Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Don Braid calls out Jason Kenney for allowing his government’s MLAs and officials to gallivant around the world on vacation while demanding…
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Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Daisy Fancourt discusses how general non-compliance with public health orders and recommendations can be traced back to the perception that elites couldn’t be…
Musical interlude
Radical Face – Sunlight
Running Out of Beds Is Only Part of the Problem
With Covid-19 infections surging in several provinces, we’re being warned that hospitals are running out of ICU beds needed to treat severe cases. Some areas could be weeks away from…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your year. – Shawn Micallef highlights how the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the refusal by far too many people to follow a social contract – including…
Happy Birthday to a Fine Gentleman
It’s a huge “happy birthday” to legendary Hull, Que., police detective, Zotique Laframboise. 60 years on and he hasn’t aged a day. If you’re having a WTF moment, there’s some…
Today’s CPC Is Nothing Like Yesterday’s PC Party
Today’s conservatives do not represent what used to be understood as conservative. Especially not anyone who grew up in the 60s and 70s, when the political movement was considerably left…
The Clown Prince Throws Another Hissy
Donald Trump has been angrily blaming his election loss on just about everyone and everything he can imagine. Among his notable whipping boys are former A.G. Bill Barr, the entire…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Fran Quigley interviews Joanne Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox about the entirely feasible steps which could be taken to eliminate poverty in the…
Mystery of the missing macaroni – solved!
What the Hole Is Going On? The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020. Rachel Handler gets to the bottom of the mystery that has been troubling Americans all…
Mystery of the missing macaroni – solved!
What the Hole Is Going On? The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020. Rachel Handler gets to the bottom of the mystery that has been troubling Americans all…
Deep thought
No one could have predicted that somebody’s refusal to accept responsibility for causing another person’s death – and indeed insistence that they’re entitled to avoid any questioning about it –…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Noah Smith examines how even leaving aside such trifling considerations as human welfare, it’s a better economic proposition to provide money to people…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Holiday cats.
Federal Court Judge "It’s Not Surprising a Criminal Like Trump Pardons Other Criminals"
Them’s fightin’ words from Iowa District Court judge, Robert Pratt. Pratt said, “Apparently to get a pardon, one has to be either a Republican, a convicted child murderer or a…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emma Ladds, Alex Rushforth, Sietse Wieringa, Sharon Taylor, Clare Rayner, Laiba Husain and Trisha Greenhalgh study the wade-ranging and severe symptoms resulting…
#Guillotine2020 – Is Celebrity Losing Its Mojo?
Wonderful article in The New York Times about how celebrities are starting to piss people off with their platitudes over the Covid-19 pandemic. The “common man” appeal is losing its…
Match, Meet Gasoline
We’re told the latest variant of the Covid-19 virus isn’t more deadly except that it is much more transmissible. It’s more easily spread. A greater number of people may be…
When Is A Person A TERF?
The short answer is “when they are using TERF arguments to argue against transgender rights and/or treatment issues. The longer answer is more interesting. I got tagged into a Twitter…
The Gomer Effect
He’s been called the “Dumbest Man in Congress” and more than once at that. Texas representative, Louie Ghomert, has filed suit against vice president Mike Pence. Gohmert’s lawsuit against Pence…