable “normal” once the COVID-19…
Musical interlude
Spiritbox – Constance
On breaking solidarity
After nearly a year of a declared pandemic (and several months of inaction before that), far too little has changed in Saskatchewan’s political discussion of our response to COVID-19. In…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Kenyon Wallace reports on new modelling showing a real risk of yet another wave of COVID spread in Ontario – even as widespread…
What’s Next?
Humans crave certainty. We want reliable. We want predictable. We pay a premium for that, if we can afford it, and it’s going to become increasingly costly. Like it or…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Laura Spinney writes about the debate as to whether to eliminate COVID-19 or control its continued spread. And Carl Zimmer reports on…
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…
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…