Review: Reading Across Borders
A lot of Serious People who do Serious Things when it comes to knowledge tend to treat stories and other kinds of experience-based narratives as inherently suspect and not…
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Review: Reading Across Borders
A lot of Serious People who do Serious Things when it comes to knowledge tend to treat stories and other kinds of experience-based narratives as inherently suspect and not terribly…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Owen Jones writes that the oft-repeated message that the public is responsible for the control (or spread) of COVID-19 serves mostly to…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Boxing Day reading. – Kyle Hanniman and Trevor Tombe examine the relative fiscal positions of Canada’s federal and provincial governments – concluding that while there isn’t…
Musical interlude
Gordi – Extraordinary Life
Contextualizing Racism
During the 2019 Alberta Election, a number of UCP candidates were tagged by opposition as having track records of peddling hate. Several of these candidates ended up stepping aside during…
Navigating the Minefield of Short-Termism
Its disappearance went largely unnoticed. There was no post mortem, no eulogy, no deep sighs for what had been lost. Posterity slipped from our consciousness as we ushered in the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – John Klein points out how Doug Ford’s combination of abject failure and laughable deflection in response to the avoidable spread of COVID-19…
Coming Soon – How to Fix the World
What a great present, full online access to the MIT Technology Review year-ender magazine, “The Long Term Issue.” A glance through the index page produced a bevy of terrific articles…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Hibernating cats.
Deja Vu, Anyone?
It’s hard to watch Donald Trump debase himself and whatever legacy he might have achieved through his presidency. It’s a creepy spectacle to watch as he throws away his last…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Katherine Scott and David Macdonald take a look at the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Canada’s labour force survey data –…
There Will Be No Martial Law, No Coup d’Etat. Pentagon Slams the Door on Trump’s Maniacal Delusions.
What used to be the Trump administration has been reduced to a coven of lunacy. He has retreated to his bunker, abandoning the issues of the day – the pandemic,…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Steven Lewis writes about the need for firm and decisive public health action to stop the spread of COVID-19, rather than the excuse-making…
Lou Dobbs Gets His Bottom Spanked
Since he departed CNN for FOX, Lou Dobbs has been a shameless whore for America’s right wingnuts. Now Lou is getting an education in comeuppance. Dobbs has been flogging the…
The Trials of Joe Biden
There’ll be no honeymoon when Joe Biden is inaugurated the 46th president of the United States. The Covid pandemic seems to be taking a nasty turn due to a new…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Luke Savage weighs in on the false promise of tax giveaways to the rich as an economic strategy for anybody else. –…
Musical interlude
Lianne La Havas – Weird Fishes
Who’d a Thunk It?
I saw this old print and it reminded me so much of Erin O’Toole. It depicts a medical procedure in England in centuries past. “By the late 1700s, blowing smoke…
Half a Century of Skillfully Engineered Inequality. Now The Results Are In.
Joe Stiglitz knows a few things about inequality. It was the focus of his doctoral thesis and the mainstay of a career that saw him rise to chief economist for…