Gun Control – A Not So Modest Proposal
This post will no doubt annoy firearms aficionados – I don’t much care. In the last 2 weeks, the United States has experienced 2 mass shooting events that resulted in…
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Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Aekkachai Tuekprakhon et al. study how the Omicron COVID-19 subvariants are evading both previous immunity and existing treatments. And Zak Vescera reports on…
The Hits Keep Coming
Yesterday, a man picked up a gun and killed 18 students in an elementary school in Texas. This morning a candidate for the leadership of the CPC promised to burn…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Focused cats.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nicola Davis reports on new research showing that the effects of long COVID include sustained damage to organs including the heart, lungs…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – The Associated Press reports on Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s warning that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. Mary Papenfuss discusses how people living…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Irelyne Lavery reports on the increasing number of Canadians needing medical attention for the flu as COVID-related protections have been scrapped. And Wallace…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – William J. Barber and Tope Folarin write that the U.S.’ grim milestone of one million COVID-19 deaths already serves as a searing indictment…
Musical interlude
PVRIS – Old Wounds
Well, Kids, It’s Last Call.
It’s reached the point where it’s hard work to ignore our perilous reality. But our political leaders, bless their hearts, shun it as a vampire does the noonday sun. Jason…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ed Yong discusses how we may have created a “pandemicine” era by fundamentally changing how viruses are able to mutate and spread. The…
Two Days In Alberta Politics
It’s Friday – end of the week, and the last 2 days of politics in Alberta have been a whirlwind … on Wednesday, Kenney said he would step down after…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Pam Belluck reports on a new study showing that people who weren’t initially hospitalized for COVID make up over three-quarters of the…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ross Barkan takes stock of the reality that the U.S. has allowed a million people to die of a disease whose transmission could…
You Don’t Think It’s Really Fascism?
If it’s not from Germany, it’s just sparkling authoritarianism, right? More seriously, way back when I first started this blog (in 2004), I wrote a piece about whether or not…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Slumbering cats.
That Other Virus
I came across an article in The Atlantic about a highly infectious virus that has crossed the Pacific from the US to reach the writer’s home, Australia. It has also…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Xue Cao et al. find that infection with COVID-19 produces accelerated physical aging among its other alarming effects, while Jan Hennigs et…
On historical echoes
Ontario’s ongoing provincial election is presenting some interesting echoes from previous campaigns – particularly the 2015 federal election which similarly involved a seemingly vulnerable Conservative majority, an NDP official opposition…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Mark Kline warns against accepting continuing denialism about the impact of COVID-19 on children. Andre Picard discusses Canada’s grim milestone of 40,000 (reported)…